New to guns, quick question

To be honest, most pistols today will feel good in most folks hands.
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I'd have to disagree. When I went bought my first handgun, I had no idea what I wanted or what I was looking for. I went to a nearby store and just started asking the clerk if I could hold certain ones. I held probably 15-20 different handguns and the one that seemed to fit in my palm and felt the most comfortable was the Walther.
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The Walther may have felt best, but are you saying that all the other 15-20 handguns were actually uncomfortable?

Most gun makers know how to make a grip that will be comfortable for the vast majority of people.
Sure it might not fit everyone's hands, but it will fit most folk's hands.



Don't focus so much on the feel of the pistol...instead go with the pistol that you are most accurate with regardless of "feel".
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I would have to disagree with his also. If a pistol does not feel comfortable, is it going to feel comfortable when you shoot it....probably not. If it doesn't feel comfortable when you shoot it, how willing are you going to be to practice...not very often.
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No, if you have a gun that feels great in your hand but you just don't shoot it very well (and there are plenty of reasons one might not shoot a gun well regardless of the "feel"), and you have a gun that doesn't feel as good as the other gun but you're very accurate with it, which would you rather carry and shoot?

The S&W M&P9 I once owned felt better in my grip than my Glock 17, but I was much more accurate with the Glock.
So I traded away the M&P.


You want something that you WANT to shoot...not something that is so uncomfortable that you don't want to shoot it.
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I agree.
However, we're talking about how a gun feels in your hand.
And I've never held any handgun that just felt so uncomfortable that I didn't want to shoot it.
I have shot light-weight .357 magnums that were uncomfortable....but that was not because of the grip or how it felt in my hand....it was because of the brutal recoil.
 
peacefulgary said:
The Walther may have felt best, but are you saying that all the other 15-20 handguns were actually uncomfortable?
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Yes they were actually uncomfortable. The Walther felt great in my hands and it shoots well. If I had a gun that was comfy but didn't shoot worth a darn. I'd sell it and find something that fit both criteria, comfy and shoots well.
 
jwrowland77 said:
Yes they were actually uncomfortable, mainly due to oversized for my hands. The Walther felt great in my hands and it shoots well. If I had a gun that was comfy but didn't shoot worth a darn. I'd sell it and find something that fit both criteria, comfy and shoots well.
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In my own experience, the "feel" of any gun is irrelevant. If you pick up a gun and shoot it for days, months, etc., you will get used to it. The M1 Garand as an example (although not a hand gun), given to Basic Trainees, carried daily, handled, stripped, cleaned, shot, until we just liked the "feel". We acclimated to it...not it to us.
Get a 1911 and shoot it frequently...you will get used to it and the time will come when it just "feels" right in your hand.
 
peacefulgary said:
You've peaked my curiosity...which handguns did you find to be uncomfortable in your grip?
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I picked up almost every semi-auto that the box store had on their selves. From 9mm to .380 to 40's, and all I them except for the Walther felt uncomfortable to me to hold and I did not feel like I could have made well placed shots if I had to. Mind you, I was looking for a CCW. When I picked up the Walther though it seemed like it was made for my hand.

I did have a pistol in the service that was assigned to me, and yes I did qualify at expert marksman with it, but I hated shooting it and was uncomfortable shooting it.
 
People have test fired my HK P7M8 and told me it was too long and blocky, it didn't fill the hand.

I've fired it more than anything else so it became the standard by which I measured how other handguns felt in my hand.
 
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