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02-06-2011 | 10:11 PM
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Springfield XD .45
http://www.springfield-armory.com/xd.php?version=136
or
Glock 21
http://www.glock.com/english/glock21.htm
Income tax is coming and I want to upgrade from a 380 to .45 APC. I am looking at these two for price and the double stack 13 round mags they come with. Does anyone have any good reason one is better than the other. Ive fired the XD many times and like it, but don't want to get it simply because a friend has it.
What I am looking for:
Stopping power- .45 APC with some hydro-shock = got that covered with each
Reliability- if I need it, it better freaking work.
http://www.springfield-armory.com/xd.php?version=136
or
Glock 21
http://www.glock.com/english/glock21.htm
Income tax is coming and I want to upgrade from a 380 to .45 APC. I am looking at these two for price and the double stack 13 round mags they come with. Does anyone have any good reason one is better than the other. Ive fired the XD many times and like it, but don't want to get it simply because a friend has it.
What I am looking for:
Stopping power- .45 APC with some hydro-shock = got that covered with each
Reliability- if I need it, it better freaking work.
02-06-2011 | 10:13 PM
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G21. Springfield grip safety is a liability if you're being charged at. All they need to do is push down on the slide and your grip safety will disengage. Try it. Ask the gun shop employee to do it.
02-06-2011 | 11:44 PM
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02-07-2011 | 01:35 PM
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One reason I went with Glock over the XD because the grip safety is just one more thing to go wrong at the worst possible moment. You can limp-wrist and almost-not-grip a Glock, and as long as you can get the trigger back it's going bang.
02-07-2011 | 08:38 PM
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A Glock is like holding a 2x4 if you don't have a least size 8 hands. If you have smaller hands, talk to the shop owner about one of the newer types of pistols with interchangeable backstraps . . . or just get a 1911 from a good name manufacturer 
02-07-2011 | 08:46 PM
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I actually do have decent sized hands. The bersa is waayyyyy to small for me, heh. I'm not totally ruling other weapons out, but I like the reliability of the poly weapons and their magazine capacity using a .45 round. There is also a short frame version of the 21 that has the same 13 round capability. I need to go mess with them.
1911s have that grip safety like an XD. I like the colt I fired sometime ago, but it wasn't stock. The big name versions are over my budget as well.
1911s have that grip safety like an XD. I like the colt I fired sometime ago, but it wasn't stock. The big name versions are over my budget as well.