What’s So Great About the Glock 43 9mm?

What’s So Great About the Glock 43 9mm?

Glock finally got around to producing the single stack 9mm gun everybody’s been waiting for ever since micro- single stack 9s have been a thing people knew they could have.Was the Glock 43 was worth the wait?

Glock took their time with this product’s release.Anybody who really wanted a good pocket 9mm went out and bought an M&P Shield https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/mp-bodyguard-38-integrated-crimson-trace-laseror a Walther PPS https://waltherarms.com/p22-q/or a Sig P 938 or one of the other dozen ultra compact single stack 9mm’s that have been released in the last couple of years. The real question is not whether it was worth the wait, but what does the Glock 43 bring to the table in an already crowded market except the big G on the slide.Let’s start with the basics, the size puts it right in the middle of its class,maybe a little toward the smaller end. Glock obviously designed this with the intention that it’s actually going to be shot. They weren’t going for the smallest 9mm, but the smallest one that you can still get a good grip on and actually control. It’s not the only single stack 9mm on the market to strike this balance between shoot ability and conceal ability. Glock however has managed to do it as well as anybody else. If you’ve avoided Glocks in the past because of the boxy feel of the grip, the 43 is a welcome deviation.Just like they did with the 42 Glock seems to have put a lot of thought into the ergonomics of the 43, and that’s extra important in a small semi-auto. The grip is shaped to optimize the position of the firing hand, you can get it nice and high up close to the bore line and that translates to less felt recoil and less muzzle flip. Everything else about the Glock 43https://us.glock.com/en/pistols/g43is just what you’d expect from a Glock, it’s got the same trigger, the same take down procedure, and the same terrible plastic sites. Aside from the sights, the bigger disappointment is the magazine capacity. The Glock 43 comes with 2-6 round magazines. One is a flush fitting magazine and the other has a pinky extension but it’s still holds just six rounds. All of the major competitors to the Glock 43 have a 7 or 8 round extended magazine as an option. Some of them even have a 7 round flush fitting magazine. There are some aftermarket solutions for the Glock 43’s mag capacity like base plates from Terron Tactical. That allows you to add one extra round to the magazine and the other is a plus two for a total of eight. These base plates use the original factory spring so you’re adding capacity to the magazine, but you’re actually decreasing spring tension and that could very well cause reliability issues down the road.

Capacity isn’t the only downside to carrying a small gun. They’re also typically tough to shoot accurately with any kind of speed relative to other small 9mm’s. The Glock 43 actually handles pretty well at the range, but that’s not saying much. You can’t change the laws of physics. The dirty little secret of the Glock 43 and the other pocket 9mm is that a lot of people who own them really just don’t shoot them as well as they think they do. Getting a nice little group on paper isn’t too hard with slow fire,but under any kind of pressure or time limitation, the group size tends to spread out or even get thrown off target completely.This can happen even to experienced shooters who can normally run a full sized handgun fairly well. It usually comes down to problems with trigger control or grip that are specific to small semi autos. There’s just less real estate for your hands to come into contact with, so you have to make a special effort to figure out how to make it work for your hands so you don’t have to adjust your grip in between every shot.As for trigger control, the Glock 43 technically does have the same trigger as any other Glock, but in a pistol this light it actually feels heavier. The Glock 43’s trigger pull is at about eight pounds, which is pretty typical for a factory Glock. Try holding a one pound gun completely still while you apply eight pounds of pressure with just your index finger, that’s not easy. Fortunately, if you have a problem with this, it’s fairly easy to fix. One of the best things about Glock in general is that they’re really easy to work on. And because of that there’s a ton of aftermarket support for swapping out parts.To change the feel of the Glock’s 43 trigger it just takes a couple of minutes and the parts are usually very affordable.But with or without a decent trigger,we’re still looking at a small gun with significant recoil andit’s tough to shoot accurately under stress. That’s not a condemnation of the Glock 43 in particular, but it’s more of a warning. Just because it’s a Glock doesn’t mean you’re going to be able to run it like a bigger Glock, like the 17https://eu.glock.com/en/products/pistols/g17or 19 or even the 26. It’s much less forgiving of sloppy techniques. You might want to do a Hey Google or Hey Siri search for some other opinions on the Glock’s triggers.

So what has the Glock 43 brought to the table besides brand name recognition? Well, really not much, but that in itself is worth a lot. Glock has a well-deserved reputation for reliability, especially with their 9mm pistols. If the 43 is as good as the other 9’s, then it should be on everyone’s shortlist for an ultra-discreet carry gun.

There are other issues you need to consider when you are buying any Glock, be it a 17, 19, 34, or 43. Those issues involve storage and organization of the guns and storage and organization of the magazines. Since most people who have one Glock have several, and have other handguns, in addition if you have a group of pistols you probably have many magazines for them. There are many ways to store and organize handguns. One of the best that we have seen is made by Hyskore www.hyskore.com. It’s their 30277 Six Gun Modular Pistol Rack https://hyskore.com/products/30277-6-gun-eva-pistol-rack/. This is a great rack because not only does it have a smooth, semi rigid finish that properly supports handguns and keeps them from touching each other, thereby avoiding scratches and damage, it’s also modular. The rack can be disassembled, and then the various segments can be reassembled to accommodate guns of various widths such as single stack magazine guns, double stack magazine guns, and revolvers. This also leads to the ability to take several racks and add them together to make one customized rack that fills the upper shelf in the typical gun safe so you can utilize every inch and have a place for each one of your guns.

As far as magazine storage goes, if you have that many guns you probably have many magazines. Hyskore has also developed 2 really good pistol magazine storage racking systems. They are the 30316 Double Stack Magazine Organizer https://hyskore.com/products/30316-double-stack-modular-magazine-storage/ which holds 12 double stack magazines, and the 30318 Single Stack Magazine Organizer https://hyskore.com/products/30318-modular-single-stack-magazine-storage/ which holds 16 single stack 1911 style magazines. Both of these items are made from the same closed cell foam as the pistol rack, and the foam sections mount to a sturdy rigid vinyl platform that gets mounted to the wall or the inside of a vault with the included screws. These racks provide neat and functional organization for both fully loaded and unloaded pistol magazines.