Anyone have any reviews of a Glock model 43?

Plenty people own them. You made a good choice.

dont have one but a friend of mine does. he has nothing but good things to say about it

Got one. In love with it. Fiddina buy a kydex iwb deal.. just installed a custom arachnigrip on mine.

Light weight. Reliable. Shoots straight.

Btw, daily toted for months now. Got it back in September. Comfortable.

Iraqveteran8888 said the 43's tend to rust badly. Hopefully glock fixed that issue.

I love mine. I carry it daily in a DeSantis ankle holster or Milt Sparks Versa Max IWB. It's one of the best guns I've owned for concealed carry.

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Iraqveteran8888 said the 43's tend to rust badly. Hopefully glock fixed that issue.

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Glocks made in the US since 2010 tend to rust. Glocks made in Austria don't. The difference is the tenifer coating prodess.

Reportedly the tenifer process doesn't meet with the EPA's approval ??

Here's the Wiki version of Tenifer used on firearms: LINK

Glock Ges.m.b.H., an Austrian firearms manufacturer, utilized the Tenifer process until 2010, to protect the barrels and slides of the pistols they manufacture. The finish on a Glock pistol is the third and final hardening process. It is 0.05 mm (0.0020 in) thick and produces a 64 Rockwell C hardness rating via a 500 °C (932 °F) nitride bath. The final matte, non-glare finish meets or exceeds stainless steel specifications, is 85% more corrosion resistant than a hard chrome finish, and is 99.9% salt-water corrosion resistant. After the Tenifer process, a black Parkerized finish is applied and the slide is protected even if the finish were to wear off. In 2010 Glock switched to a gaseous ferritic nitrocarburizing process. Besides Glock several other pistol manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson and Springfield Armory, Inc., also use ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts like barrels and slides but they call it Melonite finish. Heckler & Koch use a nitrocarburizing process they refer to as Hostile Environment. Pistol manufacturer Caracal International L.L.C. uses ferritic nitrocarburizing for finishing parts such as barrels and slides with the plasma-based Plasox process.


I'll leave it to the metalurgists to decipher any of this stuff that has more than to syllables.

All I know is that the older Glocks (like the Gen 2 G19's that I carry) don't rust. The newer ones still have a tough finish, but need a higher level of care with good corrosion resistant oil.