I am probably the furthest thing from most of your audience: a fairly liberal athiest from Minnesota. I have a kid now, and I was looking for info on a good way to make sure that if someone were to try to harm him, they wouldn't be successful. I've been binge watching your stuff now! I've never been anti guns, but taking the time to hear your views and learn some more about guns has been a great value. Now I'm thinking of looking for a carry class if I can get the wife on board.
Fred, I don't mind you being an atheist, but if people mean your family harm, how are you going to send people to meet God if you don't believe in Him 🤣 I kid. Self-defense, and the right to live relatively free from threat of physical harm should not be a partisan issue.
Getting the wife on board always seems to be the kicker but I want you to think about something. As the husband and father, do you see it as your responsibility to protect your family? I would assume so based on your comment. if you do, my advice would be to not let anyone get in the way of your natural desire to protect them, even your family. Get some classes, attempt to sway your wife every chance you get and arm up using the best thing you can afford and upgrade ammo, platform, etc every chance you get. Find what works for you and never stop training. And for the kiddo and general safety get a good gun safe, there should be no unauthorized access. Good luck.
@William Schrimsher God or not, the worms still have to eat 😉 And if they try anything funny with my son, I'll send them to the god of their choosing with postage prepaid.
People get mad when they realize they wasted a lot more money on the same product from the high end brands So they try to justify their purchases and lash out at the "cheaper" and "low-end" brands
@@RedMcCarlwhich is stupid because PSA is just making the market more competitive. People buying glocks that are worth $300 max, for $600 is just absurd. PSA is changing that.
Elitism is rampant in the firearm community. There's a time to "buy once, cry once" but a gun like this makes for an excellent entry handgun. Its the best platform/gen for parts availability, extremely affordable, and cut for an RDS if one decides to go that route. With the sale PSA just had, I picked up one with suppressor sights and an RMR cut for $288. That's unheard of outside of HiPoint, Sccy, and the like. Some of them have some sick looking cuts, threaded barrels, and barrel coatings as well for the same price. I try to stay away from them as they just allow more stuff into the gun, but still nice that they offer that. Not to mention anything of their affordable and satisfactory AR uppers, their new PA10 Sabre, their Jakl piston rifle, and their super affordable ammo line they've started (AAC). PSA are on top of their game
@@RedMcCarlKinda like 1911 owners bashing the Tisas. I bought one for 385 dollars and it out performed my 1,500 colt. Granted, the colt feels nicer and looks better, reliability wise the Tisas was a tank.
Gotta love how he's literally two years late on the Dagger review, and there's about 17,000 other videos out there on every aspect of the Dagger, yet he still made one because the people wanted it. And he's so damn jolly. One of the best channels on the entire platform in my opinion. Thanks for all you do, brother.
PSA has been hitting it out of the park with both affordability and pushing the envelope on newer stuff, features, interesting offerings, etc. I hope they keep it up for the next century to become a big dog in the hunt as long as they continue doing exactly what they are doing now, especially with their pro 2A donations and support.
G Lock made their worker's go get jug or stuck with no consideration for their wishes if they wanted to maintain work. I would not buy from a co. that pulled that tyr Anny off against their worker's wishes.
@@mrfourtysevenman and my response to that is "If you don't do your research, your high dollar gun is gonna rust in police storage for 2+ years until you get it back after a good shoot". I want my carry gun cheap and boringly reliable for that exact reason, and this gun fits the hell out of that bill. Just picked up a blem frame and a clearance OD green slide with RMR cut for $240 bucks lmao. It's amazing.
Over the last few days I've been watching a number of Gun Gripes when Barry was still alive. The one video that truly touched me was the first one after Barry had passed. Can't imagine still having him on the channel....
He was a great man whose words still stay with me when I’m considering purchases and use of my firearms. He offered much more to the world than just 2A related information.
I love my PSA Dagger. Feels great. Runs perfect. Looks killer! Lifetime warranty. Excellent price! I don't have to worry about replacement parts as there are gobs to choose from. PSA also has a great perspective for a USA manufacturer to have. It is a complete win!
Perfect timing! I just bought a blemished dagger with cool cuts, rmr sight config with a threaded barrel and protector included for 299... even if I can visibily see the blemish, the value of the features alone despite cosmetics makes it worth it. My guns are tools so blemishes happen regardless.
Outstanding Review. PSA hit a home run with the PSA DAGGER Pistol 100% American Made in Columbia, South Carolina. U.S.A . I liked it so much I purchased one Fullsize and the Next one will soon be a compact. It's my everyday carry on my Job as a Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator. I often have to confront wild dangerous animals. My backup is a 9mm Carbine Rifle the Ruger PC Carbine and the Kel Tec Sub2000 9mm carbine rifle. They all take the same Glock magazines and in same caliber. I have taken several Wild Boars with the 9mm Pistol and the 9mm Carbine Rifle dropping Hogs on the spot. 🐗🐽A Rifle & Pistol that uses the Same Caliber and Same Cartridge Caliber is a plus for survival and self-defense. Back Packing and Hunting.
@@DyingBreed1776 if you get one with the high sights (like mine) they are meant to co-witness with a red dot sight. They are fine for standard shooting with just the sights. Comparable to what you would get with any other manufacturer
Same. I love mine as well. I got the version that has the rear sight in front of the RMR, which works great, and still works as co-witness, but just letting you put your eye to the Red Dot first. Broke in the trigger with about 500 pulls (which really wasn't gritty from the start at all) and it felt great. You can even further polish it if you'd like to, but it runs smooth. Also, PSA definitely did address the walking pins, and other issues in the past pretty quickly.
I actually use one as my EDC. My only gripes are the trigger and slide stop. Both were easily rectified with some Lone Wolf parts to make it silky smooth. I Even did the factory polishing that Glock does, little squirt of copper anti-seize paste on the slide. It's definitely a solid gun for the money. Especially with their perpetual sales going on.
Got my fist for $49.99 with Free Shipping last October, and it wasn't blemished. Got the Rock 5.7 frame and compact dagger frame last month as a combo for $119!
@@danielpicquet1042 well now, they're regularly $99.99 and blemished are $59.99. Ironically enough the Compact and Full Size package are $119.99. Dagger and Rock package are $169.99. Still good prices.
These platforms are well worth the money! They have had a few QC issues over the years but they seem to have worked the kinks out! PSA definitely tries to put out what the community wants! Well played PSA!
Bought 2 recently with slide cuts/sight cuts threaded barrel, supressor sights and 10 mags for a little over $800 with shipping and taxes. I've ran about 800rds between the two with ZERO malfunctions. Was also using both glock and pmags.
I just got the slide with RMR cut and threaded barrel for $199. They will run one day sales on certain slides. Which brought my build down to $260 before shipping.
I love my dagger. Nice feel and works no problem. The firearm itself I put it together for $250.00+ 2mags about $12.40 a piece so for $275.00 I was ready to go. The expenses were about $8.00 to ship the pmags and $25.00 ffl fee. I say 310 and I was good to go.
I got a dagger package this winter. Incredible value and quality. Used all ten mags with several ammo's to break it in and make sure they all worked properly!
Well Eric I finally broke down and bought one. $274.00 and free shipping, even came with the soft case. Took it out to my local range ran over 200 rounds through it without a hiccup and it was dead on accurate. I am so glad I pulled the trigger... pun intended 😊. It is so smooth and accurate this literally not only could it may be my warmer weather EDC now.
I absolutely love my full size dagger. Got a great deal around the holidays with 10 (yes 10) 17rd mags and a hard backed pistol bag. They accidenrly sent me a RMR optics plate instead of DR cut. Called customer service and they were super easy to work with and immediately sent out the right piece. My local FFL dealer said he loves working with the PSA guys. Really good company!
i picked up one last year and have run over 1000 rounds through it w/o any feeding or ejecting issues. am very happy with it and intend to use for edc instead of my g26.
I built a dagger frame out with an RMR cut slide, a timney trigger, a HS407C X2 dot, a strike industries mass driver and a Surefire x300. The dagger frames have fantastic grip texture, and geometry. I picked up a bare bones dagger for $300 for my dad for his birthday, too. He's definitely a fan and so am I.
Pro tip, if you're having a lot of accuracu issues, try changing your recoil spring weight. Im running a 13 lb in mine, but if you plan on running suppressed, you may need a much heavier spring.
Register your cheap pistols you can afford to throw away as SBR on ATF before 1 June! The more SBR there are as Common Use, the more power we have to unban SBR at SCOTUS. We need to all pitch in.
(*Edited for some typos). I’m not your typical Glock fan boy, but I do own a few G19 mags both OEM,PMAG as well as others. So getting a dagger was a no brainer. I have a hard enough time sticking to the calibers I have, and not having to buy more magazines, well that’s a plus. I Have about 400 through mine. And aside from a stiff mag release button it runs like a champ. The front of the mag well / front bottom grip has a pronounced curve that was giving my pinky a little Glock knuckle rub, but an after market mag well insert fixed that. For the money, a Glock ish pistol that has features almost identical to my EDC, I may have to get another. And their blemish sales are unbelievable.
I personally love their AR lower/ Dagger frame bundle. For ~$110 you get em both. I'd like to get their fullsize Dagger frame soon, looking forward to their micro compact when it also releases. PSA is cool for what it is. A lot of snobby people talk down on them. Those types of people make it hard for newcomers to get into gun stuff. A world of knowledge and experience and they want to talk crap about a company because it isnt their brand. Makes the AK vs AR debates look trivial in comparison. Oh yeah, and PSA has been improving their AK line up so there's that too, for any of ya'll interested. Good video IraqVet, hope you have a good one!
I've found the best carry comp to be the strike industries micro comp, the circle version. It's actually clockable so that you have a left right and up port. It doesn't vent all the way around like other micro comps do(which therefore increases the actually compensation effect, the whole point of a comp). It's about 40-50 dollars and comes with 3 high temp o-rings as well, so good value there.
I dunno why Griffin had the bright idea of porting all the way around and turning the comp into a thread protector. I've got a Suarez International comp that just has one port clocked directly up. Works way better than the Griffin comp I've got.
@@cavalieroutdoors6036 Didn't know about the Suarez comp but I'd avoid them purely on the owner's bad rep. But at least they had the right idea. People keep buying the Griffin or HB comps and they are just a concussion device. Holes all the way around. It makes actually no sense. It's not hard to make a proper micro comp. Make extended thread protector. Drill hole across one side, and single hole in the other face of the comp, to make 3 holes. Left/right/up. Boom done. But then you have people on forums that install the top port facing down and saying the comp works well... People don't even know what they are buying or how it's supposed to work.
PSA has a deal for a complete Dagger lower and AR reciever for $100 had a 10% code got em for $90. So essentially $45 for the complete lower , slap a $200 blem RMR cut threaded upper on there and you have a complete Gun for $245 with all those features
I’ve got a Dagger upper. Put it on a Glock lower. Converted it from 40cal to 9mm. Upper + Holosun red dot for only $419. Great price and products. Also, Their ammo is on sale this weekend.
psa sells, i think it was only on a daily deal but they had an ar15 lower + a dagger lower for only 99 bucks. you can see other deals like a dagger, bunch of mags, case, holster for so not that bad a price. their bundles are sweet
If you go to the PSA site and look at the dagger clearance page you can pick up a nice dagger in almost any configuration for under 3 hundred,you just can’t beat that price for a American made handgun
I bought a used P80 PFSC9 that was having trouble going into battery. The problem probably could have been fixed with a $40 OEM glock part, but I didn't want to blow a bunch of money buying parts trying to solve it through trial and error. I sold it and was on the hunt for a used Glock 19 but then I remembered the Dagger exists and just ordered one yesterday. At the $359 price point for a brand new pistol (I got one with the standard slide but with a threaded barrel) it was a no brainer.
I got mine for $302 after tax shipping and FFL fee. I was having problems with the last round holding open, come to find out, I am riding the lock/release and I just needed to move my thumb outward. 🤣😂🤣
I've been pleased with the psa firearms I have. I mostly buy what u can afford, though I do have a couple high dollar items. Best one I've had is a ww2 clone imbel 1911. The issues that came up were easy to fix.. I just upgraded with actual ww2 1911 parts. Now it shoots very well and the grouping is great at 50 yrds.
I finally just pulled the trigger on a grey Dagger Compact, SW1 slide with 10 mags for $399. I’m by no means a Glock guy but for the price I couldn’t resist. I bought a Riton PRD for it today, and can’t wait for it to arrive at my local FFL. I might end up replacing the trigger, but we’ll see…
Got the PSA Dagger Compact (10, 15 round mags) for carry and the PSA Dagger Compact with threaded barrel, supressor height sights, and red dot cut (5, 15 and 5, 27 round mags) for my bedside gun.
We have two in the family. They are nice to shoot and go bang every time. There is nothing special about them, they just work. I would definitely buy again and I'm sure I'll eventually give in to those sales to try out different color combinations and slide cuts.
I tried my hand at a couple 3d printed glock frames, and for the life of me couldn't get it to run reliably. When I saw PSA selling a complete lower for 60 bucks, I jumped on it. I don't get to shoot much, but the 50 rounds I put through it so far with that lower, I didn't have any issues. Which I know is almost nothing, but the printed lower would only get through about 3 rounds before it'd have a dead trigger.
It’s a great value! The only negative is the mag release isn’t switchable for left handed. Not a deal breaker but for a lefty releasing the mag is with your trigger finger as opposed to a righty with your thumb. Hopefully PSA will address this with later models.
I absolutely love my PSA Dagger S full size in Gray. I put a Timney Trigger in and it is 10 times better shooter now. Also came with 10 Magpul 17 round magazines.
I just picked up a FDE Dagger frame assembly and a FDE extreme carry cut complete slide with a threaded stainless barrel and RMR cut for a total price of $277.00 bucks...crazy deal
I have a PSA dagger upper, the lower... undead spirits don't exist. I don't think mine came with the high sights would have to double check, but did have the RMR cut. And a Holo Sun. Bonus.
I’m a dagger fan boy, I carry a daggerX frame. But I’ve notice if u mix and match frame with slides, u need to run a gen 4 ejector. If not u get a lot of failures to feed and extract. After u get that figured out they run flawless
I bought mine shortly after PSA released the Dagger and I felt confident in it enough to make my duty weapon. The only issue I had was mine is milled for the Docter/Vortex pattern optic so it took a while to find and optic that I was willing to buy for it. Other than that I have carried this bad boy with complete confidence that in a fight it would do its job and allow me to be able to get rounds down range. Thankfully I haven’t had to use it in a fight but I trust it if came down to it.
Just picked up a full size frame in sniper green. Bought a g17 Glock magazine for it and ordered a Holosun 407c green dot for it. Now all i have left to get is the slide and barrel. Going to change out the trigger with a Wheaton Arms flat face trigger.
Got the 2 lowers deal from psa and literally you can do anything on those in addition got slide for SCT lower with another psa slide and already put it in test to check reliability and zero issues after 50 rds. For the value and quality it’s worthy Thanks
Been watching your channel for a while. Glad your doing what your doing! I am former military. Currently working with a gen 5 Glock. Been curious about these
You need one of those Austrian suppressor the one that locks on to the frame it might only be available for the factory Glock frames tho and it doesn’t affect barrel and thread on to it that fix’s the accuracy and reliability about Glocks 💯
I do appreciate PSA, having recently bought the Rock with a Holosun 407, suppressor-height sights, and threaded barrel included for less than Ruger's or Smith & Wesson's 5.7x28 pistols cost--and about half what an FN FiveseveN runs. Now if only they'd do a CZ 75B clone that's optics ready....
Few hundred rounds on my dagger I just got last week... very nice gun for the money! I have 2 gripes off the top: 1 being that there is no way to tell you have a live round unless you pressure check the round.. unlike the glock that had the little tab on the slide. And my 2nd gripe is the mags. Although they are interchangeable, I found the pmags were not stopping the slide on empty.. other than that all good so far 🙏🏼
I bought mine a year back, got about 400 rounds on it with 0 issues. My only gripes are the trigger is crappy just like a glock trigger and mine is an early model so my trigger pin walks. They fixed the trigger pin issue so im gonna contact them about getting their new pin.
I have 3 Daggers … all great pistols I don’t run cans … but I do like the longer barrel.. without the weight of the longer slide.. Manufacturer to consumer…
I have 300 rounds through my sniper green Dagger haven't had any issues with it in accuracy or reliability.I thought how good could it be at that price,it even wowed me.
I just ordered my 3rd Dagger as another member of the Drop It Arsenal super excited for all of the great daggers to be a part of the drop it Arsenal. Got the one that is sniper green with the gold threaded barrel. Thanks for another great video! ~Drop It Like It's Scott
There have been a few reported issues with front sights coming loose and the nut retaining the spring on the guide rod coming loose as well as the trigger pins backing out that you mentioned. Sounds like they have fixed that issue. I have two that have been perfect so far. The one that I have shot the most (not much for either one) is extremely easy to be accurate with. Very easy to shoot 5" 16 shot groups at 40 yards offhand. It seems to be a very easy pistol for me to be accurate with so far.
