Give the HK USP Compact a try. I'm really liking it. The grip is very comfortable, although I'd say a tad thin for my hands and I prefer Glocks. Those with smaller hands will probably find that the USP Compact fits them well.

Im one of the folks who do not shoot Glocks very well because they don't fit my hand.Give the HK USP Compact a try. I'm really liking it. The grip is very comfortable, although I'd say a tad thin for my hands and I prefer Glocks. Those with smaller hands will probably find that the USP Compact fits them well.
For me it is not the "thickness" but the "front to back" dimension along with the squared grip. Most designs in the last 20 years have realized a curved design feels and shoots best. Glock refuses to acknowledge this.I think a lot of it is mental and personal perception.
Ive had a lot of people tell me the Glocks grip is too fat, and they preferred their 1911's. Yet when I got the calipers out, the Glock actually had a thinner grip. Go figure. I think a lot of it is in the head though. People believe what they hear before they even have something in their hand to make a valid decision and/or opinion. Once the bias is set, it can be hard to get beyond, especially for those who dont have an open mind, and/or are set in their ways.
Must be a perception thing. I have had all but the CZ's, and I have Glocks, and never noticed a difference.My idea of a ergonomically designed auto pistol is a Browning Hi Power, CZ-75, Sig P226, or Sig P220 SAO with the beaver tail grip.
Preach it Brother.... :thumb:I shoot a fair amount of DA revolvers as well, mostly S&W's. Ive never found them to be an issue, grip or otherwise. I actually shoot them better than most of the autos Ive owned.
I think a lot of the problem with the revolvers is, were a good way from the revolver era, and I think a lot of people arent really familiar with them, and really dont know how to shoot them. Once you get used to that DA trigger and shoot them DAO, the whole world changes, and youre shooting will improve with pretty much anything you shoot. It will also cure any trigger phobic issues you have.
They marketed a super reliably performing and revolutionary product at a price nobody could compete with. And designed a deliberate marketing strategy to fill the majority of US LEO holsters with that gun. They out-hustled every other manufacturer for majority share of that police market during the decade after the Glock 17's US introduction in 1985.To read comments sometimes on this board, you'd think nobody buys Glocks because they have all of these assorted issues, yet somehow they're an industry leader, if not THE industry leader. Wonder how that happened?
im not so sure that is true, you speak of the ones the US military has ordered, but thats just from the US military from one supplier, 1911s are made by about 50 different companies and if you compiled the amounts sold by all those companies the total of 1911 pistols out there would far surpass glock, available from only one companyBesides Glock, every gun you just named I like and have owned...or still own today. All very significant designs.
But in terms of sheer world-wide distribution, none of them come close to Glock. Conservative production numbers are on the order of 12+ million units with more than one million new production Glocks added each year.
The US military only ordered 2.7 million 1911s across the entire 106 years of it's use by American forces (still in service). I absolutely love 1911s, but Glock has quadrupled those numbers in only 35 years.
I don't love Glocks, but I respect them for the dependable tools they are. Love it or not, it's currently the most numerically dominant pistol design on the planet. Not bad for a model whose most salient features were borrowed from other designs and makers. But to give them credit, Glock put it all together in a package that sells like hotcakes to this day.
I believe that figure is purely for reportable US production by Glock USA. Glock has several additional regional subsidiaries pumping out guns for the global market.according to a 2014 production report by the BATFE, in 2014 glock was producing 250,000 pistols per year,