Not meant to be a knock on one or the other, but I am SLOWLY moving from hammers to strikers...did I say SLOWLY?
Anyway. after carrying a Beretta 92 then moving to the PX4 series. I have decades in carrying hammer fired pistols. I did buy the Beretta Nano but opted to carry my PX4SC as I just couldn't get comfortable with carrying a striker.
I kept wanting to get into the 10mm but Beretta just doesn't seem to want to introduce one. I had fired my uncles XDM45 and it fit my hand really well and then SA introduced the XDM10 in basically the same external dimensions. Now I am not saying I want to carry a 10 all the time, but I started wondering about SLOWLY getting into the XDM series with a 9 and perhaps a 45 EVENTUALLY.
Shooting never really mattered to me striker vs hammer. I never minded the DA/SA of the Berettas since i figure if you can hit the DA, you will hit the SA no problem and I laser dry fire practice with DA.
So the BIGGEST concern I have with strikers? Holstering.
I always had a preference for a true safety on my pistols vs a decocker. I would put the safety on, reholster while putting my thumb on the hammer so that if the safety wasn't on and something got in the trigger guard and was pulling the trigger, I would feel the movement in the hammer and check. Once holstered, I flipped the safety off.
If I move to a striker, it feels like I am losing some of my safety net in reholstering.
That brings me to what I LIKE about the XDM, the grip safety. Even though I don't have a hammer, I still place my thumb on the back of the slide when holstering and I feel the cocked striker indicator AND feel any rearward motion of the slide. I ALSO notices that by placing my thumb on the back of the slide, my palm does not come in contact with the grip safety meaning that if the trigger does get caught by something on the reholster, the gun would not fire.
I know folks that grew up on strikers probably think I am way over analyzing this.
Did anybody else experience any apprehensions/growing pains if/when they moved to or considered carrying strikers after years with hammers?
Anyway. after carrying a Beretta 92 then moving to the PX4 series. I have decades in carrying hammer fired pistols. I did buy the Beretta Nano but opted to carry my PX4SC as I just couldn't get comfortable with carrying a striker.
I kept wanting to get into the 10mm but Beretta just doesn't seem to want to introduce one. I had fired my uncles XDM45 and it fit my hand really well and then SA introduced the XDM10 in basically the same external dimensions. Now I am not saying I want to carry a 10 all the time, but I started wondering about SLOWLY getting into the XDM series with a 9 and perhaps a 45 EVENTUALLY.
Shooting never really mattered to me striker vs hammer. I never minded the DA/SA of the Berettas since i figure if you can hit the DA, you will hit the SA no problem and I laser dry fire practice with DA.
So the BIGGEST concern I have with strikers? Holstering.
I always had a preference for a true safety on my pistols vs a decocker. I would put the safety on, reholster while putting my thumb on the hammer so that if the safety wasn't on and something got in the trigger guard and was pulling the trigger, I would feel the movement in the hammer and check. Once holstered, I flipped the safety off.
If I move to a striker, it feels like I am losing some of my safety net in reholstering.
That brings me to what I LIKE about the XDM, the grip safety. Even though I don't have a hammer, I still place my thumb on the back of the slide when holstering and I feel the cocked striker indicator AND feel any rearward motion of the slide. I ALSO notices that by placing my thumb on the back of the slide, my palm does not come in contact with the grip safety meaning that if the trigger does get caught by something on the reholster, the gun would not fire.
I know folks that grew up on strikers probably think I am way over analyzing this.
Did anybody else experience any apprehensions/growing pains if/when they moved to or considered carrying strikers after years with hammers?