Left handed too… but never found a weapon I liked that worked, so I just learned to reload/shoot right handed just as fast as my left. 
Just trolling…
(I doubt I could even operate a gun-shaped cigarette lighter).
To me it just felt- right. If it means anything.
Admittedly I possess no sausage finger.
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Being a medic in the military, i only ever shot the Steyr AUG during 4 practice sessions in basic training and the rest was a 3rd gen Glock 17.
I did get commanded off as medic of the day to a lot of my battalions other weapon training sessions. Steyr MG 74, Carl Gustav (that one is scary), Browning M2 and the Oerlikon 66 20mm AFV cannon. Having nothing better to do, they always made me load the belts for the Oerlikon.
I understand that feeling 
I can’t remember why it was present, but that’s how I felt first time I shot with a Beretta 92. With the exception of the 1911, nothing I’d shot before had made that much of a positive impression.
I carry a Ruger SR 9mm. My last resort weapon is a S&W SD9VE. Wretched, AWFUL trigger on the S&W and that’s after I had a gunsmith change out the stock trigger with an Apex Tactical. Easily the worst gun I’ve ever bought, but I never sell a gun. I might not use it, but I never sell it. Not one stovepipe out of the S&W, though. Very reliable, but the trigger doesn’t encourage you to get good with the gun. The Ruger, on the other hand, is handily the best I’ve ever encountered.
I’ve had very poor luck with my Taurus PT140 Gen 2. I’ve got a 12 year old Gen 1, so I felt confident I was getting a good pistol.
Long story short, they’ve had a design fault with their mag catch that isnt long enough and the recoil causes the mag to slip out. This fault can be traced back to 2009 or so.
I’ve thought of the Sig 320 (.40cal) but am weary after your post. So my interest is now in the XD Mod 2.
Hey @Magnum50, call Sig and tell them that you need the new extractor spring. That is suppose to fix to failure to extract issues.
Thx, will do… after another test my next step was to deal with the manufacture
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Chuck, the other option is to send them your gun and let them do the work. That way if they see anything else that need tweaking it will be in their hands. With Glock, I can just drive over to Smyrna and had my pistol to an armorer to resolve any issues. But, with Sig, they have pretty good customer service and they will send you a FedEx label. So take advantage of that.
I’m confident that Sig will work out any issues with the P320 and it will be a happy ending for the Army. At least the P320 is not exactly a new pistol. and they have a few years of data to draw on.
I was surprised when they didn’t chose the Glock though, with its 35 years of development, current US production capacity, ease of maintenance, and history with various LEO organizations and spec ops communities. Sure, it’s not exactly modular, but a lot of parts are the same, like the same mags compatible with the G26, G17, G19, and G34. Parts are available all over the world. Yada, yada, yada.
Looks like the USAF and MARSOC are going with Glock.
Ya, not a Glock fan myself, but your points are correct… my info says it was all political the choice.
Not just MARSOC, but SOCOM and other units as well. The Glock 19 is hard to beat.
If I had to guess, probably the reason why Glock wasn’t selected was the method of taking it apart. I’m certain a few bureaucrats lost their minds over having to pull the trigger to disassemble it.
What I can’t understand is ever wanting to do any sort of maintenance without making the firearm safe, which means ejecting the magazine, visually and/or physically checking the chamber, then decocking the hammer or pulling the trigger with the pistol pointed in a safe direction. Who would pickup a firearm and not clear it? Oh yeah, a lawmaker. Perhaps it was modularity.
I know the Glock is popular, but it never resonated with me.
This. Once the gun is uncocked, you just pull the sled back slightly so the sled release is unloaded, push the sled release and slide the sled forward.
In the army you factor in the lowest common idiot.
At some point, there will be a ND with a glock
And this doesn’t happen with other handguns because of…?
Yeah, if I can train my 3 year olds to poop in a toilet, one would think that even a monkey could be trained to eject a mag and do a chamber check before moving the trigger to the rear position. Then again, my 3 year olds have NDs once in a while 
Good news is… it jammed again on the 2nd round today, but then after that 48 rounds more not a jam… and shot nice, center mass, nice and tight… I really like the weapon, smaller of all my .45’s easy to carry and conceal because of smooth lines… BUT… with even 1 jam today and all those jams Tuesday, don’t feel comfortable yet on carrying it for my protection. Maybe it just needed a proper breaking in thou.
Thats what i told my wife before i married her
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