Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns New Magazine A Game Changer For The Glock 43X and 48

Yeah, they finally released them not too long ago and promptly sold out. They spent a good bit of time on R&D first. Looks to be a good product.

I’m waiting for some confirmation on how well they work. If they end up being just as reliable as the factory mags I believe the G48 will become my EDC.

Yep.

But, but, I thought Glocks were "Perfection"?????

You can always use more capacity.

I just recently got to handle a 43x and a 48. If they bring one of these out with RM R ready slide, I may just have to finally become a Glockster. 15 rounds...13 rounds...I don't care.

Being a total left brained analyst I made up a spreadsheet to compare various dimensions for a new carry gun. These forums don't format columns well but fwiw:

Firearm | Capacity | Barrel" | Length" | Height" | Width" | Slide Width" | Sight Radius" | Weight Unloaded
G19 | 15 | 4.02 | 7.28 | 5 | 1.34 | 1 | 6.02 | 21.52

G48 | 10 | 4.17 | 7.28 | 5.04 | 1.1 | 0.087 | 5.98 | 18.48

P365 | 10 | 3.1 | 5.8 | 4.1 | 1 | .9 | 4.9 | 17.8

P365XL | 12 | 3.7 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 1.1 | .9 | 5.6 | 20.7

I only showed the standard magazines, obviously the G19 can be equipped with larger mags, the G48 now with a 15 round mag and the Sigs both have 12 and 15 round mags available that increase the overall height.

And the 43X is even mo betta for CCW!

Relegates the G26 to nightstand duty.

I've always thought that Glock had a certain reason for making the 48 only a 10rd gun. Between that and the 4.2" barrel it was legal for sale in Canada and also optimal for those poor states that have 10rd magazine limits. It isn't that they couldn't have had higher capacity, they just didn't want it.

Wow, the slide on the G48 is really narrow

if only the G43 had been as accurate as my P365, I would have kept it!

The P365 is an excellent pistol which already has a reliable 15 rd magazine

I like Glocks. I really like my 48. One of these mags wouldn't be everyday for me but I'll have me one, or 2 !

edit: Thanks TRH, for the heads up !

Oops, ya got me! The chamber is bigger than the exterior of the slide, they must have been working with the makers of the Tardis.

Okay, make that .87".

WTF?.....it's a 1" wide, compact carry pistol

Yeah, it would never occur to me to put an electronic sight on one of these.

There is a company milling these for the RMR, but they have to add an adapter plate, as the footprint of the optic is too wide for the slide.

Funny thing.
Several years ago in a thread of dream guns, I wished for a staggered,
all metal mag Glock. 9mm, with a 9mm dedicated slide. Like a
G36 is lightened too much for 10mm.

So, in my dream gun, I have a lighter, thinner, G19. A grip similar
to a CZ-75 or a Hi-Power. With 12 or more rounds.

TRH, among others explained that Glocks were already light and thin.
And it wasn't a viable idea.

I was fondling a 48 the other day. Thinking, if these mags prove out,
it would be a dandy gun. And that the idea was so obvious, it should have been done 20 years ago.

Just put in my order at Buds for an all black 43X (yes, you can get them all black now) with Ameriglo night sights. I'll be ordering four or five of the 15 round mags as soon as they catch up with demand, along with the metal mag catch. Should be the ideal concealed carry 9mm.