Ardent
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This is tuned to Americans a bit and a blurb I did for the site, so ignore explanations on Canada and handgun applications.
Glockasaurus : All Beast, No Beauty
This is the biggest Glock ever made, the 6.02” barreled, double stack 10mm Glock 40. The number 40 can be confusing, and while they simply doubled up on the G20’s model number, many the Glock uninitiated figure you’re talking a .40 S&W… Then they see the gun. It’s big, though not nearly as big as all the US reviews had me thinking it was going to be, it actually strikes me as proportionate and feels fantastic in the hand, has the same visual balance as a 5" 1911 to me. I’ve always been of fan of the “long Glocks”, the 17L, 24, the 34, and 35. Now we have the G41, if only I was a .45 fan still, with a slimmed and slightly longer slide versus the 21. Ten years ago when I was a fan of the .45ACP I’d have been all over that and declared it the be all and end all.
While the G41 is slim, the G40 is classic 10mm Glock, sharing the G20’s slide width, just lengthened 1.4”. The velocity boost is less than you might figure, averaging about 75fps over the Glock 20, load dependent, but the longer sight radius and reduction in muzzle jump make this a far more useful field pistol. Bear in mind, pun intended, 75-100fps is a much larger proportion of a handgun’s velocity than a rifle’s, and is meaningful, adding substantial muzzle energy. Guys are hot rodding rounds all the time at the reload bench, bulging cases and flattening primers to see the kind of gain that comes free in the G40… well except for another inch and a half out front. The trigger is better than I anticipated, my pull gauge took a walk in the gunroom but I’d guess six pounds, with lots of creep and mystery as the break approaches.
It has Glock’s plastic adjustable rear sight, which works, but is terrible and sloppy in adjustment. I like the “ball and bucket” sight picture I just wish Glock could make real sights. I bought Meprolights for mine that will be fitted right after the next carry qualification shoot. The adjustables were handy for what really is a precision target shoot, for work fixed night sights are the ticket. In firing, the Glock 40 feels like a 9mm +P with PMC low-spec (just over FBI) 10mm 200gr, it clocked on either side of 1100fps from the 6.02” barrel. Really, the recoil is that mild, and some old hot “proper” 10mm I had left over were little different, just louder and with a big flash. It rudely eats any ammunition you feed it, and spits bulged cases. Accuracy was good, I haven’t used Glocks for years and had to learn the trigger again, but easily all shots were kept in the black at 20 yards offhand, with the groups by the end of the session averaging 3 ½” for five.
I touched on it earlier but there was so much fuss on the internet about the size of this Glock, the biggest ever made as often mentioned, I was anticipating a sibling of my old HK Mk23. On outright specs it’s very comparable in size coming in only millimetres shorter in both directions, however in handling this is a much sleeker, less obtrusive package. At only 28oz empty it makes my 1911s feel like pigs, and it contains far, far fewer parts and more rounds. Sleek is important, this is a working outdoorsman’s pistol, and that’s Glock’s stated purpose for the design as well. Glock’s design mantra has always dictated minimalism, and this pistol follows it to a tee, holster bevel, no extended slide release, a smooth trigger, and along with the adjustable sight well that’s it for model specific design choices. It fits the hand a lot better than internet banter would make you think as well, the 4th Gen 10mm frame is probably the most comfortable pistol grip I’ve used, and by no means the 2x4 relayed in legend.
In Canada, this is a perfect sized 10mm in my estimation. The most common of the extremely limited defensive uses of handguns in Canada is wilderness open carry with an Authorization To Carry (ATC), for defence against large predators in the course of work, Grizzlies in particular. Here there is no concealed carry, and barrels under 4.13” are prohibited, and though we get compact Glocks with extended or threaded barrels to put them over the limit, they’re far less popular here than stateside and amount to range toys. Canada is one of the world’s last great wildernesses being larger than the United States, smaller only than Russia, but with a tiny fraction of the population of either. It's a big country, with big animals and generally the guns approved for wilderness carry are guns to match.
Defensive work handguns here therefore take a different tack than elsewhere, being heavily oriented to .44 Magnum revolvers. For those that take to semi autos better and detest gear weight, the Glock 40 is the perfect solution and offers far lighter weight, and greater capacity. It’s also a Glock, being cheap and tough enough to treat with professional prejudice, offers fewer protusions to snag on gear, rifle and bino straps, canoe gunwales, or bushplane belts and controls, and hits what you aim at with no safeties to fiddle with or render ambidextrous. It’s my new favourite as a Canadian wilderness work gun; all beast no beauty. Admittedly the romantic side of loves my stainless Colt Delta Elite, but it’s becoming hard to justify in the face of progress like the Glock 40, especially after detail stripping each… There’s just less going on in the Glock, and it might feel better in the hand. I’m falling for the future, and officially a Glock convert after years of 1911s and revolvers.
Glockasaurus : All Beast, No Beauty
This is the biggest Glock ever made, the 6.02” barreled, double stack 10mm Glock 40. The number 40 can be confusing, and while they simply doubled up on the G20’s model number, many the Glock uninitiated figure you’re talking a .40 S&W… Then they see the gun. It’s big, though not nearly as big as all the US reviews had me thinking it was going to be, it actually strikes me as proportionate and feels fantastic in the hand, has the same visual balance as a 5" 1911 to me. I’ve always been of fan of the “long Glocks”, the 17L, 24, the 34, and 35. Now we have the G41, if only I was a .45 fan still, with a slimmed and slightly longer slide versus the 21. Ten years ago when I was a fan of the .45ACP I’d have been all over that and declared it the be all and end all.
While the G41 is slim, the G40 is classic 10mm Glock, sharing the G20’s slide width, just lengthened 1.4”. The velocity boost is less than you might figure, averaging about 75fps over the Glock 20, load dependent, but the longer sight radius and reduction in muzzle jump make this a far more useful field pistol. Bear in mind, pun intended, 75-100fps is a much larger proportion of a handgun’s velocity than a rifle’s, and is meaningful, adding substantial muzzle energy. Guys are hot rodding rounds all the time at the reload bench, bulging cases and flattening primers to see the kind of gain that comes free in the G40… well except for another inch and a half out front. The trigger is better than I anticipated, my pull gauge took a walk in the gunroom but I’d guess six pounds, with lots of creep and mystery as the break approaches.
It has Glock’s plastic adjustable rear sight, which works, but is terrible and sloppy in adjustment. I like the “ball and bucket” sight picture I just wish Glock could make real sights. I bought Meprolights for mine that will be fitted right after the next carry qualification shoot. The adjustables were handy for what really is a precision target shoot, for work fixed night sights are the ticket. In firing, the Glock 40 feels like a 9mm +P with PMC low-spec (just over FBI) 10mm 200gr, it clocked on either side of 1100fps from the 6.02” barrel. Really, the recoil is that mild, and some old hot “proper” 10mm I had left over were little different, just louder and with a big flash. It rudely eats any ammunition you feed it, and spits bulged cases. Accuracy was good, I haven’t used Glocks for years and had to learn the trigger again, but easily all shots were kept in the black at 20 yards offhand, with the groups by the end of the session averaging 3 ½” for five.
I touched on it earlier but there was so much fuss on the internet about the size of this Glock, the biggest ever made as often mentioned, I was anticipating a sibling of my old HK Mk23. On outright specs it’s very comparable in size coming in only millimetres shorter in both directions, however in handling this is a much sleeker, less obtrusive package. At only 28oz empty it makes my 1911s feel like pigs, and it contains far, far fewer parts and more rounds. Sleek is important, this is a working outdoorsman’s pistol, and that’s Glock’s stated purpose for the design as well. Glock’s design mantra has always dictated minimalism, and this pistol follows it to a tee, holster bevel, no extended slide release, a smooth trigger, and along with the adjustable sight well that’s it for model specific design choices. It fits the hand a lot better than internet banter would make you think as well, the 4th Gen 10mm frame is probably the most comfortable pistol grip I’ve used, and by no means the 2x4 relayed in legend.
In Canada, this is a perfect sized 10mm in my estimation. The most common of the extremely limited defensive uses of handguns in Canada is wilderness open carry with an Authorization To Carry (ATC), for defence against large predators in the course of work, Grizzlies in particular. Here there is no concealed carry, and barrels under 4.13” are prohibited, and though we get compact Glocks with extended or threaded barrels to put them over the limit, they’re far less popular here than stateside and amount to range toys. Canada is one of the world’s last great wildernesses being larger than the United States, smaller only than Russia, but with a tiny fraction of the population of either. It's a big country, with big animals and generally the guns approved for wilderness carry are guns to match.
Defensive work handguns here therefore take a different tack than elsewhere, being heavily oriented to .44 Magnum revolvers. For those that take to semi autos better and detest gear weight, the Glock 40 is the perfect solution and offers far lighter weight, and greater capacity. It’s also a Glock, being cheap and tough enough to treat with professional prejudice, offers fewer protusions to snag on gear, rifle and bino straps, canoe gunwales, or bushplane belts and controls, and hits what you aim at with no safeties to fiddle with or render ambidextrous. It’s my new favourite as a Canadian wilderness work gun; all beast no beauty. Admittedly the romantic side of loves my stainless Colt Delta Elite, but it’s becoming hard to justify in the face of progress like the Glock 40, especially after detail stripping each… There’s just less going on in the Glock, and it might feel better in the hand. I’m falling for the future, and officially a Glock convert after years of 1911s and revolvers.
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