Some Thoughts On Single Stack Nines

By Tom Knighton

I still shake my head every time someone tells me all about how much they love their single stack 9mm. You see, I’m not a fan, and for a lot of reasons. I get that they’re concealable as all get out, and light to boot, but I’m not a fan of small guns as a general rule.

To each their own, of course.

However, Tamara Keel wrote about some of the drawbacks on single stack nines over at Shooting Illustrated, and they’re worth sharing:

So, if these are the obvious upsides, what are the downsides to carrying one of these handy single-stack 9mms?

Well, for starters, they’re harder to shoot well than their larger kin, and for numerous reasons. The shorter sight radius is one, but probably the least significant. More importantly, the stubby, small-diameter grips of these guns generally mean a two-finger grip with the dominant hand and the support hand is unable to provide as much clamping force as it would on a larger gun. With less grip on the gun, small errors in trigger-finger placement can be dramatically magnified. I’ve found, for example, in my own Glock G43, that the addition of a flat-faced TAC trigger shoe from …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms