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backupr9:
I still use my R9 for EDC.  It is simply the most comfortable quality carry pistol IWB/0WB/pocket. It is small, smooth, hammer fired, powerful, and predictable if maintained and fed the ammo it prefers.  Accuracy should not ever be an issue with a “Get Off Of Me” gun as these are point and shoot at ranges of 2 inches to 5 yards (extreme distance 7-10 yards with practice).  I shoot 20 rounds at the range 3 to 4 times in a year making my recoil spring good for 3 to 4 years (I am 82 so may not need another), but I have multiple spare springs.

I also sometimes carry a Seecamp due to clothing constraints here in Florida, good for 3 to 12 feet.  Amelia Island is isolated and very safe; when I travel to JAX I carry my P365 in 12 + 1 configuration with a spare 15 round mag and a BUG.  I do wish I had the eyes, strength, balance and reflexes I had 12 years ago but upright and above ground is still a pretty good day for me!

MikeInTexas:
I am glad this thread got bumped.  I've changed my mind about one topic in this thread......the G43 mag catch thing.

I now firmly believe it's a snake oil pitch.  I've finished the 'ghost gun' 43, shot it, had it destroyed in an accident, re-built it as a 43X.  That Shield mag catch is a way to lock you into purchasing their overpriced (Shield) magazines in the future.  Yes, I got taken as well.  Learned my lesson.  Realized that the number of mag changes you would have to do far exceeds something I will ever perform on a carry gun.  Maybe a competition gun after years and years of hard use, but not a carry gun.

Got pointed out how many folks, me included, run poly mags in their ARs and such with a metal mag catch with zero issues.  No company insists you buy a (non-existent) polymer mag catch to run PMags, LOL.

In the future I will not change out the factory mag catch.  However I will continue to use into the Shield magazine with it's extension (20 total) and be comfortable with it.  I will also probably purchase the equivalent magazines from PSA for any future G43X I get and not worry about the magazine catch and save money in the process.


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tracker:
Mike,

I have a Glock 43 and purchased a Shield magazine for it that has not been used. Are you saying that it is safe to use the Shield with an unaltered magazine catch?

MikeInTexas:
Yes, unless you plan on thousands of mag changes and don't want to drop $7 on a factory replacement when it fails after a few hundred thousand rounds.

JMHO................I could be wrong.

tracker:
Thank you; that is what I thought also.

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