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It was good to see you out with your new toy Terry.

Ewen

check out Genesis, best by miles.

I would be interested.

Ewen

sounds great and I am glad she is still being used.

I have never had an issue with AW skins and lying behind one feels like coming home. 

Nice rifle there David. 

Can you handle the weight in your system ok? 

OK it's yours. 

PM me your address and I will get it off to you. 

Ewen 

Leupold black nylon protective case for tactical spotter.

Free to good home, never used, just stick a donation in Help 4 Heroes.

Ewen

Brilliantly, my shooting buddy has an identical set up and slay his body weight in rabbits and foxes with bullets in the 50ish range.

(Ours are Lothar Walther barrels fired from a DTS SRS , just for info)

Ewen

Not at all, 

My goto rifle is an 18" 1x7 twist that throws 105 at 2850 easily and 1/4 moa accuracy.  Easy 1000 yard gun.

God shoots a .243 you know.

Ewen

fjallraven 

16 hours ago, ds1 said:

Ewen, I have tried it but only 20 rounds a while ago. Think of it like a Chiappa Rhino. Very little muzzle rise but the recoil goes back into your wrist - it’s quite a direct recoil. The 2011s that I have shot have less direct recoil and muzzle flip is controlled by the compensator.

The grip on the Alien feels nicer than the 2011  in my hands - it is very cz like. The gas system- same principle as HK p7 -/m13 etc and same issue - it gets hot, a German YouTube channel shot 50 rounds through it fast - around the trigger was 90+C I think. Barrel life may be an issue from what I’ve read on Czech forums - around 40k, not surprising considering the heat issues. This is not one season of IPSC shooting practice for some I know. It’s an IPSC game gun but some top shooters have used it and gone back to a Shadow 2.

Richard  makes the holster and bags for it so I would sooner cut my di*k off with a pair of rusty scissors than buy one but I fully acknowledge that as my personal bias. The Alien comes with much more kit than the STI like separate top rails with iron sights and an included RTS 2 red dot so I think is better value.

 

Whats the issue with Richard?

1 hour ago, ds1 said:

So birthday time, and it’s been a crap start to the New Year. Decided to cheer myself up......some will know on here that I own my own range in CZ and run courses for sport shooting, civi CCW , police. 70% of the time it’s pistol stuff and the rest carbine 9mm / 223 etc I want a pistol that I can CCW and also be a range toy that’s fun to shoot. The Cz Shadow 2 ticks most of the boxes but it’s heavy to CCW and I wanted something of better quality.

 I ended up with a STI Costa Carry Comp. it’s an integral compensated  2011 9mm that’s very well put together. I would describe it as middle of the road price wise at around £4K and not a custom gun. There are better- SVI, Atlas, AKAI, Nighthawk and others spring to mind but you can easily drop 6-8k for them. The 2011 design - basically a double stack 9mm was around in the U.K. I think just before the pistol ban - Caspian sold frame kits. The primary market is / was IPSC / USPSA but companies particularly STI ( name now changed to Staccato) developed the 2011 for more service / duty use. The Costa is an early collaboration with Chris Costa on a limited production run to get them into that sort of market place. The first run had Costas name on the left, side ports in the compensator and a flats on the barrel hood to match the slide tri-cut. They then did a limited (200) run for the Magnum PI series ( new version of Tom Selek ). It had black grips, no Costa billboard and solid compensator side walls. I guess after they made 200 they carried on making them with normal serial numbers and tan grips......which is what I have. 
 

The pistol feature a monolithic barrel and compensator, billet steel frame with plastic grip. Island front sight.  Trigger weigh is a bit heavy for me at 3lbs but reset is excellent. Tri-cut slide. Attention to detail is excellent- lack of any machine marks and the slide is as smooth as glass on the rails. It has it’s price.  I will try a trijicon Mount for the SRO on it but it will take time to arrive from the states.

I've not shot it yet - plan is next week to go to a private range - a bloke bought a cz Alien so want to get some testing impressions side by side against that- also happens he has his own legal shooting range in the basement of his house - 20m - as you do.

 

I am super keen to try the Alien. The tech seems logical.

I have a couple of the EC Tuner brakes and they work well.

Ewen

Fingers crossed.

Hope to keep you busy next year.

Ewen

This is done to control neck tension.

An external bushing and internal expander mandrel allow the controlling of neck tension to an exact amount.

ewen

Hi

I will take these, how would you like to be paid.
 

Ewen

I dont think Gen 2 have been released yet.

could be wrong though.

ewen

What is the .308 action?

Been beta testing Tim’s app and downloaded and used the app tonight ( in theory).

it is slick,,,,,,!!!!!!!

When we can we should pull a trigger together

Thats rifle looks lovely.

A bargain for someone.......A tub of Varget for £5500 and a free Rifle and Scope thrown in !!!   🙂

Seriously though a bargain and If there is a Northamptonshire buyer I am happy to act as the RFD free of charge,

Ewen

Good luck

Fair points