Have you rented one yet? Rented any other brands?
I personally can't stand the Glock mush trigger and goofy grip angle...and yes I had one.
While I haven't done it in the last couple months, I've shot Glocks several times before. I like them, but I will never love them. They are decent, functional guns. I've been a 1911 and revolver guy, I'm used to guns that "speak" to me in a way Glocks haven't. Still, I have always had them on my list, I've handled them just about every time I've been on the market, and rented them several times. The past few years I've picked up a SIG P290RS, a SIG P250C, and a Kel-tec Pf-9 (the .45ACP P250c is what's IWB on me right now). I've long had a Taurus PT140 M. Pro. So, while I still like guns that "speak" to me, I have come to appreciate guns whose only virtues are functional (i.e. accurate, reliable, well built, and well designed for their intended purposes), which is an area where Glock undeniably excels. I figured if I'm looking at other polymer pistols (P250SC) and especially other striker fired polymer pistols (S&W M&Psc), I may as well seriously consider the Glock. Once I did start seriously considering it, it just seemed to make a lot of sense.
It's hard choosing between the G19/G23 and G26/G27 sizes.
Quentin, you can say that again.
I have two guns that are very close in size (my Taurus PT140 M. Pro and my SIG P250c), and I'm still having trouble deciding (both are several ounces off in weight from the comparable Glocks however). I find both are concealable, but the Taurus is much easier to conceal while still holding a reasonable 10+1 rounds of .40S&W and still being a decent size at the range. However, the SIG does work for CCW, and it is a much better size at the range and living in MD where there is no shall issue, and thus I only carry when out of state, I find I use it much more at the range, or I carry in the house where concealment doesn't matter.
So, I keep going back and forth.
Since I can't CCW full-time, I never really get used to carrying and even with my J-frames, Pf-9, or SIG P290, I feel like everyone knows I'm carrying. I recently decided that if I'm never going to become 100% comfortable with carrying and always feel a bit conspicuous, I may as well go with a larger gun (I
know I'm well concealed no matter how conspicuous I feel) and get more capacity. Since I don't carry all day every day, a little more weight means more controllable follow-up shots more than it means I'll leave it home. So, I may as well go with a larger gun (this is my thinking with either choice since until fairly recently I was carrying smaller guns exclusively). The G23 is definitely well within that thinking.
However, looking at my P250c and PT140, there are times that a smaller gun (though larger than the small single stacks and J-frames I was carrying) will be a
lot easier to carry. Since I carry IWB, the shorter PT140 is much more comfortable and the shorter butt lets me carry it a little further back without printing. The G27 will be decidedly larger than what I was carrying most of the time (my P290 or Taurus 85CH), it will still hold 10 rounds (9+1) of .40S&W and I can carry 13 or 15 round mags for reloads. If I lived in a shall-issue state and carried full-time I would definitely go this way, and there is a slim chance I may be moving to Philly next year (though a larger chance I'll be moving to Northern NJ with just as small a chance of ever getting shall-issue on the books as here in MD).
I thought I was going to go the G23 direction once I saw the one for so much less than a G27, but I really do want the G27. If money was no issue I'd just buy both, but if money was no issue I'd be buying the SIG P224 and P229 for this role instead of the Glock (and I'm also buying another revolver in the next month or two as well so I
really can't just buy both).
