It seems there isn't a month that goes by that there isn't a new "Glock Killer"
But how many have come and gone? How many had potential, hype, buy me, try me, best thing that ever was … only to cavitate into anonymity or implode around the hype?
I came out of a post SIG phase in carrying CZ PCR 2008-ish and bought into the M&P 1.0 hype-train … only to watch that spiral into trigger, barrel accuracy issues, etc. It wasn't platform ending or as bad as, say, the P320 drop snafu, but it really seemed to put the brakes on its adoption.
The list of challnegers is long and while the Glock may not intrinsically be perfect it reigns to this day … and I don't expect that is likely to change.
In no particular order and likely missing many:
S&W SW99
Walther P99
HK VP9
Canik TP9
P250
P320
PPQ/PPQ M2
Caracal
Steyr M9
Beretta APX
CZ P07
XD/XDM
FN FNS
FN 509
(Whats missing?)
I was part of the run-around looking for the rightful heir … and there have been many rallying cries among industry celebs/experts to the new form-factor (and for poptentially a number of reasons: philosophical, economic, emotional, etc). Even here at nailed-down M4C … amongst many of the most admired members and SMEs … the M&P9, the CZ P07, HK VP9 and now the M&P 2.0 and CZ P10C.
So, as we now stand looking at the Glock/S&W/CZ contenders duking it out again … is either of the contenders really capable of dethroning the Glock?
What will it really take?
Can it be done with 'same-as' pricing?
How much better will it really have to be?
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