Took the new P9 (special ordered w/ night sights) out tonight after shooting bowling pins.
Shot in 45 Minutes:
400 Rounds of Blazer
100 Rounds of WinClean
50 Rounds of Speer Lawman
40 Rounds of Cor-bon 124 gr
Experienced 2 malfunctions, both slide locking back over a loaded mag, most likely due to bumping the slide stop with my thumb. The slide stop does stick out a bit.
The gun dripped factory oil from every orifice, even after a quick clean the night before.
Trigger is not as smooth as my K40 Elite, nor did I expect it to be.
Gun shoots to point of aim if careful trigger control is applied. It's easy to lose the sight picture during the long trigger pull. Pop cans on strings were easy at 7 yds. Accuracy is good, with the trigger pull caveat.
I shot several mags as fast as I could pull the trigger, no malfunctions on these mags. (It is so cool to see four cases in a rainbow coming out of the gun...)
Recoil is AMAZINGLY light. The P9 is my only "plastic" major caliber gun (the other is the TFL mandatory kel-tec p32), and the frame flex thing is so true. The cor-bon loads were easy to control, and overall recoil was MUCH lighter than ANY load in the K40. AMAZING...
The gun was a bitch to get apart. The slide has to be all the way back for the slide stop to come out.
In summary, the gun is everything I wanted. It is a cheap understudy to my k40, it is lighter, and more corrosion resistant than the k40 for summer CCW.
One of the Range Employees shot it at my urging and vowed to get one. He too raved about the recoil.
Druthers? I want the trigger pull of my K40 Elite 98. That's It. A great gun.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with Army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege." Wilson vs. State, Ark. 1878
Shot in 45 Minutes:
400 Rounds of Blazer
100 Rounds of WinClean
50 Rounds of Speer Lawman
40 Rounds of Cor-bon 124 gr
Experienced 2 malfunctions, both slide locking back over a loaded mag, most likely due to bumping the slide stop with my thumb. The slide stop does stick out a bit.
The gun dripped factory oil from every orifice, even after a quick clean the night before.
Trigger is not as smooth as my K40 Elite, nor did I expect it to be.
Gun shoots to point of aim if careful trigger control is applied. It's easy to lose the sight picture during the long trigger pull. Pop cans on strings were easy at 7 yds. Accuracy is good, with the trigger pull caveat.
I shot several mags as fast as I could pull the trigger, no malfunctions on these mags. (It is so cool to see four cases in a rainbow coming out of the gun...)
Recoil is AMAZINGLY light. The P9 is my only "plastic" major caliber gun (the other is the TFL mandatory kel-tec p32), and the frame flex thing is so true. The cor-bon loads were easy to control, and overall recoil was MUCH lighter than ANY load in the K40. AMAZING...
The gun was a bitch to get apart. The slide has to be all the way back for the slide stop to come out.
In summary, the gun is everything I wanted. It is a cheap understudy to my k40, it is lighter, and more corrosion resistant than the k40 for summer CCW.
One of the Range Employees shot it at my urging and vowed to get one. He too raved about the recoil.
Druthers? I want the trigger pull of my K40 Elite 98. That's It. A great gun.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with Army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege." Wilson vs. State, Ark. 1878