TFOGGER
03-01-2010, 10:51
I purchased this a while back as a CCW piece, but just finally got a chance to wring it out at the range yesterday.
Initial impressions: Extremely light weight. Pretty thin, and compact overall, particularly for a 9mm with 10+1 capacity. Fits my wide, short fingered paws fairly well. I added the fingergrip floorplate to the magazine prior to shooting as a comfort measure. The sights are conventional square notch rear, with a fairly low profile and rounded edges, combined with a decent front. OEM sights are set up with white dots front and rear, which offer pretty average visibility. I'll probably upgrade these as time and funds allow (tritium night sights).
Shooting: Recoil is sharp, but reasonably controllable. I am VERY glad I installed the optional floorplate, however. Trigger action is DAO, and requires a very long, stiff pull. Possibly the worst trigger pull of anything I have shot this century, but not unexpected on a DAO gun with no mechanical safety. I had one failure to extract/eject in the first magazine, put it down to new gun hiccup. After that, I put about another 110 rounds of various ammo down range, with no stoppages. Accuracy was good, with 90% headshots at 50 ft on a reduced B-29 silhouette. I did manage to pinch the base of my right ring finger pretty good when swapping magazines(New Gun Gods extracting their required Blood Sacrifice), so a little caution is advised during magazine changes. The slide release is very low profile, and pretty tough to get a thumb on. It's fairly stiff, but got better as the day wore on.
I installed the optional belt clip on this, and now understand why they recommend thread locker, as it started to loosen after about 50 rounds. After re-tightening, I had no further issues, but I'll take it apart when I clean it and loctite it anyway.
Overall, I give it a B+ as a carry gun. This is not one I'll shoot much for pleasure, but as an inexpensive, easily concealable carry weapon, it is quite satisfactory.
Initial impressions: Extremely light weight. Pretty thin, and compact overall, particularly for a 9mm with 10+1 capacity. Fits my wide, short fingered paws fairly well. I added the fingergrip floorplate to the magazine prior to shooting as a comfort measure. The sights are conventional square notch rear, with a fairly low profile and rounded edges, combined with a decent front. OEM sights are set up with white dots front and rear, which offer pretty average visibility. I'll probably upgrade these as time and funds allow (tritium night sights).
Shooting: Recoil is sharp, but reasonably controllable. I am VERY glad I installed the optional floorplate, however. Trigger action is DAO, and requires a very long, stiff pull. Possibly the worst trigger pull of anything I have shot this century, but not unexpected on a DAO gun with no mechanical safety. I had one failure to extract/eject in the first magazine, put it down to new gun hiccup. After that, I put about another 110 rounds of various ammo down range, with no stoppages. Accuracy was good, with 90% headshots at 50 ft on a reduced B-29 silhouette. I did manage to pinch the base of my right ring finger pretty good when swapping magazines(New Gun Gods extracting their required Blood Sacrifice), so a little caution is advised during magazine changes. The slide release is very low profile, and pretty tough to get a thumb on. It's fairly stiff, but got better as the day wore on.
I installed the optional belt clip on this, and now understand why they recommend thread locker, as it started to loosen after about 50 rounds. After re-tightening, I had no further issues, but I'll take it apart when I clean it and loctite it anyway.
Overall, I give it a B+ as a carry gun. This is not one I'll shoot much for pleasure, but as an inexpensive, easily concealable carry weapon, it is quite satisfactory.