My 5 Favorite Striker Fired Pistols

What's up guys, this is Chris here and today we're going to be talking about my top five striker fired pistols. Now I don't just like these guns because they're fun to shoot, I like them because they're very versatile. A lot of these guns are great for the money, all of these guns have great triggers, they are accurate and fast, and all of them are going to be very reliable. So these guns are not just ranged guns, they're going to be great for home defense, self-defense, or even a duty gun as well. That being said, some of these are going to be new guns because there's actually been a couple of new guns that came out this year that I was really excited about, so you'll get to see those as well. Before we get into the video, I do want to mention my Patreon supporters. Thank you guys very much. Because of you guys, we have lots of cool guns and ammo and we really appreciate you. I also want to mention a local shelter in Ames, Iowa. It is the YSS and I'd really appreciate if you would go down to the link in the description, click that link, and donate to those kids. And then finally, I want to thank the sponsor of this video, Handle It Grips. Handle It Grips is my new favorite grip and you can get them in two textures. You can get them in the Elite or you can get them in the Edge. The Elite is more for carry. It's kind of a rubber texture and it feels really good on the skin, whereas the Edge is more like stippling and it grips in your hand really well. So if you're going to do a duty gun or a home defense gun, I'd recommend the Edge. Now, you can get them on almost any popular gun these days, including most of the guns on this list. So far, I've been really impressed. And if you're interested in a little more texture without maybe ruining your gun, it's a great way to go. If you're interested, use code honest for $5 off your order. Now, I'm going to start it off with one of the more recent ones, but I do have a lot of rounds through it now. And that is going to be the Canik TTI Combat at number five. It was hard for me not to put a Canik on this list. And when I thought long and hard about which one was my favorite to shoot, I actually think it's this one. It was a close race between this one and the steel frame. However, this one is a little bit lighter. It's quicker to come out of the holster and it has about the same or even a little bit less recoil impulse because this one is comped. That's very cool. On top of that, for the money, you get an awful lot of features with this gun. You get the single port compensator. You get the spiral cut barrel, which doesn't do much for you, but it does look very cool. You get a green fiber optic with a blacked out rear sight. You get an optics mount with optics plates in the box. You get more texture on this Canik than you do on any other Canik, which helps this gun stay flat when you're shooting it. It's very, very lightweight. And on top of that, it has an unbelievable trigger on this guy and probably the best trigger of all the Caniks, which is saying an awful lot. It's a little bit more expensive than some of the Caniks, but it comes with every feature I would ever put on one right out of the box. And I really do think that comp makes a little bit of difference because the only thing I don't like about the Caniks is they can be a little snappy and this one isn't. So on top of all of that, it's also made by the same company that makes the John Wick guns, which gives it a second kind of cool, at least for me. And then I really do have a soft spot in my heart for gold and black. I'm from Iowa. I'm a Hawkeye fan after all. So gold and black guns are kind of my thing if you've watched my channel. And this one just happens to come out in some of my favorite colors as well. I'm not saying that all of the Caniks aren't awesome. A lot of them are awesome. But I think overall, if I'm going to the range with one of them, I think I'm going to choose this one. And out of all the rounds we've had through this so far, it's extremely reliable. And I think the price on those are around $9.99, which makes them relatively affordable for the race gun that they are. In at number four is going to be an old classic, a gun that's been on the channel a lot. But my favorites are my favorites after all. And they don't change quite that much. This is the CZ P10F. Now this is the full size variant of the P10 series, which might just be the best gun for the money on the damn planet. The P10F is a striker fired polymer frame pistol, which is again very light. It has a 4.5 inch barrel kind of similar in size and length to the Glock 17, with a full size 19 round flush fit capacity, which is awesome. It has a killer grip, but it lacks a little bit in texture. So I have these Talon grips on here. It also has one of the best striker fired triggers in the industry. And one of the lowest recoil impulses, just simply due to how high you can get on the gun and how low it is over your hand. The slide works super well. And these guns have been very, very reliable in my experience. I've actually had three of these now. This is the only one I've kept because I've gotten a lot of them for review, but all of them were pretty excellent. The under swept, undercut trigger guard was one of the first things I loved about this gun because it doesn't give you that Glock knuckle if you have big hands. And it comes with all the features you're going to want, include a large trigger guard and a rail for mounting lights and accessories. And the new ones obviously come with an optic system, although this one is just iron sights. And I didn't get a new one because I happen to really enjoy the iron sights I have on here. I think these are Dawson Precision, but I don't actually remember. Just a fiber optic front with a blacked out rear. But buy another one. I'll probably go with TAG because I've been going with those lately, but these are excellent. Now, the cool part about having the non-optics ready version is you get a lot of space to run the slide, which I like. These come with two magazines in the feature set you see for around $300 to $400, which makes them incredibly good for the money. So if you're looking for a solid striker fired polymer frame pistol for home defense, concealed carry, anything like that, I would definitely recommend the P10F. It's been extremely reliable and extremely accurate and fast, especially for the money. Now, number three here is going to be a very tough choice for me because I have three of my favorite guns of all time sitting in front of me and I just can't decide. Like being a big kid at a buffet, I just don't know what to pick first. Let's go with the Glock 34. The Glock 34 has been one of my favorite guns for all of time. It's showing a little bit of its age these days, but if you're an old school Glock guy like me, you don't notice it that much because I've just got so many rounds down through these. Now, the benefits of these are going to be track record is absolutely excellent, reliability is excellent, parts and availability is excellent, magazines are cheap, everything's cheap on the gun except for the kind of going price. But I think the Glock 34 has that second kind of cool for me, again in the John Wick 2 movie, and I really like the gun for the size and weight. One of the first ultralight striker fired guns that was super accurate. I mean, it weighs only a couple more ounces more than a Glock 19 and I can hit shots all day at 100 yards with this gun. It comes with a pretty good trigger and a pretty good feature set, but I have upgraded them. This one does have tag sights on it and I do have handle grips on here. I have a bad habit of doing really ugly grip jobs, as you'll see at number two. But with handle grips, I don't have to do that. Now, the Glock 34, again, gets that Glock magazine compatibility, which I think is probably its best feature these days because I can run this as a backup to any one of my pistol caliber carbines, including my personal favorite, the JP5. Now, I think the reason why it's sitting at number three is because it just really pales in comparison and feature set to a lot of the more modern guns that have especially come out this year, like maybe the Canik or the one at number one or two, and I think it's still a great gun, but for around the $700 price tag, you don't get as many features. That being said, I have thousands of rounds for these guns. They're super accurate, super fast, super reliable, and I would certainly trust my life to them, and I still shoot them for fun, so they're definitely not a bad gun to shoot. One of the best things about the Glock is that it forces you to break your grip over a little bit more, which is hard to get used to for an old school 1911 guy like me, but I feel like I can get really aggressive with it and when I start shooting them again and again, I can get the cadence faster and faster, and recoil is really easy on these. So overall, the Glock 34 is certainly an awesome gun and one of my favorites, and at number two, this was hard to choose. I don't know. Gun to your head. If I gun to my head, only pick one, just because it comes with a feature set right now I want. I'm gonna go with number two, the Walther PDP, but for now. Now, this is my extremely tricked out Walther PDP, and this is one of the ones I shoot a lot that I've never really showed on the channel, because it did a really ugly grip job to it, and I kind of feel bad about it, and I... But this is what happens when you have way too much time, and you shoot on a timer way too much, and you're trying to get like those very split second splits, but this is the Walther PDP full size. Now, this is a full five inch gun. It's a polymer gun, which I'll get to here in a second, but this one does have the dynamic trigger in it, and it does have a ported job by Floyd Custom. Now, what I like about the PDP, especially with the dynamic trigger, is that it is a 2011 trigger in a lightweight polymer gun, which is phenomenal for me. With the PDP, you have that single nice crisp trigger pull with that unbelievable reset, and on the dynamic trigger from Walther, you can adjust it as well, which is super nice. You can get a very light crisp forced reset like I want, or you can get a very light trigger pull, or whatever combination of springs you want to use, but it's flat face. It does have the dingus, so if you drop it, it won't shoot you in the butt like the SIGs, which is super nice, and we have a full dust cover on there with a big picatinny rail, which I think looks super cool. Floyd's put my front sight toward the rear, which is really nice, because obviously it would get blown off otherwise, but I think that gives it a very cool look, and then Walther's optic system, I have found is pretty excellent as well, or at least I haven't found anything wrong with it yet, so we are still running that literally like 5,000 rounds later. Now, to explain my grip job, this is silicone carbide. You could make the grip bigger and bigger and bigger every time you put another layer on. You could put like seven layers on and make it the big fat boy grip that I have here. On a lot of my guns, I use the largest backstrap, and I do have the largest backstrap on the Walther, but I even wanted a little bit more girth, because she likes that anyway, but overall, this is not the only PDP I like. I like all of them, and my personal favorite stock I've shot, sadly, I don't have on the channel yet, but I'm working on it, and I went to GunCon and shot the Walther PDP steel frame match, which was, oh my god, I want it so bad. Now, the Walther PDP is extremely affordable as well. This gun coming in, not with these accessories, but this gun coming in at a lower price than even the Glock is a tremendous value in my personal opinion. You get that full-size grip. The Walther stippling is not bad, by the way. The texture on initial grip is not bad at all, but if you know anything about competition shooters, it's not good enough until it literally rips your skin off, so here we are. There won't be any honorable mentions for this, because I do plan on doing a part two, and you guys seem to like that more than just hearing the part two and the honorable mentions anyway, so I'm definitely going to have a follow-up, but that being said, the number one currently is going to be the M&P pistols, specifically the M&P Pro Comp. Now, this is a gun I literally got, like, two weeks ago, and it's not as proven as a lot of the other guns on the table, but it is an M&P of which I've had, I think, 20? I think I've had 20 M&Ps in my lifetime. I didn't know that. Yeah, at least half of those I purchased myself. Are you hiding them from me? Yeah, I do hide some from you. I was going to put the shield, because the shield is what I carry, but if I'm going to go out to the range and I have to pick which one I'm going to shoot for fun, it's for sure going to be this one. Now, I believe this is Smith & Wesson's first M&P that is comped from the factory, as you can see that right here. In a very similar setup that I paid a good bit for on my PDP, I got it right from the factory with the Smith & Wesson. I do prefer the single-port comp in the front with the sight behind it. This one also comes with an HD front and a blacked-out rear, and then it comes with maybe Smith & Wesson's coolest serrations yet. You get two mags with the gun, and then you get an aluminum frame as opposed to all the polymer guns on here, which does feel really nice, but my favorite part about this gun is that it comes with the 2.0 Performance Center trigger. I mean, this rocks. So now, not only do we have the awesome M&P ergonomics, reliability, and then the magazine compatibility, which you can also get their PCCs and stuff to fit with that, but you also get a trigger that now rivals, like the Canik and the Walter, which is really awesome. This is their new Performance Center trigger, which is really, really good. So overall, I think this is my favorite M&P to shoot right now. Add to the fact that it's awesome for the money. I'll leave the price right there. I forget, unless you know what it is. $999. This is $999 too, so okay. So you either get to choose the Canik version or the M&P version. Both come with very similar features. Both have really, really good shootability. I just really err on the side of Smith, because I've been a Smith guy for so long. I mean, I own an original Schofield for Pete's sake. But I like the backstraps on the Smith a little bit better, because they swell your hand out. You get five of them, and not only do they give you a full backstrap, like on the Beaver Tail, but they have the palm swells, which I really, really like. So a lot of it's personal preference. I also like that you can get M&P Partisan magazines everywhere. They're second, really, only to the Glock. And now that they have the new trigger with the new serrations and the comp, which I think actually works a little bit better than the Canik, I think the Canik might have a slight edge in the trigger as far as weight, but I think the recoil impulse on the M&P is better, so I think overall it's a little bit more enjoyable for me to shoot. But that being said, I still only have like 500 rounds for this one, so I was hesitant to put it on this video, but I thought if I'm going to be honest about it, if I'm going to go out and shoot and have fun, I'm probably going to choose this one. Get it! Get it, baby! So I wouldn't necessarily say this is at number one as much as the entire M&P line is at number one, but I figured that was too much of a cop out, so here you go. If you like this video, please like and subscribe. Please help out Oklahoma Shelters, and remember to recycle. I'll check you later.