So several weeks back I decided to order up a bunch of Palmetto State Armory (PSA) Glock knockoffs. The ‘Dagger’ pistol is basically a Glock with just enough tweaks to, I would imagine, keep Gaston’s lawyers at bay, but be Glock enough to be useful to folks like me.
Finally got around to taking a couple of them to the range today along with a couple P95DC’s I needed to test fire.
The Dagger shot very well. No failures of any kind, seemed as accurate as any other Glock, and even fit into the rather snazzy new Safariland 6390RDS ALS Glock holster I picked up.
The Dagger shot as well as the Glock, and fit my hand a little better. I don’t really have any complaint about it. I’d have to put a lot more ammo through one before I would stand on stage and declare it the equal of the Glock or that it was a perfect analog of a Glock. But….a lot of parts do interchange:
What’s the role of it in my world? Well, IF it has the reliability and durability of the Glock, then it would make a no-brainer choice as a secondary or tertiary backup gun to someone who is invested in Glock logistics. If it takes Glock mags, Glock parts, Glock holsters, Glock sights, and Glock accessories, but is half the price of the Glock, then why wouldn’t you pick up a couple?
PSA has these things on sale…sometimes as a package deal. Let me see if I can find a recent one….
Thats a pretty-much-as-good-as-a-Glock pistol and five standard Magpul mags and five happysticks for $370. For perspective, thats approx. $125, dealer price, of mags making the gun itself approx $245. That is a bargain no matter how you look at it.
I like to think I’ve got as many guns as I could possibly need for whats left of my checkered and tragic life, but at prices like these I’d feel no hesitation to pick up three or five as cabin guns, truck guns, tacklebox guns and, most importantly, gifts to people who I think need a good pistol and don’t already have one.
YMMV, of course, and I’d love to see Tam do one of her 2,000 round ammo tests with one of these (but who can afford that much ammo these days?). I’ll be shooting these things more in the coming weeks, but so far I like what I see.
That is one helluva buy. The cash register should be merrily ringing at PSA.
Great buy! I have several Glocks in various calibers and besides utter reliability they have one thing in common. The triggers suck! A friend of mind bought some P85’s the year they came out and they were typical Rugers, built like tanks and shot everything fed through them without a bobble. I hope you are happy with the knock-offs, they look good and with interchangeable parts offer really good options. Well done. TTFN
The Glock trigger can be made very acceptable with a few minutes of polishing with a Dremel tool. You can turn a $20 trigger into a $150 trigger in about 20 minutes.
Given the history of some Bubbas with Dremel tools, you can also turn a $500 Glock into a $50 paperweight in about two minutes.
Glock triggers are about $20 and just about impossible to damage with a polishing wheel and compound. For the “Bubbas”, there are dozens of videos on YT that show just how easy it is to improve the factory Glock trigger.
If they prove to be reliable, that’s a screaming deal. I couldn’t built a clone for any price near that.
“I like to think I’ve got as many guns as I could possibly need for whats left of my checkered and tragic life” – that same thought has popped up in my head many times, too – then, I see an “interesting” gun of some sort and it comes to live with me and joins it’s friends – there’s always “one more” out there somewhere . . . .
I just took the plunge on a Dagger. PSA had the “blem” lowers for $59.95 a few weeks ago, Got an upper for $129.99, Had an extra barrel for a G19. So I’m into a new Dagger for about $200. Put it together and took it to the range. Ran a Box of cheap Tula steel case 115gr thru it. Ran just fine!! Shot at a B27 silhouette at 25yds and it put all the shots in center mass. No issues at all. Think I may sell the G19 and buy 3 more Daggers!!