Why no love for the FNH FNX guns?
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Walt Sherrill
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bspillman said:
FNH is a lot like CZ was a few years ago -- great gun makers with a long tradition of quality weapons but mostly known in Europe and the Middle East. But like CZ, FNH never had much of a handgun marketing presence in the U.S. (The main FNH weapon was the Hi-Power, which was presented as a Browning weapon; Browning was only the marketer and importer.) As it was with CZ, it's probably going to take a few years for FNH to get a strong following here.
FNH builds a lot of military weapons for the U.S., and other countries, and have a factory in South Carolina. The FN-509 was created for the US military handgun competition.
FNHs are good guns. I've got two FNS-40s (one I run as a 9mm, with a conversion barrel and a 40-Long Slide which had some trigger work done before I got it.)
The FNS triggers can use some help, but FNH has worked with APEX, and that firm is coming out with a trigger kit in the near future for the new FN-509 and FNS line. (The FNS was the base from which the FN-509 was developed, and they share a lot of key components.)
sevt_chevelle
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I have a FNX is 40 and love it, been keeping on an eye on getting a longslide 40 as well.
I've handled a couple. The FNX seems like good, service grade, pistol to me. I liked it better than the Glocks. But, there are a lot of competing polymer service grade pistols, and apparently the buying public does not see the FNX as a standout. IIRC, before the FNX was the FNP. Before either of those was a big success, FN starts pushing the FNS. I don't think switching emphasis from pistol to pistol has helped FN polymer pistol popularity........ymmv
Cosmodragoon
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The love is there, among people who've actually shot one.
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indie_rocker
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^^^This^^^
I have an FNS-9 and absolutely love it. The trigger smoothed out really nicely after about 500 rounds. It's crazy accurate. The styling is very well done, if you ask me. The huge selling point when I got it was the three magazines it came with.
I will admit to being a little disturbed about FNH releasing a revamped version, the 509, a little over a year after I bought my FNS. I'm still trying to get over that. But I really do love my pistol.
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I have an FNS-9 and absolutely love it. The trigger smoothed out really nicely after about 500 rounds. It's crazy accurate. The styling is very well done, if you ask me. The huge selling point when I got it was the three magazines it came with.
I will admit to being a little disturbed about FNH releasing a revamped version, the 509, a little over a year after I bought my FNS. I'm still trying to get over that. But I really do love my pistol.
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carguychris
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IMHO the FNX (and FNP) haven't gained a huge following for the same reason as the Beretta PX4 and CZ P07—many shooters basically expect polymer frames and one-trigger-pull striker operating systems to go together. DA/SA hammer-fired pistols with polymer frames are regarded as neither fish nor fowl.
Cosmodragoon
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There is some truth to this. I grew up on DA/SA, but that was another era.
I still prefer having the "safety" of a double-action trigger pull with the luxury of an auto-cocked hammer and subsequently light single-action trigger. I discovered both the FNX and PX4 line of pistols through the internet (including this forum) because I was actively looking.carguychris
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Yes. Dunno why everyone is talking about the striker-fired FNS.Yung.gunr said:
The FNP was replaced with the FNX, which has more aggressive grip texture, less prominent decocker/safety levers, and a pair of ambidextrous mag release buttons in place of a reversible single button. As I understand it, the two pistols are largely similar otherwise.
Pinky Carruthers
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I have the FNP 45 and 9. Great guns.
Walt Sherrill
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Sterling said:
Don't know anything about an FN handle melting, but there was an FNX grip problem with ONE GUN -- with a real soft grip. (I don't think it affected function, but it certainly wasn't what was expected -- it was apparently too soft.) FNH made it good. That's the ONLY case of grip/handle failure I've ever read or heard abut for an FNH weapon, and that one was last year sometime, and it's on YOU TUBE, as is the followup. The owner is now happy.
I have also heard stories of grips melting from the hot weather with Glocks in Florida, but those stories are generally told by guys who hate Glocks, and I've never been able to confirm any of them. It's always something someone told them, but never told by a person who had a gun he or she owned fail in that manner.
While a polymer frame can soften a bit at lower-than-melting temperature, the material used in polymer frames is generally a variation of Nylon 6, which melts at about 436 degrees fahrenheit. It's very unlikely that any polymer-framed gun would (or COULD) melt when left on a picnic table without help from a blow-torch or forest fire. Similar stories about guns melting when left on the dash of a closed car also don't ring true -- as car dashes would probably melt, too... but we never hear of that!
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