I narrowed it down to a full frame Glock or Springfield in a 9 or 4o caliber. Each company as it turns out also has two different models of each, 3rd and 4th generation for the Glocks, and XD and XDm for Springfield. Didn't want this to be too easy. The 4th gen Glocks are still few and far between and unavailable to shoot at the range. Supposedly they have more ergo features than it's 3rd gen predecessor, but that wouldn't take much. The XDm is 15o$ more than it's XD counterpart, but why not buy the latest available model from a given manufacturer. The price of the Glocks was right in the middle of the Springfield variants, making it a wash.
XDm comes in a great professional hard plastic case with injection foam molding, all manuals and spent cartage behind the upper foam, (2) magazines, a dual holster for the magazines, a speed loader that slides onto the magazine holster, a gun holster, (3) backstraps including the one on the grip, a gun lock, and mine came with another red trigger lock from Bass Pro. Thanks guys, it fits well in the empty mag slot that's currently loaded in the gun.
XDm features include adjustable backstraps which I have yet to try out, better grips on the grip and slide, aggressive ergo cutouts, active safeties while-not-shooting on the trigger and grip, physical indicators for both cocked and chambered conditions, ambidextrous magazine release if I ever decide to be adventurous, a 4.5" barrel on their full frame, and fixed sights, all with 19+1 capacity.
(25o) 115 grain 9 mm Remington UMC rounds from Walmart for 6o$. They won't take down a zombie as fast as a hollow point, but they're cheap and from what I hear great for target practice. 9 mm rounds would also be much more readily available in event of said apocalypse, the o.4o in use in far less guns worldwide.
Slick engraving on both Springfield Armory magazines.
From empty clip to full, the speed loader works.
Trust nothing less when zombies are concerned.
XDm feels very comfortable and is easy to point and shoot, it's thinner than the XD and less brick-like than the Glock.
Sure it doesn't have as much stopping force as a o.4o, but there will be 3 more right behind it that will reiterate exactly what the first one said in the same spot. The o.4o had significantly more recoil, increasing re-composure time between shots, and rounds were 1.5 times more expensive while the magazines had 3/4's the capacity. I would rather work on my aim while saving money throwing as many shots as I can down range as fast as possible. The better 9 mm rounds overlap with o.4o round penetration depths, and 1 mm difference in hole diameter isn't going to perpetuate bleeding more than placing a round accurately. That, and it's a well known fact zombies don't bleed.
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