A highlight in my life was listening to a German mechanical engineer bitching about German mechanical engineering. Was a 5/5 rant, would listen to again.
Back on topic, my lord is that an ugly pistol and that’s coming from a guy that actually likes Glock aesthetics.
I’m a guy who thinks Walther pistols look just fine, and I’ll say this thing looks like the Steyr M9 and a Taurus G3 had a child they were embarrassed to let leave the house.
To answer an earlier query, I do believe it’s uglier than a Hi Point.
And when a main selling point for your pistol is just that the controls are “unique” without describing how they are actually better than the alternatives, you’re off to a bad start. Lots of things are unique in a bad way. Lots of things.
I am rather surprised that on a generally performance-oriented board people care how this thing looks as opposed to how it runs, shoots, recoils and tracks. I don't really care about the look; I actually think it looks better than XD, most Caniks, and many Walthers.
The two things that make me wonder is an optic cut and trigger guard. Optic cut seems to be a bit too forward; @GJM pointed that out. Trigger guard is slanted forward and may push the support hand down. On the other hand, this could be because the undercut is so high, which means that the strong hand will be really high up too.
I kinda hope they bring it to the US for us to check it out.
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Fair point.
My big concern is more than likely this may require adjusting/shifting the firing hand grip versus the H&K paddle or commonly used button for ejection. Your thumb would have to be used to swipe that magazine release (I don’t think you could remove or swipe with digits on the other hand)
You know, thinking about this - FN may be releasing this stateside with a button release later on and they know the US market and thats coming. That would make sense.
In Europe this may be a super fail-safe from the magazine being released. I joked about heel releases. But they do like things like that and magazine safeties.
FN - all jokes aside on how unsightly this is - did realize there was a BHP market and re-introduced it in short order. They’re pretty sharp. We will see.
God Bless,
Brandon
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That's why it would be interesting to finger one and see how it worked. The motion would be similar to decocking a classic SIG but location of a button is more favorable and the throw should be shorter.
I doubt they'll redesign it for the US market. FNH has been the only maker (unless I am missing somebody else) who has tried to compete with HK in bringing fully ambi designs to the market. I believe that FNH's prior versions of ambi mag releases didn't cut it and this is their next stab at it.
I am sure that a history of US agencies effectively demanding push buttons in their solicitations had nothing to do with FNH decision.
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