And in this week's episode of "I don't understand how my own brain works!" Here's a quick update on gun shopping last Friday Christmas Eve. All Christmas presents bought and accounted for, all green lights for Christmas chores, my boss at home told me I'd been relatively coherent and good for most of the year and told me to take the rest of the Christmas money, go forth and buy myself a new shiny handgun. Didn't have to be told twice and I didn't want her to change her mind so I was out the door in about 10 seconds after she gave me the go ahead. So, here's where things get weird, I had full intentions, FULL intentions of buying a new Glock 19 Gen 5. After the above mentioned SNAFU with the 43X I decided to go with what I know......here's how that worked out.
So I get to my favorite LCS, they have plenty of Glock 19 Gen 5s in stock, then.....right next to them is....a couple of brand new G43X 9mms......yes, the gun I just traded off less than a month ago.....so all of a sudden that burr that's been stuck in my brain about getting rid of that 43X suddenly became more than a burr. I kept thinking about how concealable it was, and that maybe I needed to invest a little more time in trying to practice with it, big sasquatch hands or not.......and of course, when I asked if those were the last two, he said they had about five of them in inventory. They had them going for a pretty good price also...about $80 less than the G19 Gen 5. I told myself surely they won't have night sights for the 43X, or the Shield Arms S15 mags, or the Shield Arms mag release, will they? They can't have all of that in stock on Christmas Eve?.........Well, hell, of course they did, even had my favorite night sights, the TFX Pros....plenty of S15 mags and a whole rack full of the SA aluminum mag releases....sigh......I looked at the G19 and the G43X about five times each, they're used to me doing that there...lol. Finally, cursing myself and shaking my head as I told the clerk the weird news....I decided to give the 43X another go around so I bought it, had the TFX Pros installed, switched out the mag release when I got home, ordered the grip plug, some Handleit grips, etc. Kept laughing at myself on the way home for just being weird and not buying the Glock I had planned on but I really want to make the 43X work as a concealed carry gun. I'm going to take it to the range with a bunch of ammo, and maybe I'll do better this time. The Glock 43X is such a good concealed carry platform that I thought it deserved a 2nd chance. Upon telling my better half, she just looked at me and said "Well, as long as that's the one you really wanted, then don't second guess it."
Taking it to the range after work today. I really would like to get just a decent grouping on my first mag, then I'll definitely be willing to give this thing a 2nd day in court. I'm glad I got the Glock 30S/SF out of the trade, it's a great gun and it works nicely concealed, but the Glock 43X just seems like maybe it was me instead of the gun...lol. We'll see. Anyway, again, my eccentricities seem to be getting worse as I approach 50......lol
