Glock 42 Vs Glock 19 - Well, first let me say that I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. It's been a busy couple of weeks for me, but at least we had a chance to hit the range and break into one of my significant other's Christmas presents.
Enter the Glock 42. I know this thing has been around for a while and a review of another .380, the Beretta Nano, would probably be a little more helpful for first time users, but I also know that before I bought it, I was thing and every data point counts.
Glock 42 Vs Glock 19
Straight to the point: Why the Glock 42? Anyone who personally knows the end user we have in mind will know that she has small hands. SMALL. She's also really liked Glock pistols since she was introduced to them - light weight, balance, easy handling, easy to use scopes, all of which allow her to shoot more accurately (mainly because she really enjoys practicing with it) than almost everything else we have except the trick Kimber Custom Target II. The problem is that Glocks are fat. Her shooting was decent, despite her size not being able to properly grip any Glock she tried. Such a small radius to avoid the grip and hoping to get it down to a small enough diameter to get her hands on would always end up with a substandard group because she would have to reach for the trigger or a bruised right thumb joint from the wrong grip. The Glock 42 mostly solved these problems.
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First, it's small, not exactly Colt Mustang Pocketlite / Ruger LCP / Beretta Pico small, but compared to most subcompacts, this thing is a real mouse gun. More importantly, it's thin, especially for a Glock. This means shooters who might be challenged by palm size get the right grip, which is exactly what we've gone for here. Now there are positives and negatives to this - while it fits her small hands perfectly, she still has the same issue with the length of the less compact grip, even her little finger hanging off a bit. However, this is easily remedied. Another thing I noticed was that with a proper thumb-forward grip, this thing dug into my paws so hard that I had to make a conscious effort not to hold the slide release. But it wasn't a problem when shooting one-handed with a strong or weak hand, and this thing was a joy to shoot one-handed - it would have been a great support.
In terms of functionality - quite impressive. It's not *completely* broken yet, as we only put 200 rounds through it for our first test. We used 100 rounds of Aguila 95gr. FMJ as a beginner and 100 rounds of cheap academy picked up a Monarch 94gr. FMJ to see how low we could go with ammo quality (while still sticking with factory loads). In a 200-round hack, we had a single FTF of about 40 rounds into the fluffy and dirty stuff of the Monarch, which was significantly weaker than the Aguila. For a short .380, this thing came together very well, on par with other compact Glocks. One small flaw, the 6 round magazines - it is a bit difficult to get the rear magazine in as the .380 rounds are short to the point where the lower magazine sinks forward instead of being pushed down, requiring some effort on the rear. Because of the magazine difference here, the standard Glock speedloader (or SLINO, if that's how you feel about it) doesn't work, and they don't have one for the 42 yet. But that's a practice/training issue, more than anything else.
Mechanically, this thing is just a standard Glock, but scaled down. Not much to say here - disassembly is the same as any other Gen4 Glock. One note on this – even though the 42 uses Gen4 features, it is technically (at least according to the Glock rep I spoke with) first generation, as this is a new pistol. Anyway... built with Gen4 features, I'll still call it Gen4.
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