Honestly, I had a model 17 Glock many years ago, and just didn't care for it at all. Wound up trading it off at a gun shot for a Colt Delta Elite in 10mm (yeah, who got the better end of THAT deal! :laugh: ). Anyway, when I was looking for a new carry gun I was specifically looking for something in .357Sig and as small of a package as possible. The ONLY gun that even came close to fitting the bill was the Glock model 33. So I reluctantly bought it, thinking I was going to hate the thing. But honestly, I took it down to where I have a little shooting area on my property and sandbagged some shots at a target. I was pretty surprised at how accurate that little gun was. Trigger pull was much better than I remember from that model 17, and all in all, I was pretty impressed with the gun. Now I did modify is slightly by putting a pinky extension on the magazines. I have small hands, and even with my hands, my pinky finger had nothing to hold onto as small as the grip is. But with that extension, it's just about perfect now.
One thing that Glocks are well known for is reliability. Well, as long as you don't use bare lead nosed bullets, anyway. So with the small package, light weight, excellent round (the .357Sig is the autoloading equivalent, ballistically, of the .357 Magnum cartridge), accurate shooting, and reliability, this was pretty much exactly what I wanted. If I somehow lost this gun, I would buy another tomorrow.
