Originally Posted by
mattpittinger
How do you respond to the question "Why is the M&P better than a Glock?
In line with what Todd says, I'd be shooting a Glock if the .45 variants fit my hands; too fat + grip angle issues = I don't shoot them well. Even bearing in mind that I'm not overjoyed with how my hands fit them, if I could shoot them better than anything else, I'd own one.
That said, when asked, I don't have anything bad to say about Glock/XD/M&P, but that I've tried them all and found that I was more accurate with the M&P .45 (so far as THAT goes ), and more comfortably, than with any of the others. Now that I have a choice of what sidearm to use, I went with what works best for me, and not for the middle of the bell curve of the military population.
All references I may make to cons/limitations/problems are all couched in terms of the relationship between the platform and my ability to shoot it with reasonable accuracy, reasonable comfort, and what I define as my view of resonable cost (.45 usually ain't cheap, but I'm still only buying 2 calibers between 2 pistols and what will be 2 rifles, eventually).
There's tons of places in the N. VA area for folks to rent handguns and shoot them, and I tell those that ask that they don't have a hair on their ass if they don't try out 5 or 6 different handguns and figure it out for themselves. Maybe 2 of 10 actually take that tack, because people in our instant-gratification society are generally too mentally lazy to differentiate between informed guidance and recommendation.
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