So one of my gun clubs is about 10 minutes from my office and we can start shooting at legal sunrise - so I was there at legal sunrise testing out the Laugo Arms CELO
First impressions : Holy crap. I may need to figure out how to buy one.
First impression - I validated zero of the 1 MOA SRO (yuck) at 10 yards - which it was apparently zeroed for. I walked up - because it was overcast and the sun was barely up wondering where the holes were - they were stacking - literal clover leafs. I got excited.
I backed up and shot at about 17 yards - yup - dude had a 10 yard zero - I dialed in adjustment - similar great results. Backed up to 25 to validate and zero - a little bit of adjustment and rounds like 17-21 in the gun was a 4 shot group sub 2” on head box.
I fire up the Chrono to see how my S&B 115 goes through it. 5 shots - extreme spread is 7 FPS 1174 - 1181 FPS - with an SD of 2.5 - so 135 PF.
I then just shot around with it trying to understand how the gun would move. Initial observation is because it’s roughly a 44.5 ounce gun unloaded that handles like a sub 5” gun. The muzzle behavior of the gun is very much like an open gun. The dot doesn’t climb a lot - the pace I could engage an A zone at 25 yards was near identical if not the same as my open gun.
The trigger is sick - I don’t resent it for being a hinged trigger - it’s super clean and predictable - but unlike a 1.5# 2011 trigger job it assists on reset - with practice I can probably split this harder than a 2011 trigger.
The one weirdness with the gun was that it has a 2011 grip angle when you shoot - but the internal mag chute doesn’t align with it - it has the Glock angle on how you have to insert the mags. The tip is to tuck your strong hand elbow in more like you would with a Glock. There is a bit of mag binding issue if the mag is rotated - but generally I’m willing to learn around that.
I’m rapidly falling in like with the gun.
So there's it happening - it was a good stage up until that point . You can actually see the issue starting as the gun hangs out of batter entering the position which forced me to rack a round out to get it back into battery - which I handled well. This sequence was paper, mini popper, mini popper activator, distant open target, bobber (didn't engage), partial (didn't engage) - so I ate 4 mikes and 2 procedurals right there. And it still was a 3.44 hit factor.
The good news so now the guns working I look forward to two days of mayhem!
Below - you can see a shock buff - it's a washer, basically that threads onto the guide rod. The theory of what a shock buff does is it alleviates some of the impact when the slide opens all the way - they're usually made out of Delrin or rubber or whatever but this one is aluminum and was supposed to be maintenance free. It kind of compresses the spring a bit more since you don't trim the spring so it makes lighter springs work more like a higher poundage ...
I got this pretty epic slow motion in the range of the Deagle going off. that gun is silly fun to shoot. The fireball is massive - I started to chrono the ammo I have for it - it's not as impressive as the fireball would suggest. It's about 1200 FPS with a 300 grain projectile. For comparison - the 6" 10mm with a 180 grain Blazer Brass was doing 180 grains at 1200 FPS.
The 10mm 1911 is pretty tame to shoot - not wildly different form a 45.
I was going to do a video on 10mm ammo and then shoot water jugs and slow motion of them popping - but then the sky opened up on me.
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I got back from travel first bit of the week and took out the P211 - I took them to my indoor gun club bright and early this AM and only had enough time to to put about 150 or so rounds through the P211. Here's what I discovered about the gun so far.
The grip is really good. There is a texturized aluminum plate up under the safety that bites into your support hand at the turning moment. It's probably the best - in this area - of any 2011 grip I've tried that's not an MJD grip. Accuracy is very good - that picture is a group shot with some Sig Elite V Crown 124s (they sent them with the gun) - the fliers were me not having good aim. It's capable of all X ring.
The comp works very well. I really want to compare it to an XC. I shot Buffalo Creek 115s and the Sig 124 VCrowns in doubles - my group was smaller with the doubles on the Crowns than the 115 range loads. There was more hit in the hand but the gun feels more stable with spicier ammo - if you can hold on to it - which you can - because see above.
It does not fit 2011 ...
Curious what you guys think - if this is starting to bark up the tree of "watchable"
So this is a NDA gun launch. I've had it for a while now - probably better part of two months - so I have shot it and carried it a bit. This style of gun is pretty decent for someone who wants a P365/365XL sized gun but just doesn't like strikers. I carried the old CDS9 I got last summer quite a bit as my go to "I want to bring a gun but I don't want to deal with carrying a gun any more than I have to" since last year. It's a fine carry gun - the biggest gripe was holster selection was "cheeks" (as the kids say) up until a few months ago when Muddy River Tactical picked it up. The Kim Pro finish probably wears off high points on the gun a bit quicker than even a cerakote - but it looks nice in the case. If you haven't had a Stainless gun - the slide will mark if you hit it on other stuff - which is basically entirely the process of me putting it into my carry safe (it has a rack, I sometimes hit it on the other guns next to it) But the biggest difference is this de-featured gun - it ...
