Glock 42

hey [ __ ] 45 walk 17 really does look small in my hand doesn't it oh wait a minute well it's only 25 off it's actually at 42 don't pay attention to me oh nice tell me I missed that vase but maybe I'll just put holes in it let's try it again hey we'll get you smart Ellie yeah Hickok 45 with a Glock 42 I like the way Glock really got onto this you know people were requesting a small single stack Glock model you know maybe a pocket model and of course cloth got right on it made one on the way minutes 25 years late wasn't it anyway that's what we've got we've got a single stack pocket Glock you could say you could argue and it's in 380 so we're going to take a look at it and first of all we even start there's good news and there's bad news probably the biggest piece of bad news is everybody wanted this gun in what caliber 9 millimeter you are correct so that is the biggest negative it is a 380 instead of 9 millimeter biggest positive I guess if you unless you're a Glock hater is the fact it's a Glock all right so we finally have a single stack Glock pocket Glock very small block but it's in 380 so let's talk about it and let me show you what it looks like the cool thing about this thing is funny it you know a lot of companies now make little bitty pocket guns but a lot of them don't look like they're big guns and this does look like a Glock 17 or a Glock 19 doesn't it looks like you put it in a some kind of machine and just miniaturized it you know it really does you've got the same operation break down here breaks down the same way and it is a gin for you got that gin for looking you know spring and captured spring I was trying to say you know so you know there did your your fire striker block there's just a little a little bit different spot but it's it's a Glock and it's it's interesting it's just what you'd expect just miniaturized okay and one of the things we want to do today is show you how small it is or how large it is okay and we're glad to have one by the way early on and we thank buds gun shop for getting this to us it was here before we even got back from shot show so that was nice that really nice we appreciate that let's put it back together and goes back together the same way that all these babies do now you notice I've got some you know he it's just a thin grip very thin and I shot his song without the grip it has the serrations or the little dots it's got some roughage on the grip but the the grips the talon grips always make them feel better to me so I kind of cannibalize and Frankenstein some that were meant for a Glock 26 and wrapped them around there so it's not too bad and they fit ok I understand they're coming out with them very soon it's just you know they had grips to your to your Glock so with all that said what is this thing it is 380 I have fired of 100 rounds plus about 150 I guess total of different sorts of ammo and I dug around and found what I could I have fired several magazines a blazer and it worked ok I fired several rounds of the PPU several mags of that it worked same with Wallman paint barding pmc I found a box that I thought it would fired a couple of gold dots got some anchor ones there and worked with those and even fired some Buffalo bore bought those yesterday and I love Duff Buffalo boy if you got Stacey this is about what caliber it is that they put her in the same containers it's 2380 in these big you could put a 500 Matt Smith & Wesson American I'll get those out later but I just want to let you know it's fired everything that I I can get my hands on okay and and it and it fed everything I had one little bobble I'll tell you about with the Buffalo bore when we get to that let me go ahead and load a couple of magazines that I have I put a mag pouch on here just to make a little bit more convenient generally speaking you're not gonna wear a big mag pouch probably carrying this this is a carry gun it is 380 and hey you know I don't get too much into the politics and the caliber religion and all that why will we not try we didn't write BNC yet so we'll try that that's one of the things I want to do for a different ammo and and let you all you know see what works or what doesn't work in it but you know the arguments between 380 and nine-millimeter whether 380 is powerful enough and all that sort of thing go on forever it is a weaker cartridge you know then of course the you know 9 or 40 or 45 but it's a gun and there's arguments for it there are a lot of cool little firearms chambered in we have some of them out here done got all my three 80s to do some size comparison by the way there's this myth out there and the correct me if I'm wrong if somebody can prove me wrong but for years I've had to correct people on these these 380 Glocks that are in existence before this one the Glock 25 and 28 now they just couldn't import them into this country and they're made mainly for countries where you could not use the military cartridge you know civilians couldn't number 9 you know generally speaking so the 380 fit the bill but those were those are the size of the Glock 26 which is this gun or the block 19 they're their big guns okay the 25 is the same size it's the same gun as that 19 and the 28 is the same gun as the 26 they just did a little bit of a modification to make it more of a blowback gun okay because it's got a heavy slide and your shooter 380 in it so it's not the locked breech as I understand but it's the same gun that's what it is and and for years people I think a lot of people have had this idea that guns like this are circulating all over Europe and Glock would just not you know let them or send them to this country or could not whatever the situation was but that's really not the case they're the big Glocks the 26 the 19 consider those big compared with this big yes so this is the smallest Glock that they have made to my knowledge if you can show me once okay glad to see it okay so I wanted to talk about that myth a little bit because it really is a myth one it's pretty sure and I did cover up the little bit of texture you have there but it it's not quite as aggressive by the way as it is on some of the other Gen fours and I'll have it for Glock out here and the serrations oh well the negatives of this gun is and they did it intentionally though they they wanted it smoother but the you know we're clickers the serrations that are again they're hard to me together a good grip on that I like I like to have a little bite there there's no bite so so that's a negative for me okay Glock 42 it's a let's do a little bit of size comparison before we go on and take some more shots here's the LCP stand them up here a little bit they're different shapes but see how they compare okay you see I'm gonna get them even back there okay the 42 is longer quite a bit okay and I guess the 42 is also a little bit taller you know you'd say okay so the LCP is very small let's also put the yo video this is the p 380 from car and it is I'll stick the magazine commercial apple say apples line those up and the car might be the most oh the best quality firearm will at least heretofore in the 380 lineup it's hard to beat only light on top of it here this is what tells you think - yeah look at that okay so the 380 car is a fine piece of equipment it is and it is much smaller as now it's much smaller much shorter and they both hold I think it holds six let me double check this is Jon's mainly so yeah so that is the difference right there okay now in thickness we'll do some thickness comparisons let's go ahead and shoot the thing so it's bigger than a car it's bigger than an LCP and it's a three eight years on all right let's see if I can hit anything like a two-liter all right that rascal uh uh well I have to decide whether they didn't survive or not I'm not sure where to hold exactly but I'll figure it out okay looks like pretty much right on I tell you what it's a soft shooter you know that's one of the positives because it's a 380 it's a very soft shooter you know there'd be a lot of let's try a different ammo that's need to work stress one blazer the the fact is 380 is that's the elephant in the room you've got a firearm here that looks like it ought to be a nine but it's 380 so what can we say positive about the fact that it's a 380 can we think of anything one thing is that it's a very very soft recoiling firearm it's very pleasant to shoot oh I mean it's nobody would be bothered by recoil sometimes these little pocket guns like this or guns this small pistols bittern 9-millimeter are pretty snappy I think we all know that yeah so that that definitely is a fact it is an incredibly soft shooting firearm feels really good and again the fact it's a 380 you can have a smaller you know rear to front measurement you know on your your grip so if you have really small hands you know that might appeal to you as well so a very soft shooting small pistol okay let's see if she's gonna continue to work here let's go ahead and throw one out here at the gong okay I was going low I think yeah okay thanks pretty accurate by that I mean the site seemed to be on okay it's really easy to shoot it to the left I discovered it the sites are right on with a really thin grip like that and of course my large hands it's very simple to pull that sucker to the left so it's got a fire I might need to work with if I'm going to shoot it a few thousand times in combat but it's it really is soft I mean I can't I can't tell you how simple it is to to shoot that this feels really let's go ahead and forget it dirty let's do some a couple hollow points it won't feed hollow points we don't want it do we I guess you know I say that but a lot of pretty knowledgeable shooters experts in the field shall we say will carry hardball in a 380 because with a 380 penetration is very very important you know where it's hollow points you know I don't know you don't have a lot of power so penetration might be the most important factor but let's see if it'll feed these babies let's pop this guy right here what'd I tell you it's easy to pull laughs nice little pistol nice little shooter feels pretty good now let's try some of a couple of these I'm getting pretty expensive here honor but the buffalo boar let's be really some of the best making a fire or you know cartridges ooh he's got some wide mouths on if you want a hollow-point mainly I'm just showing that it will cycle them or seeing if it will and as I was alluding to earlier I shot one magazine of these and they worked fine the first time I pulled the trigger though the slide stayed back on me it didn't hang up it wasn't you know the next round wasn't hung up on the feed ran for anything the slide just locked back now I'm just noticing though I think maybe I could have don't know but I could have gotten my thumb against the slide lock as I was shooting I would have to watch that if you got a long time my knuckle hits right at that and it feels comfortable to shoot that way it sort of helps prevent me from shooting left if I get my thumb up there and with the Ricoh like that might be what I did okay don't know for sure let's try it again I'll watch my thumb more carefully try to avoid that I'll stick it out yeah did it again yeah what's up my thumb for sure say we don't have a malfunction we just have a well I guess you'd call it malfunction but the round did not hang up on anything [Applause] okay so it did it on the short shot again Dennis order that's about I don't know I might mark that magazine while I'm at it just to see if that's what it is okay you know that's weird so it's the the round that's in the magazine the second one up did that no time all right so maybe you know more about Buffalo borer ammo although it wouldn't have anything to do with the wide hollow-point mouth on it they would have to have something to do with the what would it have to do the power factor of it there's a matter these are this the only things I've had a little bit of an issue with these are about ninety grain 1175 feet per second okay so that's the only ones that done it with me okay let's try something different what else I guess we tried always go talk to more of these yeah so before we do that though I want I know one of the most important things is not it does shoot fine it's a sweet shooter it seems to be right on and we'll shoot some more but let's look at the weight because one of the things I know you're most interested in I know I was I don't want to overdo the shooting here because we've got really more important matters to look at and one of those is weight okay especially if you're going to put this in your pocket and I have had in my pocket for two or three days since we got back from the West and this is actually a pocket holster for the PM 9 it's so it doesn't fit perfectly but it fits okay and you know for the way you carry it is nice to slide out but it covers the trigger guard and everything you know when it's in that position so it's okay let's get a another one from Alabama holster if I can't for this so let's compare the weight with a couple of different firearms here okay 13 points in 7/8 ounces okay now tell you what it weighs fully fully loaded it weighs right at a pound it's like a quarter ounce over okay so it's under it's under a pound just messed with 13 something there you know with nothing in it just a magazine 13 almost 14 houses okay let's do the a couple these other firearms they a lot of people have little 380s at the LCP nine and three-quarters okay that is very small very light in at the LCP hard to shoot well but it's a very small very light and we've got the key 380 11 and 3/8 again yep 11 3/8 ounces and again the Glock 14 so it's a little heavier than that all right so you've got a little bit bigger gun good bit bigger and heavier in a 380 so if the size is the most important thing you know these two firearms right here are smaller and lighter okay this one is bigger it's longer it's maybe easier to shoot well grips a little bit longer the grips not much longer okay it's that slide that's longer in the barrel okay now I've got the pp KS and these adage mainly because they're 380s there may be a way that sucker look what with me on pound six ounces I still classic see what the first ways to be a little bit lighter it's over pound pound I mean there's no ammo and he's you know so they weigh more they're heavier okay and that one I like to compare it with is the PM 9 because you know I carry the PM 9 a lot you know it's a really handy pocket gun it's about as big as I want to get in terms of weight and everything it's a 9-millimeter so when I think in terms of whether I would want to carry that or this I have to look at okay the weight and the size because I can carry this thing in 9 it goes in my pocket just fine you know and that meant in that holster it does okay and these are jeans no no in a baggy cargo shorts or pants that even even better okay so that's a nine-millimeter right and that's a that's a quality firearm so let's look at the difference in the size first because this is one of the comparisons I have to make it's it's theater it's a little longer the clock is okay it's longer explain it down there and I'll put the calipers on it the PM 9 is actually a little thicker one of the things I was curious about was the the thickness of the Glock slide it's shot show you can handle a bunch of them and it's kind of hard to tell unless you've got your other favorite firearms with you you know let's take a look at the thickness because that that is an issue you're so I'm a pocket firearm and the overall thickness here I'll go ahead and catch the frame there there's your PM 9 thickness okay and we'll catch the whole thing and you see the difference if you can see that there is quite a bit this Glock is very thin it's longer but it is very thin it is definitely a thin Glock I don't know if I've compared it with the p38 II now we move down to this is the gilt comparing with the PM 9 9 millimeter now we're at with the p38 II which is a 380 of course car let's see I'm thickness there I would say they're about the same okay it's touching but on the block and open just a hair so they're about the same the Glock might be just a tad thicker than than the p38 II Glocks a little bit thicker so these two are fairly close in thickness but with the length dramatically dramatically different so there's the argument a lot of people have wow if I'm going to carry a 380 pocket gun I want something really small a lot of people think that way and you know it makes sense this is a big gun for a 380 be great if it were 9 if it's shot well and it would function reliably and everything I don't know so size wise the other thing I had somebody on a comment said something about a thing on Facebook I said yeah but it looks like it looks like a Glock 26 you know not at all not at all look at this you put it up with the Glock 26 and you know just kind of glancing at it it might look similar and the profile there's not a lot of difference in the length maybe the 26 is just a little bit longer the grips are not all that different but when you when you look at those slides that's where you see the story you know makes the Glock look big or makes the 26 like big doesn't it it's like a Glock 30 or something in terms of thickness so just to show you that real quick here's the and I always consider these fairly thin and I'm just capturing the slide there and you see the difference that might be one of the most telling measurements right there for you because most of us know what a Glock 9 or 40 looks like if I captured the slide or the frame it's even more dramatic I captured the frame there see on the 26th so there you go you got a much thinner firearm all right so you got a pound basically when it's loaded okay let's use a little bit more and what else about this thing that I again I've had for about three four days here I've shot it and it's a soft shooter it's a it's a easy gun to shoot it really is it feels fine I don't know what that is about the Buffalo or ammo what's going on with that because I did not hit the slide lock here today on video I doubt that I did earlier when I was shooting it so that's as much for flexing it's especially perplexing with a Glock because you know Glocks I've never had malfunctioning issues with them I just something to do with the power factor of those rounds or something dozen I try that again and see when you do it again all right now I'm using a stealth gear inside the waistband which is for the XDS but it kind of fits all right it's a little loose but not much because uh it's thinner than the XDS but it it you know just fits okay because that's you have contours with your body like this so just a way to carry it all right let's uh let's actually put it in the pocket holster because that's the way I would carry this firearm if I'm going to put a pistol on my belt it's gonna be at least a nine probably a 40 or 45 so I think I did not make it hot let's see if I did I don't like those serrations okay triggers covered with a pocket holster very important especially with this one where it's a little bit loose so put it down in there okay so gravity's gonna keep it in that all right so it's 380 but beats a hammer he's always saying beats a sharp stick not going to knock those arms around it at 380 not it's nothing let's try these Buffalo bore one more time just for kicks she's fine he's designed for up close and dirty even at long range it seems like it's you know it's all in okay so almost got a couple of these if I get that to happen again because everything else has been working just fine don't mean to bash Buffalo bore I've used their ammo before it's good ammo is something about it in the Glock in this particular model you might want to be aware of well it's just okay let's see and I marked that magazine didn't I yes it was the other magazine we'll see what happens here okay now keep my thumb out away from that gun okay didn't do it that time maybe it's a magazine so pretty cool one thing we didn't look at I've got all this stuff out here that's what I wanted wanted to show you a lot of different ammo and I wanted to also compare with all these firearms we didn't compare it with the XDS did we okay there's the XD Wow mix the XD else look good doesn't it but now the XDS is this one is 9 millimeter and you know it's not necessarily a small miniature firearm okay so you can see the difference there tried to bring out fire well firearms I had but our John has but firearms that most of you are familiar with to some extent and so just gives you a better idea of the size and thickness you can see again there's your slide this again is an XD s 9 millimeter to the left and then the Glock 42 on the right so you see it's a very thin gun no doubt about that makes the XDS look big so it's all relative is what you compare it with you know the XDS is a really sweet shooting firearm but it is heavier and it's bigger and so you get that if this gun we're chambered in 9 this exact firearm it might just be fine but I'd say it'd really be snappy because it is light you know again it's a pound fully loaded it's a pound okay right out of pound so it would be a very snappy firearm so who knows maybe they've got one on the drawing boards in nine coming up you know coming out soon so nobody knows it's hard to get information from Glock right so at least we are happy that they have produced something like this a lot of us have been wanting something like this for a long time yeah it's 380 again that's the big negative maybe but it's a Glock and Glocks tend to work unless you hate Glocks you know they're reliable and they're pretty desirable you know amongst a large group of shooters so it is a Glock and again the only time I've had any trouble was with that Buffalo boar in that one magazine so I'll experiment further with that and I'll keep you updated on that well I'm not going to shoot 5,000 rounds of buffalo boar but I'll be shooting a lot of different ammo and let you know if we have any problems with anything else so again we appreciate buds gun shop setting this thing to us and I don't know went out and got one from Glock I would have eventually but it was great to go to the shot show and see these things and then be able to come home and fire one and then bring my impressions at least to you on it so Glock 42 hope that gives you a little information and we'll do some more shooting with it and probably drag it out again one day with a bull of 25 degrees hopefully life is good [Music]

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Keywords: Glock 42, G42, GL42, .380, 380, pocket pistol, pocket Glock, Glock .380, Glocking, semiauto, pocket holster, Alabama Hoster, StealthgearUSA, IWB, 9mm

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Length: 29min 1sec (1741 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 23 2014