In recent years, I've scaled back what I bring to the range. I used to bring everything at once, but now I just focus on one combination at a time. There is plenty of time to practice everything else. My normal range choice seems to change each time I go, though.
I see the debate going back and forth with a ton of very good options. My advice would be to get two different guns. I know that's not where you plan to start, but I'm sure that's where you'll end up. I have always found trying to get one gun to run double duty, leaves you with one gun that...
Fair estimate. I was in the $800 range, too. Figure the 27 is common handgun for LEO, meaning they can walk in and buy one new with 3 mags for $398 plus tax at about every BL dealer. It's not available to everyone, but it definitely hammers the used market. If not, they would be buying them...
I have some of this, but I never really shot enough of it in a single firearm to prove it out. Not because I think it's not a great round. I just have gone with HST in everything, and I have put a ton of rounds of it through a lot of different guns. Everything I've read about the PDX1 is good...
I wish this one would have been out a year ago. I'm not a fan of the single stack carry guns, but it definitely will make the G42 more available. I would like to have a 42 and 43 just to have them.
If the goal is a CCW, the G26 conceals better than my XDS due to the shorter grip height. The G26 is the gun I always come back to no matter how many times I've had an itch to buy something new.