I've been looking at getting either a M&P 9C or a Glock 19 for CCW and am having trouble deciding which one to go with and am looking for thoughts and suggestions.
I don't know any place around here where I can rent or shoot either gun, so about all I can do is handle both and see what I like better. Ive shot other glocks before, and I generally like them. I own an old surplus police Glock 22 second gen, which I like, but seems tough to conceal well with that big grip, especialy in summer months in the Deep South where I live.
I had a Glock 23 before, and I liked the size overall fairly well, but it seemed pretty snappy with full strength .40 self defense loads, so I sold it. I didnt carry it much anyways because it just seemed a bit too boxy for easy concealed carry, but then I probably didnt have the best holster for it and that may have been alot of the problem.
Meanwhile, I was at a shooting match yesterday, turning in a mediocre marksman performance with my old second generation Glock 22 and lamenting the fact that the best concealed carry pistol I own these days is probably my trust J frame smith and wesson .38 revolver. I love my little J frame, it conceals great, I just want more than 5 shots.
Then at the match yesterday I saw a suprisingly fine looking woman shooting the M&P 9C and making it look good. Although her shapely legs were part of the attraction too, I couldnt keep my eyes off that M&P 9C when she was shooting it. I would have tried to work up the nerve to ask her if she'd let me handle and shoot her pistol, but she and her husband (an intimidating master class 1911 guy) had to leave before I had the balls to ask her. Fortunate for me, my dimwitted double cousin Lary was there with his full size M&P .40 for me to shoot as a poor consolation - but I found that I liked shooting the M&P better than my Glock 22 and actually shot it better too.
(FWIW, I say double cousin because Lary's beautiful mother, my first cousin Sara, whose just a few years older than me, ended up getting pregnant with him when she was barely sixteen by our older idiot cousin Mack who I think was thirtysomething at the time. Mack made poor Sara into the chainsmoking nervous wreck she is today, then he ended up dying in a drunk driving accident a few years later; so Ive often times ended up spending time with little Lary like hes my kid brother, since hes only about twelve years younger than me. Now Lary is in his early twenties and working as an armed security guard and issued the M&P .40 that he let me shoot yesterday)
Double cousin drama asside, I was really impressed with that full sized M&P .40 and how well it shot, and would imagine the M&P 9C would be a good shooter too.
Ive heard there are reliability issues with 4th Gen 9mm Glocks - extractor issues, recoil spring issues, etc - and thats sorta disconcerting. I can't seem to find any 3rd Gen Glock 19s around here to buy, just 4th Gen and I think I rather like the slightly smaller size of the M&P 9C for concealment purposes.
But I don't know which way to go and would love to hear recomendations from people who have shot or owned either a Glock 19 4th Generation or the M&P 9C. Thanks.
I don't know any place around here where I can rent or shoot either gun, so about all I can do is handle both and see what I like better. Ive shot other glocks before, and I generally like them. I own an old surplus police Glock 22 second gen, which I like, but seems tough to conceal well with that big grip, especialy in summer months in the Deep South where I live.
I had a Glock 23 before, and I liked the size overall fairly well, but it seemed pretty snappy with full strength .40 self defense loads, so I sold it. I didnt carry it much anyways because it just seemed a bit too boxy for easy concealed carry, but then I probably didnt have the best holster for it and that may have been alot of the problem.
Meanwhile, I was at a shooting match yesterday, turning in a mediocre marksman performance with my old second generation Glock 22 and lamenting the fact that the best concealed carry pistol I own these days is probably my trust J frame smith and wesson .38 revolver. I love my little J frame, it conceals great, I just want more than 5 shots.
Then at the match yesterday I saw a suprisingly fine looking woman shooting the M&P 9C and making it look good. Although her shapely legs were part of the attraction too, I couldnt keep my eyes off that M&P 9C when she was shooting it. I would have tried to work up the nerve to ask her if she'd let me handle and shoot her pistol, but she and her husband (an intimidating master class 1911 guy) had to leave before I had the balls to ask her. Fortunate for me, my dimwitted double cousin Lary was there with his full size M&P .40 for me to shoot as a poor consolation - but I found that I liked shooting the M&P better than my Glock 22 and actually shot it better too.
(FWIW, I say double cousin because Lary's beautiful mother, my first cousin Sara, whose just a few years older than me, ended up getting pregnant with him when she was barely sixteen by our older idiot cousin Mack who I think was thirtysomething at the time. Mack made poor Sara into the chainsmoking nervous wreck she is today, then he ended up dying in a drunk driving accident a few years later; so Ive often times ended up spending time with little Lary like hes my kid brother, since hes only about twelve years younger than me. Now Lary is in his early twenties and working as an armed security guard and issued the M&P .40 that he let me shoot yesterday)
Double cousin drama asside, I was really impressed with that full sized M&P .40 and how well it shot, and would imagine the M&P 9C would be a good shooter too.
Ive heard there are reliability issues with 4th Gen 9mm Glocks - extractor issues, recoil spring issues, etc - and thats sorta disconcerting. I can't seem to find any 3rd Gen Glock 19s around here to buy, just 4th Gen and I think I rather like the slightly smaller size of the M&P 9C for concealment purposes.
But I don't know which way to go and would love to hear recomendations from people who have shot or owned either a Glock 19 4th Generation or the M&P 9C. Thanks.