[Tim Hancock]

My wife's boss has mentioned several times that I should join him on Monday nights for a shooting event at a local sportsmans club. I took him up on it last night and it was a BLAST! We shot a total of 56 rounds kind of following an IDPA type format in three stages. Basically it involved being timed while using cover to shoot at various relatively close cardboard silhouettes and steel flip down targets.

I used my FEG PA-63 9x18 Makorov which only holds 7 in the magazines which put me at a serious disadvantage, but I suprisingly did pretty well for my first time only failing to hit a couple targets overall. I think I am hooked and will "need" to purchase a gun that will be legal to shoot at other more organized events.

Any suggestions on the "best" gun to purchase strictly for competition use? I have plenty of handguns for personal protection including semi autos and revolvers but my semi-autos are all .22, .380 and 9x18 Mak which are not legal in most sanctioned events. I would like to buy a 9mm as it is legal and is the cheapest ammo wise. This gun will solely be purchased for competition and will be purchased solely based on what is the best for this style of competition.

Thus far it sounds like a Glock 34 would be my best bet in 9mm based on what I have read on-line. Unfortunately it looks like they are hard to come by at the moment. I would appreciate any insight on these or other competitive guns. If I had a IDPA legal semi-auto, I would use it to start out with, but since I need to buy one, I may as well buy a proven winner.