Glock 26 Is It Still A Relevant Option

what is going on guys Steve here with scotch on things today I just wanted to a quick video on the Glock 26 and is it still relevant in kind of today's world with some of the new offerings that that Glocks brought out over the last couple years you know the 26 is a over gun it's been around for a while and now they have things like the you know the 43 and they just released the 43 X and the 48 first off I don't know why people do this I think people go around and watch gun videos and not just my channel but every channel and they want to be the safety guy or man that guys being unsafe I had someone come in on a our video I did and I just kind of torque me off and I'm in my home no one else is in my home right now and these are my guns and I have control of them and I know what's loaded and what's not for instance this 43 is unloaded all right trigger is back no magazine empty James okay empty gun 26 is in its holster and in my system I know then that gun is loaded I just pulled out my 19 which I'm carrying right now it is loaded because it was I'm carrying it right now it's in my belt in my holster so here's my 26 I'm going to pull out this I'm gonna do a review on this holster it's retention is really tight 26 triggers forward it is loaded I know that why cuz it's in a holster and if I'm not carrying it then it's in my safe because I'm carrying my 19 so I don't need I'm not gonna drop the magazine I'm not gonna empty the chamber I'm just gonna show it to you cousin I'm an idiot sorry I know this is just kind of its kind of a pet peeve I don't get these guys that get thrilled going around and commenting on every video who are your being so unsafe you're getting you know man you're teaching bad practices whatever when I'm done with this video since I'm not carrying this right now it's gonna go into my safe all right that being said sorry I just had I've gotten some comments and it's you know a bit on Ben's my whole life I have children guess what my guns are safe in my house they don't have access to him it's a video no one's around they're like oh my god he didn't show us that there's no random that the the Chamber's here it's a Glock the triggers back guess what it's not angling go bang sorry rant over is the 26 still relevant in today's world I did a video I don't know a year over a year ago on why I love the 26 and I do man so here's a quick breakdown I bought the forty three two years ago I got my CCW my co carryin license so I bought the forty three to carry and I carried it for maybe six months and then I bought I thought okay I I wanted I was worried about printing I didn't want anybody so I bought the smallest Glock they had other than the 42 so I bought this gun and carried it great love it still carry it um great gun I love it so after about six months I thought I can carry a larger gun so I went to the 26 get to some frame sorry I went to the 26 and I was carrying it which is the the 10 rounder that came with it and I always carry a backup mag and then I went to this this 12 round with the extension love it love it love it with the 26 and I carried it and I love it and I hear a lot of guys like with Pratt I shoot the 43 decent I can hit center mass they're not tight groups or anything it's not like shooting my 19 or my 30 or anything this gun was a little better but I love carrying it just it's it's as easy to hide as as the 43 on you well then after carrying this for about six months I thought man I can you know that's the same width as the nineteen in the 19th my favorite gun so oh guys be careful loaded gun coming out of a holster so after after about six months so after a year carrying total six months with this six months with this I decided I'm going to I can get away with it I I can you know I can hide it on my body I can conceal so I ordered I had a Gen 319 which is my favorite gun but I wanted the dedicated nineteen to carry so I went with the the gem 519 freaking love this gun so for the past year I've been carrying this gun for a year now okay this has been my everyday carry for for a year and absolutely loved it best gun ever probably in my opinion I love the Gen 5 I love the nineteen so I have two guys so then this gun goes away and basically I was just carrying either my 19 or my 43 and I'd care the 43 believe it or not in shorts and or sweatpants it's if you watch any of my carry videos I explain why I carried this over the 19 it was a sticky holster or something when I didn't have a belt on so those are my two carry guns and I still have my 26 and I hadn't shot it in a year I love this thing but I just went into the safe and [Music] it's that there because it wasn't in my carry rotation and for some reason it never made it to the range because I'd either take my competition guns or my my EDC guns and train with those so this last winter I was you know block releases the 43 X and the 48 and I held I hate the color I'll wait for the I wait for the all-black version come out but in my thinking was okay so for I don't like getting rid of guns it's it's hard for me to trade in but I started thinking okay this this 43 X and the 48 came out same with 10 round capacity ten round capacity if you don't have the don't have the extension alright same width a little bit longer grip but I'm getting 10 rounds and 10 rounds so it's a slimmer gun so I thought hmm and I didn't one gear to this because I started shooting other than carrying it I started shooting this in if he shoot in door I shoot a lot GS SF and if you they have three categories inside you can shoot pocket you can shoot stock and competition or unlimited whatever it is so this obviously this and the 42 fall in the pocket you could shoot this in stock but why would you shoot this in stock when you can shoot a 19 or 17 so I really started thinking about I held the 43 X and the 48 and really love how they feel I love how that grip feels and I've done another video if you watch that if I buy a 48 I can really use this gun and the 48 to kind of come combined all three guns I can with what I have I can make a 43 a 43 X or 48 so I think I will do that in the future so I was really seriously thinking on getting rid of his gun and I took it in I took everything to my local shop and they'll you know range and was really thinking about trading it in on a 48 and I didn't know why because I didn't you know the 48 I'm really you know it's I didn't know when I'd carry it I just like new things like I guess everybody and loves spending money so I didn't know you know know if I got the 48 why wouldn't I trade this and why wouldn't I just you know cuz then really ten rounds over I carry this with a plus 1 and a plus two so 10 rounds over this obviously it beats this gun well I can still shoot this in pocket the 48 you can't that falls into the stock category so I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone if you know I want to keep competition and EDC guns and and keep my options open well but so I was really at that point I had not shot this in a year other than every once in a while while watching TV you know downstairs in my basement in the safe location I like to dry fire against the cement wall so I would bring it out every one so I'll just kind of you know hold it and dry fire so like I said back up a bit took it to the range to my local shop with all intentions of maybe trading it in but also I was um you know we're just getting out of winter and I had shot my first outdoor GSF match two years ago and but I don't wanna shot one gun and I think you can shoot up eight I think they have like eight divisions and I thought they have a sub compact which this falls into I thought you know I'm trying to look at the guns I have and and what divisions I can shoot and I'm trying to justify in my mind how to keep it why should keep this gun I love it but I didn't use it so took it to the range and shot it and my first magazine I was always like oh my god so with I don't see if I have some old pictures is throwing but you know ten yards seven yards with my with this gun my groups were like I just I loved it I loved hot shot but I wasn't I didn't you know I had ok groupings but they weren't like nineteen groupings you know and all of a sudden they were like I was like like I got done I look at the target I'm like hmm that's really amazing and I kind of fell in love with the gun all over again I forgot how much fun it was to shoot how easy and I think it's one it's combination of a couple things how did my moves hit the camp how did I go from like this to that with this gun it's simple it's just another year even though I hadn't shot this particular gun I just think it's shooting every weekend or every other weekend in this dry fire and it's just practice or repetition repetition over the year I've gotten just a little bit better in shooting like with anything it's practice my the best shooter out there no am I getting better yeah and that's why I like to shoot it's it's a one shootings a sport for me and it's also you know protection but I just get a lot of enjoyment about out of shooting it's it's kind of stress relieving for me so over a year another year of shooting you know just like it was if it was with golf or anything another year of practicing makes you a little bit better so I was blown away on how almost easier effortless it was to shoot this gun and I like a light bulb snapped in my head okay hey there's a division for GS SF for this I shoot this really really well so what I was doing I was just this gun if I when I used to carry it I carried it didn't the holster that my 19 is in because if it both of them so right away I thought alright this gun is staying I loved it I fell back in love with it so I word this holster for it first time for the clip I really like the soft loops the first time for the clock I'll do a review of this later I just wanted something quick this was you know I'll do it I'll do another review on this holster but um fell in love with the 26 again like it's okay so it's a Gen 4 it was their summer special color the OD green or whatever it is there's your info about the gun so I went to one of my ranges one of the gun stores around here had a rockier Glock competition and they call it that it's kind of like GS SF but it's open to any you can bring any gun you want so I took it there after shooting at the range that day I thought Jesus okay this I can shoot this thing in competition which is weird sorry start over here I want to add this together I shoot this in competition but you shoot at much closer distances you shoot this and you're shooting this out 225 yards but it's even out the 25 yards I was sorry I my phone keep throwing all trying to edit this together so it makes sense and try and shorten this video up here so long story short put this gun in the safe it was in there for a year I was thinking about selling it come back to it revisit it and I'm shooting it better than any I mean I'm just shooting it really freaking well which is exciting so not only so I I knew there was a division for the outdoor GSS F matches subcompact and bottle holster for its start carrying it it's hard like in my mind I think okay nineteen you know I like the nineteen like longer sight picture sight radius more capacity but sometimes it's nice to have I mean even with this extension this conceals a little bit better and I'm shooting it as good as the 19 so it makes sense and then come to find out something's going on I think competitive shooting might be like golf where you're golfers get the hips don't ask me how but the last two times out I have shot this better than I have my 34 I got done at the plate station and the guy looked at me he was you you shot that better with the 26 then you date you're 34 I said I know I don't know what's going on I have inside winner I was during the winter competitions man the 34 was my go-to gun that was it was I just love that gun and for some reason I've been shooting outdoor do these outdoor competitions and I don't know what it's indoor outdoor that has nothing to do with it I almost have the yips with 34 I'm pushing I'm pull I mean it's just it's really really weird and this gun has just been dead on like I think it's a confidence factor like I had gotten overconfident maybe with the 34 and I was surprised on how well I shot this so then the cut my confidence level kind of raises and you have a couple missteps with a 34 which is supposed to be a competition gun you know way way longer sight radius long better you know bigger grip that you're supposed to shoot that gun better right and when you don't your confidence level kind of falls and you start to even you're like okay I'm I'm unstoppable with this and I got to look at 34 that's not here nor there though this this video is just the my story with the 26 and is it relevant is it still relevant in a world with these slim slim guns especially something like the 43 X or the 48 when you get the same if you don't have this extension you're really getting 10 plus 1 rounds and I say yeah and you're getting a mean you know look at the thickness in these two guns you know pretend this is a the 43 X and the 48 you know the frame is a little thicker but the slides are the same and you're like obviously this is gonna be easier to conceal and even with that longer grip then you know which one's easier to shoot you would think the longer grip but then again for if you're using this is a concealed carry weapon that longer grip is what you're trying to conceal so now that 43 X or the 48 your grip is like that well look at this this is even though it's wider it's shorter in the grip and that's it's much easier to conceal I just think it's something you need to look at I mean I think people kind of written off the 26 as these new slim guns come out but I think it's a gun everybody should look at and shoot because I think it's one of the it's it's an incredibly fun gun to shoot is it's incredibly easy to shoot and it's manageable to shoot because it is you do get that almost that even with the slim even with the this the ten round magazine or your pinkie kind of holds on you do get a nice shoot so I only have one of these twelve round magazines I have three ten rounders and I shoot it the same if it's got the 10 round or the 12 round in so I don't find this pinky extension gives me any more control if that makes sense it's just giving me more rounds for carrying I shoot the 10 round where my pinkie kind of dangles up just as well as the 12 round so that's just my kind of my journey with the 26 where I almost got rid of it for a 48 and why I'm glad I didn't because I realized how awesome of a gun it was again after kind of putting it out to to pasture for the last year I'm glad I didn't get rid of it I've really fallen back in love with it and I think it's a gun that people will need to look at if they're considering EDC um I'm lucky you wear as I get to EDC this gun and also use it in competition that's it's really a bonus for me both of these guns EDC both of them she's in the competition so is the 26 still relevant in this world of The Slim high-capacity higher capacity guns absolutely yes I believe it is I think it's a great gun and it shoots great and it might be easier to shoot I think it's just one of those things if you're looking for an EDC gun do you want you know something that's slim but might have a little bit longer frame it might be you know my print let's be honest these guns don't print that much um you know like I said I can carry a nineteen and it doesn't really print so it's really I think you need to hold them and shoot them and decide for yourself which one you like better but don't count out the 26 I don't think it's going anywhere I think it's here I think it's here to stay and yeah I don't think the 43 X are the the 48 or a 26 killer they're all great guns it's just which one is best for you and I think that's something you need to decide but just because the 43 X and the 48 or the latest and greatest don't don't discount the 46 or the 26 I'm sorry because it's it's fantastic in its own rights and it's it's here to stay so alright for a little bit longer video guys but it's something I've been wanting to do because I think the 26 has a huge following and I just think it gets kind of overshadowed right now with these newer slimline guns so which are great guns but the 26 is phenomenal its legendary so like share subscribe comment below what are you guys carrying would you guys like you know like I said I love them by nineteen and I carry it all the time but this is easy so all right I'll talk to you guys later bye

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Keywords: Glock, Glock 26, Glock 19, Glock 43, Glock 34, Glock 43x, Glock 48, EDC, Competition, Relevant, Review, Dry fire, Holster, Scotch n things, Scotch, Pistol, Training, YouTube, Youtuber, #iamacreator, Sooch00, Hickok45, Demoranch

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Length: 22min 16sec (1336 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2019