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.
Just wanted to share this with you guys as an option you might not have heard of. Good quality, good execution, good designs. I don't have any sort of business relationship with them nor have interacted with them beyond giving them my credit card information. Pretty legit.
So sorry for this being posted so last minute - I had this edited like 2-3 weeks ago - conversations were with OAD that it would go live for SHOT - but then they announced it way earlier and I never connected the fact it wasn't attempting to be embargo'd. So I never uploaded it - like an idiot. I finished that drill this morning and never got you guys a preview of it when I DID realize that there wasn't any sort of embargo violation. So yeah. Sorry about that. That all said - I don't know what is about this gun. They - kind of like the Daniel Defense H9 - failed to kind of build on the momentum they started at SHOT 2023 and the conversation seems to have moved past this gun. The early 2311s were not as impressive as this is now - side by side - this is a MUCH better gun than what they were making last year. It's much better fit and the resultant accuracy is improved despite having the ports. My 2311 is production gun - like $600 service pistol accurate - but not 2011 accurate. ...
So in making the 2011 evolving video I was trying to get Todd Jarrett to come on. For those unfamiliar - he's been shooting USPSA since nearly the beginning - he was at the forefront of the sport in the 90's while open was coming into it's own and even has his own specialized cartridge - 38 TJ - for Todd Jarret - it's 38 super brass with a modified extractor groove that allows for full size resizing. So I'm really excited about this - it will take place at some point after SHOT but I wanted to put it out there to you guys - what do you want to know about TJ and the history of 2011 development?
