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Quality/Price Ratio for Pistols, Do Higher Priced Pistols Mean Better Quality?

Hi,

Faulkner said:
...Its a challenge to learn to shoot Glocks when you have one hand holding your nose...
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Now, that's pretty funny right there. :ROFLMAO:

@gfan1984, I've always been a bang-for-your-buck kind of a guy with all my purchases, car, house, firearms, etc. I'm sure you've got enough common sense to find something that will always work for you and fit your budget. But it's ok to splurge once in a while. ;)

All of my pistols have been less than $700, a couple of them used. Except for the .22s, they've all been very reliable. I'd carry any of them.

And that's my profound glimpse into the obvious for today. :unsure:


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,



Now, that's pretty funny right there. :ROFLMAO:

@gfan1984, I've always been a bang-for-your-buck kind of a guy with all my purchases, car, house, firearms, etc. I'm sure you've got enough common sense to find something that will always work for you and fit your budget. But it's ok to splurge once in a while. ;)

All of my pistols have been less than $700, a couple of them used. Except for the .22s, they've all been very reliable. I'd carry any of them.

And that's my profound glimpse into the obvious for today. :unsure:


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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Well said.
 
gfan1984 said:
I agree with you, for me personally I will never buy a firearm that is cheaper than $350. However I will never buy a firearm that is $1,000 just because that model has a gold plated frame, when the standard model is about $250 cheaper. I guess I should have explained a bit more, I was just wondering if the extra bells and whistles of having fancy grips and Rose gold triggers was really necessary when the base model was tired and true and still reliable.
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See, here’s the thing:

I’ve bought, and carried, guns that cost less than $350; one was actually under $200 (a P64 Radom in 9x18; incredibly reliable, and utterly bombproof).

I also have carried guns that run $2k or more (Baer 1911, Wilson Combat X9). I carry the X9 from time to time, still.

I think when it comes to 1911’s, etc, you can very much get what you pay for. I’ve found it’s that razors edge of extreme accuracy coupled with reliability (there’s not a whole lot of production 1911’s that will outshoot a custom regularly).

I do think Gucci Glocks are dumb AF, though; even having run a Roland Special, it’s still a Glock.
 
PAGunGuy said:
It depends.
Is a Glock less quality or reliable than say a Staccato or Wilson Combat?
Glock 17 is what, $500, $600 bucks. Staccatos or WCs are like $2500
Is the quality of the more expensive better?
Is anyone going to say they don't trust their lives to the Glock?

A Ruger LCP is roughly half the cost of a Glock 43. Is the 43 really that much better?
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you know, its funny...the RSO i see every week at the public range, is NOT a Glock guy....

but he told me he carries a Glock.........."cuz they shoot when you need them too"......
 
For me reliability is #1. Its gotta work when you need it to. Everything else is secondary.
As far as cost, that's a matter of opinion. What's cheap to some people is expensive to others.
One thing you need to consider is your own skill level. I readily admit that I'm just an average shooter. Not bad, but certainly not a Master. While I can admire an custom $3K pistol, I'm not capable of shooting it to its full potential. So why spend the extra money?
 
Up to a certain point more $$ usually buys a better made more reliable firearm. The ultra high price stuff usually has bells and whistles the lower priced guns normally don’t. In other words, a $1000 pistol will usually be better than a $500 one, Whether that $3000 pistol is three times as good as the $1000 one is a decision we each have to make😏. That said, many years ago I purchased a carry pistol from a major player in the business (K….r). They’d just brought out a very sweet looking and handling 9 mm pocket piece called a Solo that resembled an old 1903 Colt. I gave $1100 for it (at the time, the most I’d ever plunked down for ANY firearm). Pistol handled great and was superbly accurate. Unfortunately it couldn’t make it through two (single stack) magazines without a FTF or FTE. Two trips back to the mothership failed to resolve the problem. I really wanted to have it work, and tried every flavor of high end defensive ammo I could find all with the exact same results. After wasting several hundred $$ worth oh high end ammo I finally swapped it for a new SIG P938, which cost considerably less and has ran perfectly now for years with nary and FTF or FTE. Moral of story-(1) high $$ does not guarantee high performance (2) never buy a first year production model of ANY firearm. Let somebody else be the Beta tester and don’t buy until the design has proven itself.
 
Faulkner said:
Price is only one indicator of potential quality. I think a Tisas 1911 is every bit as good as a standard Colt 1911 at less than half the price. The little pony stamp is not worth the extra cost.

As for you Glock grip complainers, it's really not that big a deal. 1911 fanboys seldom make the transition without a little effort. Its a challenge to learn to shoot Glocks when you have one hand holding your nose. As for me, I'm a good enough pistolero that I can effectively shoot Glocks, 1911s, and revolvers and transition from one to another with ease. The process is called practice. I also have the ability to transition from my Ford F150 to my wife's sedan without running into the ditch. Heck, I can even transition from fork to spoon without spilling too much food in my lap.
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i too i have no issues shooting any of the Glocks that i own, which is 3...and frankly, i have a plan to get a G-19, and that might be my new carry gun.

i have 2----coupons from the GSSF to buy Blue Label, which is on my short list this year.
 
Some might disagree but I look at it in a practical carry type of way as in personal protection. So with that,To me a couple three factors come into play. (And forgive me I don’t mean to come across as on a tangent. You like accessories go for it I just don’t get into them that much and just explaining why for me)

1 to a point you get what you pay for. While a Wilson Les Baer or Ed Brown is probably one of the best quality 1911’s and no doubt are made to last so they really last any longer than an upper end production 1911 like a SA TRP or Colt Combat Hunt or a Dan Wesson? For most mortal earth people probably not.
Then the opposite is a Cabot 1911 then your really in the prestige plus club. Dudes that have those are the Jay Leno car collection of the gun world

I personally like HK Hammer fired guns and Sig 22x series while I have Glocks because I teach classes that make up of Glocks with the exception of Ameriglow sights all my Glocks are stock. They work fine and I would personally have no issue if I had to carry one. That said a lot of Glock folks put more money I aftermarket parts the cost far exceeds what I paid for my HK LEM or Sig 22x Legion guns. And often from seeing their skilled they should have bought ammo and a class instead but they sure feel good about it.
Then the other thing is while we all want maximum performance a lot of these quality guns say 320 X5 legion or Staccato are not the best concealed carry guns because if size but for most normal folks they are not great guns for people management. Shooting yes but cops and civilians hold more people at gunpoint than shoot people so having a Glock that shoots 3” groups at 20 yards with a .50 split time vs a target gun that shoots 3” at 50 with a .25 split is moot.you. Am but a lot of gear to get a 509 solar Glock to shoot like that but is it worth it?

If your winning trinkets maybe but if you have competent skills for a self defense problem not much of a difference!

Why I like going to the revolver roundups. I get to hangout with and discuss with a lot of folks that have dumped more felons with revolvers or less than 4 rounds out of their autos than the instagram mag dump at .15 split crowd.
 
I have no issues with my G42, or my cheap .25 from Jimenez Arms, carried it faithfully after my surgery, fed anything I threw at it, so to me a lower price gun is fine if that’s all you can afford, like the S&W SDVE guns, great guns.

Plus I will not get into a 1911/Glock word battle, I have both, like them both, shoot them , you either like 1911’s, Glocks or you don’t, we all have our opinions of them, but some go overboard talking them down cause you don’t care for them, there is a nice way to express your opinion, without degrading people who do like them.
 
Annihilator said:
I have no issues with my G42, or my cheap .25 from Jimenez Arms, carried it faithfully after my surgery, fed anything I threw at it, so to me a lower price gun is fine if that’s all you can afford, like the S&W SDVE guns, great guns.

Plus I will not get into a 1911/Glock word battle, I have both, like them both, shoot them , you either like 1911’s, Glocks or you don’t, we all have our opinions of them, but some go overboard talking them down cause you don’t care for them, there is a nice way to express your opinion, without degrading people who do like them.
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Good point, I feel though when you have a lower income and want a budget pistol because that's all you can afford we shouldn't look down on that. Talking to many people, most want to learn to shoot and get proper training, but many feel like the "Good guns" are out of reach because of price. It also doesn't help that a lot that many people have stated that if you don't get the higher end firearms you shouldn't get one at all.

Since when did the ability to defend yourself become a class tier?
 
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