the Strike has been a slight turn on for me, because I haven't ever seen a rail guided barrel system like that, a kind of fixed barrel system combined with a browning tilt barrel, very cool. are they first to ever do this? the Strike also has as claimed "lowest bore axis of
ANYsemi-auto firearm ever made", that's a cool claim, not quite the Rhino of semi's, but it's getting somewhere. and if claims can be substantiated, who wouldn't want "Lowest recoil of any semiautomatic pistol ever engineered"? sounds like a hard pistol to beat and it' not like they're asking a grand or more for it. the Strike seems to be getting put up on a deserved pedestal, and although expensive, it is a first in the market and get my applauds. innovations like, "short recoil, in line barrel" and "single arch trigger safety, with firing pin automatic safety", will hopefully trickle down to real world guns, at least realistic for me.
The Arsenal has been out for almost three years, so maybe these features have already been copied and they didn't fill the market fast enough before the copies came out. I don't know anything about the DiamondBack DB FS, but are they using the same "glock" type trigger safety without the second(middle) trigger? that's a really cool feature IMO and it's what makes a new product worth the money and exciting. I personally can't stand the middle triggers, don't know why.....but I do. Does the DB share a similarly low-axis? does it also have most of its parts made from 42CrMo4 steel? does it share the expensive metal finishes like 75 Hrc surface nitrite treatment on internals?
In my opinion though, the DB FS looks like a nice gun, but also looks like the function and form mirror a Glock and not the Strike, but with a worse trigger, 7 # is not much like the trigger of the Strike pistol. DB made a notoriously unreliable pocket pistol for a good price, and after quickly reading a couple reviews, it looks like they are making a notoriously unreliable full-size pistol to share in it's glory. I se they really tried to capture the "look" of the Strike, but not the heart of it.
Awesome gun Valerko, thank you for sharing. keep us updated with it reliability in a couple thousand rounds
if you haven't seen this older video of the "behind-the-scenes" factory production, it's pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ug66P0PSlM
you can tell the designer isn't like the other firearm's industry "salespeople", he really loves and cares about what he is doing. I wish them success.
Furthermore, the Strizh pistol on which it's based apparently failed the Russian military trials, and many of the Strike One's benefits are shared with the Caracal, and we all know how that pistol turned out. 