a little help

[Mazin]

I know I'm a catch hell because there is a lot of smith fans in this forum but I would take the glock anyday over a smith semi. IMO smith makes good wheel guns and thats about it, just my humble opinion.

[ldmaster]

Jerry -god that hit home, you're right, I have glocks older than my children...

Ouch...

I say, "buy em both, shoot both, then sell one." There is just NO WAY to tell which one will do it for you, if you don't like the gun you're shooting or any reason, you wont shoot/train with it.

Or borrow one or two.

But if I had to go with one and only one, it would be glock, for the following reasons:

It just don't break, especially the .45acp.
If it DOES break, most parts are under 10 bucks.
Everybody and their uncle is a glock armorer, so they can swap the parts for you without costing you much or anything.
The mags are quite common out there, you can find used 13 rd mags for 20 bucks if you're patient.
There's just more history and improvement in the glock, yes they've had their problems - and they've modified the gun to fix them. The MP is still a relatively new kid on the block - no telling what will fail and cost you a few bucks.

Accuracy? With a pistol? Sure if you're a match guy shooting from a bench, etc... The two pistols are comparative in accuracy.

But the Glock grip is wider (even the SF version) than the MP. I have a grip reduction on mine, cost me though.

I've owned that glock since 1996, I dont even want to think about how many rounds have been through it - only even had it redone twice as a "parts upgrade" fix. Nothing has ever broken.

It's ugly as sin, but it gets the job done.