Okay folks, I'm in a little bit of a gun selection pickle. I just filed my application on Tuesday and want to sort out what gun I'll be carrying when my license comes in. On sort of an impulse, and because they're essentially the gold standard for concealed carry, I picked up a Glock. Again. A little background on my history with Glocks: the first handgun I bought 10 years ago was a Gen. 3 Glock 23. I ended up trading it toward a 1911 that I had been lusting after that turned out to be a bit of a dud. I then got a Smith & Wesson SW99 QA in .40 which had an atrocious trigger on it. I traded it toward another Gen. 3 Glock 23. Hung on to it for a while and then traded it toward an HK USP .40. About a year or so ago, I got a Gen. 4 Glock 26. Like the previous Glocks, it wasn't in the stable for too terribly long as Glock ergonomics just feel unnatural to me.
My gripe about the ergonomics of the Glock is this: the grip is just too bulky and blocky for my smallish hands (I wear a men's cadet medium golf glove as a reference). Because the grip feels too big in my hand and because of the way the the backstrap is really humped out at the bottom, I feel like I never get a good secure hold on the gun, and I feel like the distance I have to reach for the trigger with my modest booger hook is just a little too long for me to be able to effectively and accurately shoot the pistol.
So, what guns HAVE worked for me you ask, well there are a number of them, but they're all just a little too big for me to eventually CC effectively. The ones that I currently have that I really feel comfortable with and shoot well are my Sig P226 NSW, my P226 Legion, my Wilson CQB Compact, and my Springfield TRP. The 1911's work well for me because they're slim, so I obviously don't have the discomfort with them that I have with the Glock pistols, the problem with both of them is that they're a whole lot heftier than the Glocks, and for carry purposes, I'd much rather have a few more rounds in the gun than the 7+1 for the Wilson or the 8+1 for the TRP. The problem with the Sigs is similar to that of the 1911, sans the low round count. I really don't have any issues shooting the transitional DA/SA trigger on the Sigs either.
I'm don't strongly favor hammer or striker and I don't mind a DA/SA trigger with a decocker.
So with all that in mind, what would be the best alternatives to the Glock? Also keep in mind, I'm a bit of a smallish dude all around at around 5'8" and 130ish LBS depending on whether I'm soaking wet with a brick in each hand.
