I can't speak to the Galco Stinger, but I did contact Safariland regarding the R51.  If others could also contact them, we might get enough demand for them to make holsters for the model.  I particularly hope they make the 5198, because I love the one I have for my Ruger LC9s.

Good morning!  I bought my R51 gen2 just a couple of days before The Firearm Blog's scathing review was released on YouTube.  It really had me worried that I had made a bad decision.  I've since taken my R51 to the range twice, and have put a total of about 185 rounds through it.

On the first range trip, I put around 85 rounds through it.  It shoots as expected, and I was fairly pleased.  The webbing of my hand does feel a little sting, and turns a bit red, after more than a few rounds, and I think that it's due to a combination of the lower bore axis than I'm used to, and possibly the sorta sharp edges around the top of the grip safety.  Either way, not something I'm concerned with.

I also had one occasion where I went to pull the trigger and nothing happened.  At the time, I thought it might not have gone completely into battery.  I dropped the magazine and re-inserted it and I was able to fire.  I experienced no other issues.

On my second range trip, I put 100 rounds through it.  There were two occasions where I went to squeeze the trigger and it didn't fire.  Turns out that while I was able to feel the slight trigger reset most of the time, I missed it these two times.  I suspect that this is what happened on my first range visit as well.

Here's the result from the second half of that range visit.  50 rounds at 25 feet, slow fire:


Conclusion:  ~185 rounds, no malfunctions, fits great in the hand,and shoots well