Glock G43X : Is the G43 Obsolete?

the Glock G 43 X versus the G 43 let's check it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Glock G 43 X created a lot of excitement this year in the Glock universe and there were a lot of questions about the original Glock 43 does this make the original Glock 43 obsolete 10 plus 1 6 plus 1 yes we have a little bit of a longer frame there are a lot of other improvements that went in to the G 43 X but again does this make the G 43 no longer a viable option so this video is brought to you in part by the Sportsman's guide you get $20 off every hundred dollar or more purchase using SOOC in the coupon code the first thing you want to do is make sure that all the guns aren't loaded guys we live in the Golden Age of firearms there's no doubt and there's so many different choices and nothing is the perfect firearm even though Glock perfection you know is their motto they definitely have a number of different choices to where you can choose whatever in the world of single stack firearms just like this Glock 43 and this has been around for a while and it's really proven itself to be an excellent firearm but once Glock moved up to the ten round magazine in pretty much the same size a little bit longer grip you know it just gives us some more options but the main thing for this video is to see if the G 43 or the Glock 43 is obsolete now one important thing to note that we've talked about with the original G 43 X review is that we have a 10 round magazine and with the G 43 we have a six round magazine but they are not interchangeable you can see that just won't fit one of the reasons is because the magazine is just a lot thinner on the G 43 and so this is a magazine that will also fit the G 48 the 10 rounder but it will not fit the G 43 now for one thing the two slides are the same I mean they are the same dimensions they're the same length there are some improvements with the G 43 and you'll notice the bevel on the front which is a Gen 5 Edition that you don't have on the standard G 43 of course you have the original black finish on here of course they used to use tenifer finish now it's a just a similar tenifer and then we have this in dlc coating that silver on the g43 acts now a lot of guys have complained about this silver finish and they really hope for an option for the black slide you know and I think probably Glock will offer a black slide in the future but it's funny because the more that I've handled this slide the more I like the contrast now one of the things though that a lot of people are reporting is that this slide does not hold up now I want to show you a little detail you can see I mean it is impeccable and we have shot now about 1,500 rounds through this handgun I've put it in a number of different Kydex holsters and the finish is excellent but one thing that I did was I took a picture just quickly I put it on Instagram and there were a bunch of scuffs on the slide right here and a lot of people picked it out and started talking about how so many people had talked about how this finish is not durable well I immediately took one of my break free and this is just the wipes there lubricant wipes and I'll wipe the slide down and I took a second picture guys will tell you this slide is durable if anybody is saying it's not durable that's just because they haven't wiped it off here with the original Glock finish of course these are super durable as well and while seracote is nice now seracote gives us a lot of options we can color them up but I'm going to show you something you see right here it does where anybody tells you it doesn't they don't know what they're talking about can you scratch these slides of course you can you take a carbide scribe and you know mark into it sure but it is a very durable finish now I do have talent grips applied to both of these pistols they're small and I like talent grips I have a full installation of the g43 exxon get some calm I have it linked down below in the description because we can't show those kind of things on YouTube now but I'm going to show you the original finish on the g48 actually but this is the same on the G 43 X it is very muted I mean it's still gripping has a good grip it still has the little pyramids but they are definitely abbreviated and so I really wanted to put some nice tiling grips on there to give it a little more of confidence when I'm gripping the handgun on the original G 43 and of course we can't see it because of the Talon grips it is a little more aggressive one of the big things is the grip width now you've got a 10 round magazine so you have a little bit of a thickness here that you don't have on the G 43 this is going to add two concealability but as far as suitability the G 43 X and the G 48 are superior I mean they have a really solid full grip on the pistol with the G 43 with a standard magazine you can see my pinky is attached but it's not really solid and what that's gonna do is is the muzzle flips you're not gonna have quite as much leverage right here and so it's just gonna naturally have a little more muzzle flip then your G 43 X or your G 48 you've just got a full grip with your pinky but one of the big things about the G 43 is that there are a blue bazillion magazine extensions that you can get now this is your standard 2g 43 magazine this is a Glock pinky extension it doesn't add anything to the grip or the magazine capacity but it does add to the grip right here and so that makes it a little gives you a little more gripping surface here we have one of the bastion gear this is just an aluminum piece but it does give you just a little bit extra over the standard grip it's not a lot but it does make a difference of course it has the aluminum here and then here's another Bastion gear with the finger pinky rest and this is also aluminum now here we have one of the tyrant designs this is an aluminum piece it is excellent in fact I'll show you right here it just fits really well into the hand gun it molds right up next to the frame this gives you two extra rounds I actually was able to get three extra rounds in here but that is definitely a good quality option now we're gonna use the standard G 43 with one of the tyrant extended base plates this actually adds three rounds so we have nine that's only one short of the g43 eggs I like the way that shoots now the G 43 X that was really close with the tyrant baseplate it shot very close to the standard c 43 X and then we have the strike industries EMP this actually adds two rounds as well it fits it's very oh I am looking in my opinion and you have your same kind of texturing there it is polymer gives you a full solid grip on the handgun and guys I'm telling you there are a ton of the magazine extensions out there tearing tactical and peer scripts I use those for a lot of my larger frame Glock pistols but as far as just magazine extension here we have one of the ETS mags I believe this is a nine round extension and so it actually hangs out but it does give you a little bit of surface to ground and so that's a big plus of course if you don't like that you know you can go with some of these others and then we have the twelve round extension and then it kind of really hangs out this would be excellent for a back up magazine now we're gonna try the ETS 12-round magazine as you can see it does extend well below the grip but again you have twelve rounds gives you a lot more leverage no doubt now we're going to go back to the g43 acts just to give me a point of comparison this again fills your hands a little more but that little ets twelve round mag that gives you a lot of leverage that was it was pretty equal also mag guts well actually it just replaces the spring and the follower and he gives you an extra round this goes from six to seven this is one of the model 42 magazines and I have one installed I have not yet gotten one for the g43 and guys if you're gonna start changing out your magazine bases you definitely need some kind of tool I mean you can do it with the glock tool that's just a punch but there are two little locking areas right here on either side so you have to press down and that's what this tool is for it actually presses those tabs down and you can pull this out if you put a punch in here this was from Brownells it really helps umbrellas has a ton of these different choices but this is one from vism actually one of my viewers sent this to me la garcia and this actually has a little piece that comes out and so you can lock it right here into the button and then just grab and then pull and then it pulls it loose I really like this if you use a punch in here you can do it and I've done it it is a bear but then it snaps right in you can pull it right off and then we have this fixer something I just found on eBay right here place it in and just pop it open gives you that leverage you need to get these open and then you can change out to your you know different type base plates these are excellent tools and again there's a lot of different ones out on the market so we're gonna enter the EMP from strike industries this gives us again eight rounds and then we have the ten rounds from the g43 you're getting ten rounds and you're still getting a little bit of an extension on the original g43 magazine so that's definitely you know something to consider but it does give you extra RAM you've got eight rounds now instead of six you've got an extension so you can shoot it better it's not quite the ten but you're not buying a whole new firearm and again the tyrant designs fits right in there just a little bit of an extension right here but again you're getting two extra rounds with the g43 X now one of the big questions has been is if you put the g43 X slide on the g43 and vice versa will they work and yes they will according to Glock these slides are pretty much the same so we're gonna drop the G 43 X we're gonna pull the trigger go ahead and take this slide off and we're gonna do the same with the G 43 and we're just gonna switch the slides now we're going to test for function we're gonna test for function we're gonna first shoot the G 43 X slide on the standard G 43 frame now the G 43 slide on the G 43 X frame good stuff good stuff if you guys it won't black there you go [Applause] what do you think between these two why it feels better in my hand I feel like I have more grip this one I felt even though my hands are small it felt like it was falling off but that also includes the g48 it will also fit it's the same frame as your G 43 X and so the G 43 will fit and vice versa one of the big advantages of the G 48 is that I can take my G 43 and put it on my G 48 frames and I've got a G 43 X with a black slide and then here if I want that extension the longer sight radius I've got it with the G 48 slide yet I've got six rounds and so I've got a shorter grip for the original G 43 so that is the reason why a lot of people are going to the G 48 over the G 43 X if they already have a G 43 because you can switch this out now you've got two different configurations then you can go back to the original so really you have four different configurations it's pretty sweet now because of the frame being a little wider on the G 43 eggs and the G 48 there's been a lot of question will it fit in your standard G 43 holster so we have a number of different holsters here that are g 43 here we have one of the CM g holsters if you haven't check these out these guys are doing an excellent job and you've got your attention screw i like the plastic clip this is perfect for appendix carry or you know for 4 o'clock 5 o'clock position here we have our standard g 43 and it fits in there very nicely it's got that retention here with the g 43 x perfect fit the frame does not interfere with this Kydex now there are some Kydex holster makers that may be a little tighter fit but typically you should have a retention screw to be able to loosen some of it anyway because sometimes you don't want this too tight but one of my favorite holsters is the g-code finem this is a new holster from g-code he's got this little stand out so it helps to keep the butt closer to your stomach it is Kydex but it has what they call the tactical fuzz and man this is quiet it doesn't have that Kydex sound to it listen to that nice sweet nice really strong clip it does have some retention you can sat on here so this is an excellent holster and I actually got it for the G 43 X think about is perfect perfect feel again with that longer but I really like this stand off because it'll actually push it again against your belt and it pushes it back so it rides really close to your stomach and one holster company that I've really been actually ordering a number of holsters from is stealth gear this is the vent core system it's got the two clips great appendix style holster very comfortable to wear here for the G 43 and the G 43 X perfect I mean guys I've tested a bunch of these different holsters and my G 43 X fits all of my holsters for the G 43 are there some out there that won't yes certainly but 90% of them are gonna work so guys we have a slim line standard slim line compact slim line subcompact that's the way I like to look at it and again we can switch these slides out we can change the frames you know we've got tons of magazine capacity changes especially with the G 43 I'm sure that there are new editions coming for the G 43 X and the G 48 you know there's a lot of other good guns out there single stack guns in fact we have a number we've shown on here but the Glock is really coming out with some a lot of variations again guys it just allows you to fine-tune your preferences and when you're carrying everyday it's really good to have options guys another thing I want to mention is Glock did send me these for the test & Evaluation but I purchased them and also with the G 43 I purchased this a number of years ago and I'll be honest when you start showing and manipulating different firearms and putting magazine bases on there YouTube is really quick to D monetize the video and so you know patreon is a really great way to help support your favorite gun channels so guys there's a lot of options for your g43 you know you can really update it get it really close to the same size as the g 43 X but being able to switch those slides out it really makes a big difference when it comes to the G 48 that way you have the longer slide you have the 10 round capacity in this configuration which really makes this a very efficient firearm for those states that allow for only 10 rounds and so you know you can get the G 19 again you can put the 10 round magazine in it but with this thinness why not go with the G 48 it just makes it easier to carry then again take your G 43 slide slap it onto your G 48 and you have a black slide G 43 eggs I mean this is becoming a mix-and-match and I love it just gives us a lot of options and guys again as I've said a thousand times we live in the Golden Age of firearms there are so many different choices out there and it's really nice to have something that you can kind of switch in and out just opens up a whole new universe and that makes it Universal and again I want to thank sportsman's guide for their support again you SOOC at the sportsmen guide website get $20 off any hundred-dollar more purchase and I'm saying that because youtube will d monetize this video be strong be a good courage god bless america long live the Republic [Music] [Music] [Applause] I just slip it in my pocket like it is in this rat cheek right cheek right oh she can function conjunction junction what's your function all right this one

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Keywords: Sootch00, Sootch, Review, Glock, G43X, G43, Comparison, G43 Obsolete, Carry, EDC, Slim Line, Sportsmans Guide, Getzone

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Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 13 2019