So this showed up from Century yesterday - full disclosure. It's kind of like a rival but with a ported barrel/compensator.
I got the dot mounted on it - it's the Canik MO3 - which is a huge window dot - basically SRO sized that will mount directly on the slide with a lovely low deck height. I've had good luck with the M02. This is a $250 6 MOA dot with about an SRO sized window. So far so good.
The compensator isn't a true compensator - it's a steel shroud that hooks over a slot cut in the final bit of the barrel - it's very easy to remove - I don't know if you can consider this barrel threaded or not- it kind of is?
The extras Caniks are known for are improved. Their optic plate got a bit better with a slight refresh. The freebie holster is much better than the rival one. They give you a lower rate recoil spring.
The grip texture is insanely good - way better than a typical rival. Slide serrations are better. I'm excited about this gun - curious how compensator works as it's not really a compensator. I have a Bul Tomahawk Pro (ported glock clone) showing up Monday - and I'll probably do a head to head with the Rival vs the Shadow Systems versus the Bull Pro.
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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Are we going to get to the point where the newer latest greatest phase kind of chills out and this is just the guns that we get for a while? I mean what firearms needs do you have that aren't being met by one of the products offered? I don't have the capacity to imagine what we can do at this point with centerfired handguns. Other than make them less expensive - potentially.
I legit don't have a clue - curious if you have a better imagination than I do with where we go from here.
So I'm not a huge fan of this gun. The ports on the side of the comp don't really do anything. The recoil spring is over sprung so it chokes the gun if shot one handed with both 115 and 135.
It's softer than the P4.5 - kind of - but less reliable.
I like the C4X better. It's just not amazing.
So I was doing stage practice this morning. Per a conversation with Aaron Eddins a while back - he does one cold run in match mode, a "hair on fire" run - as quick as possible - accept less on sights - a focus run - trying to get all alpha ignoring time (to an extent) - then a new "match" run. When I do stage work I'll play with this and see what I'm getting from the performances and play with stuff I'm observing to see if I can either get better consistency or better times.
The stage was a little 11 shot stage with a two step move to the left drawing to a no shoot partial at 15 ish yards - open target at 22 yards - probably a 7-8 step move to the middle position with a narrow window coming onto a no shoot partial at probably 6 yards and an open target at the same - 4-5 steps to the right 25 yard open - finish on a 10" or so plate.
Cold run was a 9.48 - 2 Charlie - so would be like a 5.38 factor. The speed mode where I had a mike no shoot on the close no shoot partial - but otherwise "OK" ...
