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

[Bassbob]

Oh I have researched Glocks and they are very well made pistol. Great reliability, accurate, well made, I just don't care to own one. My preference is leaning more toward DA/SA Hammer fires, but that is what I have trained on and use. Again nothing against striker fires.

I don't own a Glock. I really wanted to. Don't like the grip angle and the triggers are terrible.

I have and love some DA/SA. P30L and a pair of Makarovs.

 

[Old_Me]

From the research I've done (Videos, stats, public information on different firearms) and owning a SAR B6, I think it was a good buy and for a great price.

i think it is a clone to a CZ.

i have 3 CZ's, and frankly, the cost of each was below, $800

a fellow shooter/reloader has several SAR's and loves them.

 

[Winchester67]

I have found when someone is buying something based on price, they don't want to listen to the advice of others that have more experience with the brand than the price focused person. After I retired from the shooting sports industry I helped a friend with a gun shop part time until his son graduated and got up to speed. In my decades in the industry, I helped more people take advantage of the Taurus lifetime warranty than ANY other brand, no contest. I know two gun writers that refuse to review them because even the revolvers have QC problems with the locking bolt notch depth, and some are too dangerous in their minds to even test, let alone recommend. Still, some writers will...they look at the advertising dollars that Taurus spends I guess. But two writers have the integrity not to review them. That speaks volumes to those that listen. I get it that money is tight. When I was in college I was on a budget tighter than Gene Autry's britches. But I ate Ramen noodles long enough to buy a police trade in Smith and Wesson revolver. There are low buck reliable guns out there. A good, reliable sidearm is a requirement of a Gentleman. One cannot scrimp on this. Go without cable TV, a smart phone and whatever else you have to forsake to buy quality and training. One good handgun is worth a dozen semi-good ones.

 

[Talyn]

I've modernized my Gen 2 G19 with a PSA Dagger "complete" frame.

BIG improvement over the OEM frame, since it points and fells much better now.

 

[Annihilator]

I think people buy Glocks because they always work. So do others though. And have for years. These days I think the majority of people with Glocks are cops and spooks.

 

[SimonRL]

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[bc22wm]

Do Higher Priced Pistols Mean Better Quality?
YUP!, Well not always, but most of the time, well, some of the time, kind of. How is that for a definite maybe?
I think higher price mean better fit and finish and less likely to get a lemon, but then I may be just fooling myself. I know I've had a number of Charter Arms and the only problem I ever had was someone always wanted it more than I did. I have a Norinco Tokarev, $65, new 3 mags, out the door at a motorcycle & gun show/ keg party (how cool is that) that is so reliable that the one time in thousands of rounds it did fail to feed I just stood there dumbfounded.