Fight night - battle of the naturally aspirated pistols
On the docket for this weekend was the battle of a couple of my non-ported pistols. I threw a mishmash of pistols to see how they would compare shooting 124gr Mag tech.
- Fowler Industries Vanta 9
- TTI Combat Master
- Dan Wesson DMX
- Nighthawk Customs single stack T3
Results: I feel I need to disclose right off the bat, that two of the pistols have optics (Fowler and DMX) and two are non-optic(Combat Master and Nighthawk). I also need to disclose that my skills with iron sites is rusty at best. That said, today the Fowler ruled the roost. Right off the bat, the groups I was getting out of the Fowler were consistently better than every other pistol. Not too far behind, was the combat master, once I brushed off some of that rust with irons, I was getting really good groups out of the combat master as well and it was shooting as nice as the Fowler. The DMX shot well, but to be honest I was struggling a little bit with it today. But as I started putting more rounds through it, it started performing much better for me so I'll give it a solid third place. My Nighthawk T3, was my first 9mm 2011 and is easily about 15 years old. So it might be a little bit unfair to match it up against modern-day weapons that are tuned much better than they were a decade and a half ago. Still a nice shooter, but it just can't keep up. So for the purposes of today's range day, four guns entered the ring, the Fowler walked out victorious, bloodied by the combat master but winning nonetheless.
Since some of you may ask, yes, it’s a Sig 365 XL in the background, I was testing a new BOE suppressor. I’m working on a hush puppy type build for that XL.