Why does everyone love Glocks so much?

Airsoft-Ed said:
I have one because they suit the British Army load out, when I bought it I was a very firm Sig P226 fan - because their ergonomics are amazing, all the features you'd want are all within reach of your thumb without you needing to shift your grip.

However, I was sold on the Glock almost immediately because of more or less one thing.

The grip angle.

Before handling a Glock this was never something I'd given any thought to, but holding one made me realise it's quite an important feature.

The Glock has a pretty darn steeply angled pistol grip, traditionally pistols are a lot more upright.

My hand just suits the Glock angle a lot better, with Sigs and M1911s I find myself pointing the muzzle down a little because my hand and wrist wants to relax a little.

The Glock is just natural point and shoot. Suits me perfectly.

Moving on from that though, they're so simplistic. Function over form, keep it simple stupid etc.

That's the Glock mentality I think.

There's no safety, decocker, trigger's single action only. Makes the mechanism a lot simpler, fewer parts means fewer things to go wrong, easier to fix when they do, ease of use and popularity make parts easy to find.

They're just great lol, I love the look too, personally.

For all the people saying the grip is small, have you tried the larger back straps on the Gen4?
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When I hold a glock, it points up a little for me instead. So yea grip angle matters.

I read somewhere that the glock is not like by some SF because of this - when you hold it too firmly (due to stress) it naturally points high. The book was quite old though, so views may have changed.

 
I'm a fan of simple designs. I like really clean, minimalistic products, so naturally I like the look of Glocks- I haven't gotten round to buying one yet, however I have quite big hands so some models don't feel natural enough for me.

I was looking at a G18 for the versatility of both semi and fully auto, so the natural sidestep for a full size select-fire pistol is the M93 Raffica- the M92Fs crazy burst firing brother.

I'd rather choose the KWA M93R because my wallet will hurt a lot less, despite costing more there are less external mods and parts i would end up going crazy with :D

 
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