Would you buy a gun that didn't fit your hand well?

No.
And the best fit for mine is the WW2 Sauer 38H (.32 Auto).
Production never restarted, even long after they fled west, ahead of the Soviet Army in '45.

The much more recent Sig-Sauer 232 is almost as ideal.
 
If we had an objective way of saying how badly it fit, that would help.

If a gun fit me so badly that it interfered with handling, shooting, accuracy, anything, NO I WOULDN'T. If I'm going to be using it as a combat weapon, it's going to be very hard to pull the thing into a high skill level if every fibre of your being fights against it. For target shooting, how can a person fire a round accurately if it's a struggle just keeping the thing in the hand?

Everyone has their own limitations of adaptability, and your needs are a big area of concern, but if you work for hours at a time at building, you have to even be careful about how your hammer feels.

It's an olympic free pistol below. You don't get these off the shelf. from wikipedia

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We also have to make sure we are not confusing comfort with practical fit (if there is a difference). You know those comments about how a gun doesn't fit but its the most accurate gun someone owns. Maybe comfort and "fit" are not the same.
 
I've never witnessed evidence of Glocks being more reliable than any other well-made handgun, so don't feel like you have to give up something to have a gun that fits your hand.
 
My Ortgies 25 ACP, my Mauser M1914 and CZ-27 do not fit my hand well but I bought them for the workmanship and collectibility.
 
Guns I have with "uncomfortable" grips:

Desert Eagle - if you can get one hand around this grip you have monster hands!
Megastar 45 - just a bit smaller than the Desert Eagle grip.

My pocket 9mm, a Diamondback DB9 in a wallet holster isn't comfortable to shoot, but it works well enough.
 
Would you buy a gun that didn't fit your hand well?
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Sure - I have several Glocks.

I don't buy them because they fit my hand better or are any more reliable (in fact, on the whole, they have proven to be less reliable than some other designs -such as HKs and Walther P99s - in my experience.)

I do buy them because I happen to shoot them very well and they are easy to maintain and get parts for.
 
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