While micro-compacts may be all the rage right now, full-size pistols are still where it’s at when you want to squeeze out every drop of performance possible from a handgun. It’s the form factor of choice for tactical work and competition, and for good reason. It has several advantages including capacity, longer sight radius, and both size and weight for recoil reduction and better control.
The smoke hadn’t cleared for very long after our compacts evaluation (see next feature) on the first day before the guys and I settled in to evaluate the batch of full-size pistols we had on hand. Unlike the first roundup evaluation, there were no major, ground-breaking designs to be had like we found with the new micro-compacts earlier. What we had before us was a…
