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I've had my HK USP 40 for close to 20 years and thousands of rounds and it still runs like a machine.

7-8 years ago I picked up a Glock 27 compact in .40 as a carry piece and at first grumbled about how sloppy it felt next to my HK but as I have now run thousands of rounds through it as well it has never failed. Maybe 1 jam in all that time running PMC rounds when ammo was ridiculously expensive. I try to stick with better quality ammo.

I bought my wife a Kahr PM-9 a few years back...their single stack "hand fitted sub compact 9mm with match grade barrel" and it would barely shoot without jamming. Sent it back to the factory twice for them to just "polish the feed ramp." It would fail to feed and fail to eject on about every 2-3 magazines you would run through it. They give you the whole... "You need to run 250 rounds before it is broken in" but I ran 500 rounds of 3 different types of ammo and still had issues. The internal machine work was sloppy and there was something visually goofy about the alignment between the magazine and the feed ramp... the first guy I spoke to at the factory admitted they had some feed issues but nobody after that seemed to know anything about it. Recoil spring was so stiff my wife could barely cycle the slide. When it shot the groupings were nice and recoil was low. Ended up selling that one at a loss 6 months in.

We replaced the Kahr with a Springfield XDS9 single stack 9mm for her and it has been great. Quality wise it feels better than my Glock but not quite like the HK. It shoots great, easy for her to operate and puts down great groupings. It is definitely for small hands though.. where she can barely hold my Glock and HK because they are too big... I can barely hold the XDS9 because it is so small.



Anyway you guys do realize that this conversation will answer the mystery of the universe as just as much as asking.... "What is the best brand of car to buy?" or "What is Pro-Touring?" Or "What was that stuff growing on the cheesecake in my refrigerator and why did I eat it anyway?"