Everybody is a Glock cover band now
Everybody is a Glock cover band now
I am not sure I am understanding all the hate towards this. Diversity is always good, not everyone likes Glock. I personally miss my FNP-9 that I had. It ran flawlessly through thousands of rounds, and felt way better to me than any glock I have ever fired. If this can work reliably and have similar accuracy to a Glock 19, I would give it serious consideration.
I miss my FNP-9. Stupid CA, can't buy a replacement.
I used to have a FNP-9 myself...great handgun. FN makes solid products all around that just flat out work.
If this is about the size of the FNS, which is what the specs say, it's in between G17 and G19 sizes, based on both specified dimensions and my regular handling of the G17, G19 and FNS. Glock shoehorns a lot into compact packages, and other than Kahr no one else really manages the same. Sig's P320 seems to have similar size brackets to Glock (very large, just right, small, really small), but others mostly seem to do moderately large and moderately small.
I will argue the point here; the HK VP9 is dramatically more accurate than any Glock I have ever fired and is every bit as reliable. So I would say based on my experience, which I would think is considerable by anyone's standards, some pistols do offer more than a Glock. I am a fan of Glock pistols ( hence why 15,000 have been sold with my name attached to them) but I also call it as I see it. Glocks are the most popular pistols in the world but to insinuate they are the only good pistol or nothing else offers anything as good or better is simply not true.
If accuracy is the only measure of performance, then there are better performing gun. There are probably better performing guns even if we consider accuracy and reliability. What keeps me (and I suspect many others) coming back to the Glock is:
1) How the Glock, and particularly the G19, efficiently uses its size as illustrated by the pictures that Molon posted here: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...o-the-Glock-19
That is to say, most average shooters will barely notice the accuracy and reliability superiority of the VP9, but even marginal shooters will notice the ~1/2" length difference on the grips between the 2 guns when carrying them concealed.
2) The wide market support for the Glock. Glock has a series of 9mm pistols in a massive range of sizes that default to a standard G17 magazine. Moreover, I once saw G17 mags at the Ace Hardware in Emerald Isle, NC. The fact that non-gun stores carry Glock parts tells you something about market support.
This new offering from FN will likely fall into the crowd of pistols that is arguably more reliable or accurate than the glock, but not enough to overwhelm points 1 and 2.
Last edited by Sensei; 04-18-17 at 23:25.
I like my rifles like my women - short, light, fast, brown, and suppressed.
Anything as good as or better than the original? How about ergonomics. Glocks are just uncomfortable to many shooters. Insofar as an entire cottage industry has emerged to improve Glock ergonomics. While I can shoot a stock Glock, I can shoot a Glock with an undercut, grooves removed, and stippled much better. Extended mag release and slide stops help me as well.
Many of the "Glock cover bands" as you call them, don't need such work. It saves the end-user time and money. It's becoming obvious with the new generation of striker-fired pistols are looking more and more similar as they become refined...such as PPQ, VP9, this new FN, the new Beretta, etc.
Glock is far from perfect but they are the golden standard and standby. I shoot and carry Glock; in part because I'm already invested in them. Glock guys are starting to sound like 1911 guys that spoke against Glock years ago.
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