I like ‘em! But they’ve got to be done right, and I think that only a few really are.
Motivating pictures. I just got some Glocks back from the ‘smith, and drug then to class the very next day, because what’s a developmental schedule if you aren’t screaming at the end of it?
I’m happy with that, but it took a while to get there. I had first thought, “hey no problem, D&L enhanced levers on a Cominolli system w/ a SCD, and I am good to go!”
Not so. No criticisms, at all, of either Mr. Cominolli or Mr. Lauck (who provide excellent service & communication to customers!) but my problem was the “off-safe position” of the safety. For me, with Glocks, it needs to be close to the slide/frame interface, and parallel to that slide-frame line. The stock Cominolli points down in off-safe, no good for me, and it turned out that the stock D&L, while parallel, was too low. I just couldn’t get my left hand on the gun.
But that’s why we have gunsmiths, yes? 1911s are kind of the world’s standard for thumb safety ergonomics, and the M&P (particularly the .45) is excellent. I get along wonderfully with the USP levers, I’m ok with the P30, am suspicious of the P320, I have no experience with the CZ or SIG P22X, and strongly doubt kind of anyone else.
I tried stuff, but I was also nomadic, which hurts experimental gunsmithing. One guy put shelves on the Cominollis- great, but the angles were still wrong. Another guy got the “parallel-slide-frame-safety, and high enough” down, but those parts were delicate, and too wide. The last guy did great. I can’t imagine ambidexterity, but I’d love to experience it.
I like a thumb safety, but I’d rather nothing than a crummy one. How about ya’ll?