Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire This is why I carry a gun I can fight with.

That would be an awesome dedicated house gun.

I've got barrels for the long slide in 9mm, 357 Sig, and 40SW.

The 357 Sig, and the 40SW run with the Glock factory spring. The 9mm runs with a 14lb Wolff spring.


Most of the time I have it set up in 9mm.

There’s more good nines than you can swing a dead cat at.

The Glock 19x is a great all around house/carry gun.

Sigs P365 XMacro is my favorite carry gun and is tailor made for CC with a dot.

The FN 509 Tactical is a great out of the box gun for running a can on.

Is that a rubber sleeve?

Yes, it's a Hogue Handall grip sleeve.

No finger grooves under the sleeve?

Hoge has really upped their product line. This one is the original 'universal' grip sleeve,

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1151613089?pid=662386

No, it's a Gen2 frame.

Okay thanks.


I am not too familiar with Glocks.

Gen3 and Gen4 have the finger grooves.

I don't really care for them myself, have them on a Gen4 Glock 19.

17 and 34 are both great guns, 34 has a slightly longer site picture than the 17.

Yeah because carrying it is inconceivable.

Don't forget the 47 and 45.

Not inconceivable, but sitting down might be a trick.

Sure.

WOW! thought this thread would've gone off the rails by now & a few fuqkfaces have tried. But it just keeps getting better. A lot of honest, common sense insight on the matter of a personal fighting handgun.

Mackay S. still layin it down & not faltering. Enjoy the non narcissistic way of presenting common sense & logic, along with excellent troubleshooting skills.

Yep. What Jonny Gin Blossom thinks he is

I have carried one IWB for a long time, including working protection details using my G34.

I can't see how carrying a 5" 1911 is totally fine, but carrying a Glock 34 "Might be a trick'

Here is a little "Theory vs reality"

What people think might be a trick, vs people who carry them and know, is that a G34 and a 1911 are actually virtually identical in size as you can see here:



And a 1911 with 9 rounds of 45 weighs 2 pounds 15 ounces total, as shown below:




versus a Glock 34 9mm.

Shown in this pic with two, 21 round ETS mags +1 for the chamber for a total of 43 rounds and it weighs 2 pounds 14 ounces.




You end up weighing less than the 1911, and having 34 more rounds on board, using the old ETS mags. That said I just use those for practice these days.



Using Glock factory mags instead, I lose a single round overall. 42 rounds instead of 43.

These days I use a Glock factory 17 round mag as a primary, and a Glock factory 24 round mag as a reload, plus one in the pipe, for a total of 42 rounds.

The Glock weighs substantially less obviously and is the same size. With a spare extended magazine you end up with 33 round advantage over the 1911 (9 rounds of .45 vs 42 rounds of 9mm). 

No trick at all.



Plus the G34 is probably the easiest gun there is to shoot well when it comes to iron sighted 9mms. It is an incredibly easy gun to shoot fast and accurately with. There is a very good reason why the gun is such a dominant force in the action shooting sports, when talking about non RDO equipped guns.

Nice reality check there between the 1911 and G34.