Sig drops some history and we go behind the scenes with the Glock 44 | GearScout Podcast

In this episode, Chris and Christian discuss the implications of Sig Sauer dumping surplus M17 handguns on the market.
Would you buy one? They would, if they could get their hands on one.
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Then Chris and Christian spend the rest of the episode going over their field test of the new Glock 44 in .22LR.
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See, when Glock came out with the new G44, the company touted it as a great gun to introduce new shooters to firearms. With the small, light recoiling and cheap .22 round, the G44 is a less intimidating alternative to full-size 9mm handguns for noobs.
But one of the other features the Austrian gunmaker touted as a raison d’etre for the G44 was for training. See, the G44 is the same size as the G19, a very popular duty gun. So, it stands to reason G19 carriers would want to train with a cheaper-ammo-shooting version of their duty gun.
So, Chris and Christian designed a test to see if the G44 could really act as a training alternative. And you’re going to have to listen to find out what they discovered!

[@sailinghome9677]

The Sig M17s are being released on gun sale sites a few at a time and are selling out within five minutes due to everyone watching their email alerts for when the gun is back in stock. So far I've seen that they are being released for sale in the middle of the night (02:00 or so).

[@scottymac713]

There are less than 4k of the M17 Decoms that SIg has shipped, my understanding is they have shipped all of these now and the secondary market (Gunbroker) is currently seeing avg sell prices above $1350 each, with the highest sell price of over $3K.

[@sailinghome9677]

I plan on buying the Glock-44 for the reasons you guys stated. But am going to wait to buy a threaded barrel for it until the aftermarket starts selling threaded barrels instead of forking over $150 for a Glock threaded barrel that requires an 11mm to 1/2 28 adapter.

[@scottymac713]

You should read the review 22 plinkster did on the Glock 44, i was interested until i saw it.