EDC Report After 18 Months :: Weapons.com

• General Size: 6.05 inches
• Barrel Size: 3.06 inches
• Barrel Development: Chrome steel, 1:10 RH rifling
• Slide Development: Alloy metal, fuel nitride end
• General Top: 4.40 inches
• General Width: 1.08 inches
• Weight (Unloaded): 18.70 ounces
   

Designed as a low-print EDC handgun from the bottom up, the GX4 is pretty “melted” with few sharp surfaces to catch on a draw from concealment. This additionally interprets into it having abbreviated floor controls. Essentially the most usually used of those, the push-button journal launch, is reversible and straightforward to make use of, permitting the magazine to drop free. The slide catch, nevertheless, may be very small – concerning the measurement of a Tic Tac – and pretty exhausting to make use of with out focus and clear/dry fingers, at the very least in my expertise. This can be a pistol you slingshot into battery, for positive. 
 

Over the previous 18 months or so, I’ve put nicely over 1,000 rounds by means of the GX4 and have by no means suffered from a stoppage in that point that was the fault of the pistol. I ran the pistol with a mixture of principally 115-, 124-, and 147-grain manufacturing facility 9mm masses, together with Winchester white field round-nosed FMJ, Winchester pink field USA Prepared flat-nosed FMJ, Federal Syntech coaching masses, and a few assorted metal case. Self-defense masses included Winchester’s USA Prepared 124-grain JHP+P, Browning’s X-Level 147-grain JHP, and Speer’s Gold Dot Quick Barrel Private Safety 124-grain +P, the latter to be used in private carry because it grouped one of the best. 

Talking of non-public carry, the GX4 proved such a straightforward carry – simply 24.8 ounces when absolutely loaded with 14 rounds of 124-grain Gold Dot. Of notice, that’s the identical journal capability as on the vaunted Browning Hello-Energy, my first carry gun again within the late Nineteen Eighties. 
 

The set off is flatter than these beforehand utilized by Taurus and breaks at 90 levels with little take-up and a 6-pound pull on common by means of the primary 500 rounds, then measured at nearer to five.5 after 1,000 rounds. For a manufacturing facility set off, it feels good.

Try this video of the set off in use: 
 

In the case of accuracy, this isn’t an Olympic-quality match pistol however fairly a sensible handgun optimized for carry functions. With that in thoughts, it’s greater than able to palm-sized teams within the middle of a goal at 7 and 10 yards.

I prefer to run the outdated 50-round DHS/FPS handgun qualification course a number of occasions per yr with my carry gun, as it’s well-rounded to incorporate fireplace from the robust and weak hand solely, barricade fireplace, timed reloading, a failure drill, and capturing at ranges between 1.5 and 25 yards. To date, I’ve put the GX4 by means of that course a number of occasions and had no drawback pulling a qualifying rating. 
 

Professionals

• Cheap
• Dependable
• Correct for sensible use
• Makes use of a standard sight dovetail (Glock sample)
• Good set off

Cons

• Requires a device for takedown
• The slide catch lever may very well be higher
   

I overview plenty of weapons, usually a couple of dozen or so fashions yearly for the previous decade and alter. Whereas I’ll purchase some from the businesses after the tip of the check and analysis interval, I solely wind up carrying just a few on an everyday, every day foundation. The GX4 falls into that slim class.

I am not the one one both. At a latest trade occasion, I used to be sitting at a desk with two different gun writers and the topic of EDC got here up – they each form of sheepishly admitted to carrying the GX4 fairly than a extra Gucci model they’d available. The rationale? It was extraordinarily concealable, and it simply flat-out labored. 

What extra are you able to ask for?