After shooting many versions of Glock pistols, none of which I owned but belonged to my shooting friends, I have always been impressed with how they shoot and their reliability/accuracy. But I have always been a S&W revolver and all-steel 1911 kinda guy.
And I'm 48 years old, so you would think that I was pretty set in my ways and kinda traditional. If it isn't blued steel and wood I didn't want to buy one. Heck, I didn't even step up to a stainless steel handgun until a year or so ago.
Mind you, I've shot a lot of 1911s and couldn't find a good reason to deviate from them as far as a semi-auto. Glocks, which I think are wonderful sidearms, just were not appealing enough to me.
But then my buddy Tom got a Glock 29 10mm and my whole way of thinking changed. Here was a compact 10+1 pistol with serious power. Shooting it was a complete surprise. It shoots 10mm with a 'push' very similar to a .45ACP Commander. Reports of the 10mm being a rocket ride are greatly exaggerated. Controllability and accuracy were so manageable that I recently bought my own Model 29.
It was my very first Glock. I had vowed that I would only shoot other peoples Glocks and never own my own. Now, in one handgun, I feel that I have a much more versatile sidearm than a .38 Super 1911 could ever be.
Georgia Arms has 50-rd new ammo for as little as $13.00/50 and new ammo with Gold Dots only goes $16.25. It's not loaded down to .40S&W levels, either.