Tisas W 2# 9.6 oz Trigger 5#
Very smooth slide etc, but long trigger. trigger pull heavy but pretty crisp. Slide to frame fit pretty loose but tolerable. Sights lame 3 dot but usable in good light. Surprised by how smooth the gun’s action was.
Springfield W: 2# 10.7 oz Trigger 4.25#
My attempt at poor man’s Springfield Professional. Trigger maybe creepier and less pleasant than Tisas, safety needs to be blended (painful), slide to frame fit surprisingly super tight, no movement. Sights probably my least favorite, huge fiber optic on front. Came with Pachmyer wrap around grips which I changed to cheap dimple grips for testing consistency.
Kimber DS Warrior: W: 2# even Trigger 4#
This gun feels light, especially for a 5” gun, probably due to its aluminum frame. The grip feels nice and slimmer than the P, more like a 1911. Safety blending could be better. It feels like it might be oversprung or something compared to others—maybe mainspring? Slide to frame fit is extremely tight but smooth—no play up/down or side to side; it's tighter than the Staccato C on par with P. Sights pretty good. Trigger quite nice and will probably get better over time. Pretty nice sights, tritium front, but I prefer the Staccato C sights.
I only shot this gun about 10 times, the Staccato C shot way better even though it is smaller and lighter so I didn’t see a need to put more rounds on this as its going to be sold, and the number of guns to test was already overwhelming. Gun seems promising, but being lightweight and 5” it struggled against the competition here especially given its size/weight. It seemed to jump around or buck more in recoil than the other guns. I would be more interested in this if the Staccato C and CZ shadow 2 compact weren’t such animals. My instinct is that lighter springs might make this gun pretty nice.
Staccato P. W: 2# 7.1 oz Trigger 4.5#
If I had to summarize: Great gun that, for me, is simply outclassed and outperformed by the C. Preferred Kimber's trigger, P is creepy, heavy and the actual trigger wiggles all over the place in its slot-- unpleasant and laughable for the price. Tight slide to frame, tighter than any other Staccato I have felt, slide fit on par with Kimber. Grip feels bigger than kimber but comfier. I tried to shoot this with dot off cowitnessing the irons in the test, but unlike the C, the irons seemed to shoot way low. So I quickly zeroed the dot and used it.
Staccato C: W: 1# 13.9 oz Trigger 4#
Trigger had the cleanest break and nicest feel. Flat trigger not my choice, but what was available, not as comfortable as curved to me and hits right in front of my finger joint. I was worried the grip might be too small since I sometimes have trouble getting my support hand on guns, but the grip was goldilocks and probably my favorite (though the shadow 2 compact is also nice in its own, racier way). Tiny bit of side to slide play in slide, but less than another C I have felt. Sights were surprisingly nice and worked well.
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Here are the two guns I had pretty much settled on before realizing my ignorance about 1911/2011s might be worth addressing. I usually shoot on some farmland at 25 yards fairly slowly. My actual use case is shooting smallish pests or hogs on the farm, so I test guns more for that than for self defence. I was/am willing to get rid of either or both to of these to fund whatever shoots best.
Shadow 2 Compact W: 1# 15oz. Trigger 3#
Stock except for Lok palmswell grips and holosun 507c 2moa dot. This gun has pretty much destroyed any gun I have put it up against, including guns listed as below as Glock 19 challengers and a full size Shadow 2 with 507 comp. This gun feels like a BMW m3 to me. The recoil is quick but precise and the trigger is light in single action. The grip feels like I can get high up, lock in and just rip. The second handgun I ever bought was a CZ SP01 and I really liked it— incidentally the first gun I ever bought was a Kimber Gold Match II in 45. Recoil is a little more "direct" than the Staccato C--C is plusher feeling.
Glock 19 Gen 5 W: 1# 8.6 oz Trigger 5#
Stock except taran tactical sights and handleit stick on grip. I have compared several guns to this gun (CZ P07, CZ P10c, CZ P01, 2x Glock 45’s, Gen4 Glock 34, 17, 19, Tisas 4.25” 9mm 1911, usaSig P226) and usually walk away feeling like if I had to perform on demand I would take the Glock 19g5 for both speed and accuracy. That said I am maybe a little more accurate with German sigs and considerably more with the CZ s2c.
