Word on the Street is the DWX is for real…

[BreechFace]

Regardless, the placement of the rails, whether inside or outside the slide, doesn't have anything to do with the bore axis. Everyone parrots the belief that it does because the slide LOOKS like it's lower in the frame. But basically all that's happening is the frame is taller along the sides of the slide and conceals part of the slide below the rails. The bore is in the same location it needs to be mechanically relative to the hammer, the locking mechanism, the guts, the magazine, the next round, etc.

I think for the most part you are correct, but I would have to verify the difference in alignment of hammer to bore and such on different handguns to see if there is truly achievable lower bore axis. I agree one has to have other items change position other than just the slide to achieve appreciable improvements.

I do have an R51 and it is a different impulse, one can feel a difference there, but there are other variables to consider with the R51 compared to others as well as it is Pederson action, different than most firearms out there, which is why I purchased it for something different. And despite the Gen1's abysmal launch the Gen2's do have a good feel to them and are rated for +P ammo and I haven’t had any issues with my Gen2 so far.

 

[1KPerDay]

R51s look super cool. I wanted to buy one. Then I read all the horriffic stories LOL

 

[HighRoadRover]

Egad, the major auction site has a bunch of them on sale - running around $2000 to $2100 (a few vendors are trying to get more). CZ must have produced a goodly number of them and put them out there rapidly - kudos to them. I know there is a story behind the story here, somehow relating to how CZ took over Colt and had to invest money, and then the war started in the Ukraine and CZ (in the Czech Republic) got contracts for armaments, etc., and I'd love to hear it.

Before I buy one of these I will to wait until I read some reviews and some range reports (I anticipate they will be positive). I just bought a WC SFT9, which I think it a close competitor (e.g., double-stack 1911 with a very narrow grip) and quite a good gun. And I don't like the red! (although that is fixable).

 

[Madcap_Magician]

Egad, the major auction site has a bunch of them on sale - running around $2000 to $2100 (a few vendors are trying to get more). CZ must have produced a goodly number of them and put them out there rapidly - kudos to them. I know there is a story behind the story here, somehow relating to how CZ took over Colt and had to invest money, and then the war started in the Ukraine and CZ (in the Czech Republic) got contracts for armaments, etc., and I'd love to hear it.

Before I guy one of these I will to wait until I read some reviews and some range reports (I anticipate they will be positive). I just bought a WC SFT9, which I think it a close competitor (e.g., double-stack 1911 with a very narrow grip) and quite a good gun. And I don't like the red! (although that is fixable).

I'm first on the list for a DWX Compact from one of the dealers who got the full-size DWX early. I hope they retain the original features from the early sample DWX Compact guns. Front luminescent green sight with tritium insert, black frag-pattern G10 grips, red trigger.



You're spot on, this is really a competitor for the SFX9 more than it is to the 2011 market. I do like that the DWX was available in some numbers at release at many dealers and is going for MSRP - SA did this with the Prodigy and that was a good distribution decision as well. Colt is failboating this right now with the .22 King Cobra, very few out in the wild after a big marketing push and then they're all going for 150% of MSRP.

 

[JR24]

Glock advertising enters the chat and starts to laugh.

Any gunmaker advertising

 

[zaitcev]

I'm first on the list for a DWX Compact from one of the dealers who got the full-size DWX early. I hope they retain the original features from the early sample DWX Compact guns.

What is your take on the incompatible magazine? Seems crazy to me, but I saw people defending that choice because it made the Compact slightly thinner.

 

[JR24]

What is your take on the incompatible magazine? Seems crazy to me, but I saw people defending that choice because it made the Compact slightly thinner.

Seems silly to me, but I guess the two guns full different niches. I’d care (or have cared) more if I ever considered the full size one, but I was only interested in the compact myself.

 

[sevt_chevelle]

It came in earlier and got this.
Can't wait to pick it up

 

[Madcap_Magician]

What is your take on the incompatible magazine? Seems crazy to me, but I saw people defending that choice because it made the Compact slightly thinner.

I don't think we know for sure if something might have changed, but back when it all first started my understanding was that the DWX Compact is going to use CZ75 compact mags. So they may not be cross-compatible with the full-size, but they're still common mags. I don't see a need for the full-size, since it's heavy, the optic cut isn't available yet, and I don't think it fills a niche that there aren't 2011s to fill, but I think the Compact has a niche for mid-size carry kind of around the Staccato C2 and the compact Wilson Combat SFX9-type guns.

So for me since I have no interest in the full-size, I don't much care if the mags are interchangeable.

 

[bc1023]

I just snagged one on GB. Should have it next week

 

[SP5]

I'll pass

 

[JR24]

I just snagged one on GB. Should have it next week

I’ll look forward to your review.