Glock fanboy
I’ve heard a variety of reasons why a Glock is better than X (X = someone’s sacred cow). Capacity, reliability, cost, etc. But I’ve never heard anyone say that it had a better grip angle. Until now.
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March 9th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Hate to break this to you unc but this has been discussed by glock fanboys and glock hater for many many years…. I actually it even further canted then the glock provides…
March 9th, 2012 at 11:24 am
A researcher/trainer I know that has done a lot of research into the human physiological response to high stress situations, focusing on close-range pistol combat.
If you put your arm out at full extension with your wrist naturally pronated, you’re looking at much, much more than at 11 or 17 degree angle. Theoretically, the greater the grip angle, the better a handgun should pass recoil up the arm instead of translating it into muzzle flip. A gun with 30+ degree angle should be more natural.
So why aren’t we seeing them? Is it an engineering issue, one of tradition, or is there some other factor in play?
March 9th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
From a comment after the artical, “Sometimes it really IS the Indian and not the arrow”
March 9th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
You’ve really never heard this? When I was first learning about guns over ten years ago and making my first purchases, grip angle was something the guy behind the counter pointed me toward.
March 9th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Meh! Fly$hit in the pepper.
March 9th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
So let’s all just buy Lugers and Ruger .22s and move on back to Point Shooting. Those Tritium Night Sights are expensive!
March 9th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I went with Glock incase there was another magazine ban.
I have a 26, a, 17L, and a Sub-2000, and a big pile of mags to run in all of them.
Also I have a set of scars on the web of my hand (from a .32 Alley Cat) that annoy me when I shoot a steel frame gun.
March 9th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Well, pretty much any grip angle that’s vaguely plausible will suit someone better.
Mr. Owens: The ’08 Luger has a 55 degree grip angle, and the Ruger Mark-series pistols are 25 degrees (both according to the Interwebs; I’m at work so I can’t pull mine out and do some measurin’, but that sounds right from the pictures – and as Les indirectly pointed out above).
So they do exist… not sure why they’re not more prevalent, other than “feeling wrong” to many people, regardless of anything else.
Doesn’t matter much to me, it turns out.
March 9th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Very silly.
He assumes that GLOCK grip angle is superior because holsters made for GLOCKs present a GLOCK at an angle that is easy to grasp? O.o
March 9th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
I measure the grip angles from the inside of the grip where the frame and grip meet. The glock is about 110. The steyr is about 111. The luger is about 125. I personally like the baby Nambu the best at 115 because it is like pointing ones finger. I like a weapon that fires in the direction my finger would point.
March 9th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
I have lost count of the number of handguns I own, but it has to be over 45 and I never thought about grip angle. They all seem to shoot very well for me. I seem to naturally conform to the individual handgun. My broomstick mauser w/stock is my favorite (if you have to have just one cool handgun)
March 9th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
As long as they keep selling them with front and rear sights… grip angle is just something to get used to.
March 9th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Colt is 70 degree grip angle. Just measured a broomhandle mauser at 80 degrees.
March 10th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
I chuckle every time I get called a Glock Fanboi, but it happens enough that it is hard to deny. That said my current crusade is to get S&W to build a midsized M&P. If they did I would order a Apex trigger today and call S&W Monday morning.
I have more on this topic coming, but I think the way to read the take away is, the further away from 2:30 (or 8:30) on the belt you get, the better a Glock carries in comparison to a 1911.
March 11th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
glocks are ugly as s…, and there are plenty of pistols just as reliable as the glock..ie:(beretta,sig,ruger,kahr) and as for cost you can buy a fully machined gun for the same cost as some injection moulded grip of a glock ,need i go on???..get over yourself ,you band wagon jumping ,glock loving ,thinking you have the bestest gun on the planet .its like race cars there all fast as hell,and the winner wins by a half second….hello ther just as good as each other.