How I Test a New EDC Handgun 

Man I didn’t realize it was Mexico color grading in Tennessee already. This year is flying by.

Really going out of your comfort zone switching from a Glock to a Glock! They are a good option for sure!

The amount of love people have towards Burn Notice is truly a magnificent thing to see.

When my wife and I got our first house a few years back, I was still carrying a P229. I was working on demoing stuff one night and took a photo of my 229 sitting next to a cup of yogurt with the mess in the background and set it to my mom. She immediately got the reference and loved it.

I actually appreciate the fact Lucas showed and was honest about him forgetting to chamber a round for the stage, he could have just as easily had that cut out of the video, but they kept it and I like that they showed it. Keeps everything feeling human aka we all make mistakes

I’ve carried numerous firearms and hilariously the only one that I’ve ever actually used for defense was a charter arms undercover I had thrown in my pocket when I went to walk my dog one night last year. The best gun is the one you have with you

The influence of Ben and Joel has been quite apparent 😊

So excited for the new video! I needed some more of your inspire part of your mission. Your guys have inspired me to train so much! It’s no longer a hobby - it’s a duty. Keep up the good work.

Finaly... a video that last more than 40 sec. Well done Mr. Lucas 😊🤙

A very informational and much needed video. The way you humbly express just how skilled you are continuously inspires me Lucas. I hope people are paying attentions to vids like these. A great way to test these guns is getting them on the field and seeing how well that particular tool works. It's extremely important to do what you're doing in terms of checking the functionality and durability of the weapon. Do the tolerances change when the gun heats up or does it have issues with different types of ammunition? etc. Then again it's hard to put a complete guarantee on anything. Training is definitely the answer and I think people should carry the same gun and ammunition they train with. I prefer something that I'm very comfortable with that I know is going to perform very predictably and that only comes from actually shooting your gun and training with it regularly.

A very welcome site to see again. Enjoy your reviews and your professionalism. Tremendous experience and a gifted manner to deliver the review. 💪🏼👑

Your thoroughness and attention to details in your craft is remarkable.

I miss the days of the weekly hour long armory streams, but I knew those days couldn’t last! And I know Trex is doing what needs to be done behind closed doors! I’ll always be here to watch!

The burn notice cameo was nice man….thanks….my heart was warmed😊

One thing to never forget when going and testing your new carry gun- run the loads you inted to carry with!!! At least an extra box of 20-50 rounds to verify that the OAL and profile of your bullet choice will properly clear the feed ramp, especially on more compact handguns with sharper ramps. Those of us who ever carried a tiny colt mustang style conceal gun (Kimber Micro9, Sig P938, Springfield 911, etc) or even 1911's know that they are notorious for "denying entry" of hollow point ammunition!

Just grabbed an Orion, love you guys!! Keep arming the people with knowledge and equipment!!!!!!

Thank God a longer vid, love y'alls shorts but I miss the longer vids

Been running a Glock 17 for my whole Concealed carry life. And I been thinking for who know how long, “which pistol I can get next for a battle belt” then by the Grace of God I thought “why not just carry the same pistol” BIG BRAIN!!!

The only aftermarket part on my gen 5 glock 19 is an enhanced trigger from Wilson Combat. I’ve put several hundred rounds through my pistol after installing it, and it’s been great to fire with no malfunctions.

Very impressive shooting with da/sa!

Just by watching your videos you make me have a broader mindset about my firearms, my ammo,and my training. Everything lol. As a fellow COD player I say you have earned your prestige Sir👌

Thanks for the information. I carry OG G19 gen 3.

What I really like is when I can’t see any details of the gun in the beginning because when your editor asked you what LUT pack to use you said “all of them”. Great video btw love the channel!

Dude, that looks like so much fun! Great speed

Always enjoy your vids... I learn a lot at 67 yrs old.. keep up the great work....

A big shout-out and thank you from South Africa for all the practical, relevant and transparent info in your videos. We have an average wait of 18-24 months for a firearm licence (any sort) and I'm not even halfway there yet, so your advocating of practice, dry-firing (playing scales on a piano as you say 😄) is all we have till we're licensed, so its bb's and airsoft drills till then. That's why the video with Liku applying his airsoft skills to firearms was so awesome to watch...over and over again. Great stuff guys 👌👌

Yeah, Lucas is spot on regarding aftermarket parts. Any time I build a new gun, or I make changes to a gun, I take it out and run the piss out of it to make sure it works properly because you CAN and WILL run into issues mixing and matching after market parts in any gun, but there's just a TON of aftermarket parts for Glock pattern handguns and you'd be surprised at how easily some things can not mesh well together. I have seen some horrible fitments between slides and barrels from different after market manufacturers and don't get me started on triggers.

Glad to hear the Zev slide worked out for you, I however did not have the same luck with the one I ordered from you guys. The firing pin channel was way out of spec, the channel liner could just fall right out of it with ease. Your people told me I was SOL and I should take it up with Zev. Zev told me to sent it in and supposedly they’ll send me another one but I’m definitely not trusting that thing on a gun I’m going to depend on. Should’ve just got my oem slide milled

It's good to hear it explained a bit more in detail with a few talking points I can bring up next time people try telling me they will "rise to the occasion" and go for known unreliable firearms. I use my carry gun in most of the matches I have ran and all of the malfunctions I have had is user induced from my grip placement getting sloppy and me just needing to address it and train more.

I watched alot of your videos my friend ..found your channel a few years back mainly cause I’m cross eye dominate like you ..I’ve learned alot watching your training vids ..always good content ..✌🏻

Just want to say thanks for always making worthwhile content.

Very informative and accurate. I recently purchased an xdme for competition purposes. And until I took it to the range it stayed right in its box. Pistols should be fired before intending to trust your life on it. I took the new pistol to the range, shot 310 rounds at least, and the firearm ran amazing. I still have to put about 300rds more through it but I will make sure the gun cycles and runs perfectly before I use it for what I purchased it for. P.s I shot about 700+rds through my hellcat pro before making it my edc

Always great information from your videos...Thank you Brother

I just switched my carry from 19 to gen 3 aftermarket Glock frame GST-9. It has built in all the common enhancements Glock enthusiasts make; straight back, high cut trigger guard, no finger grooves, perfect stippling, and built in mag well. So here’s the thing, the grip is more round than blocky so no pressure points around the edges and no finger grooves so you get a consistent 360 grip with your whole hand. It really makes a difference with double hand grip, no high points and air tight. Also the only frame I know that you can have a 19 slide with a 17 grip, 19 grip is a slight compromise for my hand, I don’t like the feeling of it hanging over the edge.

Great video, thanks for putting this one out.

Got excited for a minute. Thought he was gonna test a new gun. Not a Glock😂

Wow I actually got really excited when he pulled out the 228.

Love the classic Sig making an appearance.

Babe wake up TRex arms uploaded again

I recently purchased a new Gen 4 19C for my carry gun. I have about 800 rounds through it with 5 different kinds of ammo. I shot in 3 IDPA matches also. I have a number of modifications such as trigger, striker, and recoil system as well as frame modifications and I have yet to have any malfunctions. I had it milled for an SRO and it is my favorite red dot also. To me, this is the perfect size combat carry pistol. I have a box of Silvertips through it and I have 4 more boxes to go through and if all is good I am ok to protect my life with this weapon without any doubts.

Love the Burn Notice flashbacks! 😆

Bought a new 43x with the Holosun and TLR7 Sub. Tomorrow is my first 2 hour private lesson and I'm super excited!

Absolutely BASED Michael Weston. Also we need P228 holsters please. I want to live out my fantasies as I live in South Florida.

Loved the Burn Notice reference!

I also have a gun from a tv show as my "bedside" gun.😂 (Jericho 941 from Cowboy Bebop)

The bit about malfunctions is absolutely real. Many times, people do not stop to think whether a malfunction was the fault of their own gun of the ammo they use. I shoot allot of shotgun sports. Specifically Bunker Trap. Due to the general build quality of components like the firing pins or the triggers in most over-under sporting shotguns, you can almost always attribute failure to fires to the ammo. You get a real good sense of what manufacturers are good and what manufacturers are questionable very quickly (if you shoot allot from different companies). My honest advice is to buy from Federal, Winchester, or Fiocchi. Out of the probably 200k rounds I've shot between those three, I have had genuinely bad primers in the single digits.

Sig Fan Boy callout around the 15:00 mark haha. Anecdotal, but every P320 I've witnessed first hand in range trips or classes has had problems. And none of them except one were base models, they were nearly $1000 models. None of them were catastrophic, but of the ones I spoke to, most of them were new to the shooters and they were just becoming aware that their "Military Tested and Approved" pistols were quite ammo sensitive. Just my experience. Loved seeing the 228, old school DA/SA sigs are badass!

Wow. Super excited for another almost identical Glock.

Great review, thank you!

Inspiring, enlightening, and entertaining.

Hey Lucas great video. You mentioning or eluded to the “Tap Rack Ready” drills. Is that something you and your team would be interested in making a video or short series on? Essentially completing a timed course of fire with dummy rounds mixed in your load outs focusing on moment and cover while clearing malfunctions and delivering follow up shots. --3 full mags --7-8 dummy rounds mixed randomly between the 3 --Timed course of fire Anyways you asked for suggestions and I’ve never seen any RU-vid videos outing this so I thought I’d suggest it. Thanks for the great content.

Awesome content as always

"Check out my pistol It's a Glock but 95% of it isn't and it cost me 5 times the starting price." Love it.

Even being dedicated to good time on shot timers is helpful in addressing malfunctions. I put an extended slide stop on my gen 3 g19 and kept getting the slide lock back after a round or two from my support hand interfacing with it. When shooting for par times, it became obvious what was causing this new issue and what I needed to do about it.

These are the vids I appreciate most.

A Michael Westin cameo has me hooked asap😂😂

I know too many people who don’t stick to one handgun.. great video!

Amazing Video Lucas!

My favorite Glocks of all time are the Gen 3 RTF frame G17 and G19. I never should've gotten rid of those. My best friend still has them and won't sell them back lol. I've shot hundreds of thousands of rounds through Glocks over 30+ years. My retiree gun is a stock G17 Gen 4 with over 130K through it. Can't go wrong with them, and all of mine are bone stock Glocks. I might have the slide cut for and optic and serrations and the grips stippled but otherwise everything is stock on the gun unless I have to change the sights out (always when they're plastic sights). Only gun I trust right out of the box. Still love my other guns for sure but I've trusted my life to Glocks since the early 90's and after seeing literally millions of rounds shot through them, they'll always be my favorite. Ain't the prettiest, ain't the most ergonomic, definitely not the best triggers but they are accurate, reliable and have great longevity.

You had me for second!😱 Dude is definitely loyal 🙌👏

Man, Burn Notice was an awesome show

Burn notice reference? Sold

Been waiting for a new video to drop! I get home from work and see a new upload from T.REX ARMS just made my day, Lets Gooo!!!!

Good info, thanks for sharing!

W German P228 was my first CCW. Full Bruce Grey trigger. Cerakoted. Steve Bedair SS guide rod.

Really glad finally more people are putting out more content about training from different pistols. It doesn’t matter what gun as long it runs good and you know it’s reliable & tested & your proficient with it

Ive watched the entire Burn Notice series like 3 times all the way through. Now that you mentioned it, I'm itching to watch it again now hahaha. Am I the only one?

I have been running a Glock Gen 4 with a TLR7A, for several years and love it with my sidecar

Something special in simple glock builds. Those are the best

Switched recently to a staccato cs and have been doing drills for awhile still getting used to the safety and the trigger but I fully enjoy shooting it more and more everytime

I love Michael Weston and the P288 :)

I agree it worked some where that used flock 19 they had range guns that shot wonky and they still fired with no malfunctions. Had a friend that fired one that shot slightly to the right as the barrel was shot to death still worked just not perfect. They still re0lace springs every so often but the guns still worked

P228s are freaking fantastic.

So I think Lukas is right on rds giving you feed back on calling your shots. As I did you’ll find fresh in your mind calling shots when your working on developing connections to the target with vision. Working on your vision is where it’s at.

“Same, same…. But different” 😆

I have two pistols for carry. My butter gun is a full size 9mm with green dot and comp. My summer gun is a hellcat pro for the round count and concealment.

Very good video Lucas I also carry a glock 19 gen 3 very nice keep up the good videos..

I absolutely love your products and videos its helped me and i am grateful for many like you i have learned and improved my tools ans skill set with. Happy independence Day brothers god bless you!

Lol love this, it’s basically the CS Ice World map.

Loved the Burn Notice reference

Thanks for the info!

Michael weston omg burn notice hahahaha I loved that show . What a show

BURN NOTICE. Thanks Lucas. Sam Axe dual wielding was one of the top gun moments in TV of all time.

Love to see Lucas run the Dagger Micro when it comes out. Not only that, but run the wheels off of it and see where it's shortcomings are.

Enjoyed the video. Just subscribed.

I literally watched the entire Burn Notice series during the pandemic. :) Love that show.

Great stuff!!

Love burn notice, such an awesome show

Thank you for sharing.

Due to the nature of the "active killer" / "hyperviolent shooter" or old school terrorism threat, accuracy is very important to me. While defending yourself at bad breath distance, which is a very common and realistic threat, fast A-zone hits are the key, and only hits count in any fight, the threat from one of the highly publicized shooters is different. A "T-slot" shot may need to be made from a greater distance, especially if you are of the profession of responding to gunfire you were not originally directly involved in. I will absolutely not carry a pistol that I am not capable of hitting with boring repeatability, rapid shots on a head-sized targets at 50 meters. Yes, with an RDS. I have a Prodigy that I can make hits out to 110 yards (my Wife and children bore witness) but I do not carry it due to reliability issues. I too typically have a G19 when out of the house. Although in certain circumstances based alot on recurring disability from lifetime injury, I will carry smaller pistols too, but I am very aware that my abilities with them decrease with their size. Just my point zero two dollar's worth.

That is awesome good job I like that training

Burn notice was awesome!

Lol people get weird on this subject!! Personally, I shoot 300-500 rounds through a "new gun", plus 50-100 rounds of carry ammo too. Normally after about 200-300 rounds I'll go through the pistol and very lightly polish any spots that are wearing, speeds up the "break-in" and normally causes it to run smoother and more reliably. After all that, if there's no gun related hiccups, I'll start carrying it. I'm the same tho, I carry what I shoot, I recently started carrying a sub-compact that I trust, and I absolutely hate shooting the damn thing Haha runs great and carry's better!! I just can't shoot it like I'd like too. I tried!! Lol Going back to my version of your Glock but better, a Custom 2.0 Lol I'd carry your setup tho, it's pretty much the same setup Haha Thanks man!!

I have to tighten or loctite the screws on my tlr7 every 3 months or so. Just so you guys carrying them know. It pays to check torque on stuff occasionally.

Swapping carry guns constantly is crazy to me yes find what you can conceal, shoot well and is reliable then train with it!

Awesome 3gen Glock great choice sir

I swear you look so happy shooting the 228 there’s a happy face you make every time you shoot it

The P228 is nice, but it's thicker (larger in every dimesrion) and heavier than the 19 which can be just as accurate with training. I have found it easier to attain great accuracy with the P228, but that juice isn't worth the squeeze. The Seals went to the 19, so if you're wanting a Sig instead; go to the P226 since it's just under .5" longer and taller. Thanks for your hard work guys. To the first aid point, it'd be nice if you inserted medical emergency drills into your Training scenarios since you have an entire facility: pop quiz; you took an injury to the leg - what would you do. There are courses out there, so preface with that, but giving examples goes along way towards building that mental readiness since 1st aid and fires are more likely (range trips are just fun and no one really wants conflict) however, the old adage adage applies: "if you want peace, prepare for war".

Thank you for this!

Awesome video!