So on a lark I agreed to do a project checking out a lever gun from Mad Pig Customs - obviously way outside of my normal lane but I like archaic weapons like the 1911 and why not check this out? At first - I was expecting it to be kind of like the Deagle where it's got no practical purpose.
Then in tarting it up with tactical crap I tried to group it at 100 yards yesterday on my rifle range at the range near my house and that group that you sear there was produced from the 125 grain Buffalo Bore JHP. It's 6" higher - but that's 5 shots - the bottom is a near perfect double - all with a stupid HS510C + Magnifier - far from ideal for precision shooting at 100. That got the old noggin jogging. Fast forward to today and I realize that this is the OG 300 black out - with supers it prints itty bitty groups - with subs you a thump things basically silently close up.
So now I have a can on order for this (JK Armament VersaX 9 - that's what the muzzle device that came on the rifle is designed for) and I'm eagerly waiting to get it in and understand how loud it is with subs and what a Sub/Super optic arrangement would be.
FWIW - the above group was with 50 yard zero for Magtech 357 ammo shot at 100 yards - so about a 6" offset from POA to POI at 100 for the 125 grain supers. A silent plinker at 50 might be something I could maraud hogs with.
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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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 ...
So Sig's new 320 magazine 2011 style pistol is now announced. Full ambi controls - series 80 trigger mechanism that got refined similar to the HD Staccatos. Wild that the announcement is like a week after Staccato rolled out the HD 4.6. MSRP is $2399. Obviously - Sig has a black eye they are wading through and this is a gun folks have been asking about forever. From a positioning perspective- they're in the same neighborhood as the Kimber and Bul Armory guns. For the money - you're at a bare bones Staccato HD P4 doorstep. Based on features - I think it's competitive for the money on paper. They'll probably get loads of dropped gun comments on the video. What I do know about the gun through conversations with a few folks off the record
It's been in engineering for literal years - I first heard about it over 2 years ago that it was coming. When they started the project they wanted a really high mean rounds between stoppages - and that took effort to get at - the claim they say for this one is ...
