MadcapMagician
Regular
- Location
- Thunder Bay, Ontario
I was able to sneak out to the range this afternoon to take out the TP9SA pistol by Century Arms. (Courtesy of iRunGuns)
Synopsis... AWESOME
I went with 250 rounds of Federal American Eagle 115gr FMJ and Remington 115gr FMJ. I got rained out after 200 rounds of American Eagle.
So my observations in no particular order.
This pistol points naturally and when it actually comes time to stare down the sight and pull the trigger it is so nice. I love the sights on this pistol.
This is my first 10 rounds fired.
Like I've said in other posts I'm no expert when it comes to pistols and my aim is lacking but I was pretty happy with that group considering I'd never shot the pistol before.
This was the second round of shots.
Things tightened up a little bit and this is what the groups ended up looking like for the majority of the targets. I'd like to go back again and give it another go and see if I can improve things a bit.
A couple notes about the actual pistol. Mine likes to throw the first piece of brass from each mag back in my face. I had a few bouncing off my glasses and hat. Don't know why. Don't really care. just an observation.
A bright shining star for this pistol is the trigger. It is very crisp and is light. It's very nice.
On a superficial note.
This thing gets dirty!
I've never shot American Eagle 9mm before so I don't know if its known to be dirty or not. Obviously the pistol being tan lends itself to getting dirty quite easily.
Another thing I noted is that my hands were getting dirty just from firing.
You can see that where my LH thumb sits (I'm right handed so on the left of the slide) powder and gasses are escaping underneath the slide by the slide release. I've never experienced this with my other pistols so I don't know if this is common or not.
I was also getting ALOT of black on the ejected brass. More so than on my other pistols.
You can also see the powder marks on the RH side of the back of the barrel.
In the end I put 200 rounds of American Eagle through and loved it.
It did not have a single hiccup. I even picked up a couple pieces of dud ammo off the ground and tried them and they fired as well.
There were no jams, no misfeeds, no FTF's, FTE's.
The only thing I noticed is at the end of the 200 rounds the slide wouldn't automatically hold open when I racked it with the mag in. Or rather it would lock open intermittently.
My final conclusions is that I really like this pistol. It is reliable, looks awesome, shoots great and price was incredible.
Side note: Never used the decocker
After confirming that this is SA only the decocker is indeed useless.
I definitely would like to get more mags for this in the future. Haven't seen any around though. Perhaps iRunGuns can chime in with mags or a source.
Thanks for reading. Now time to clean.
Synopsis... AWESOME
I went with 250 rounds of Federal American Eagle 115gr FMJ and Remington 115gr FMJ. I got rained out after 200 rounds of American Eagle.
So my observations in no particular order.
This pistol points naturally and when it actually comes time to stare down the sight and pull the trigger it is so nice. I love the sights on this pistol.
This is my first 10 rounds fired.
Like I've said in other posts I'm no expert when it comes to pistols and my aim is lacking but I was pretty happy with that group considering I'd never shot the pistol before.
This was the second round of shots.
Things tightened up a little bit and this is what the groups ended up looking like for the majority of the targets. I'd like to go back again and give it another go and see if I can improve things a bit.
A couple notes about the actual pistol. Mine likes to throw the first piece of brass from each mag back in my face. I had a few bouncing off my glasses and hat. Don't know why. Don't really care. just an observation.
A bright shining star for this pistol is the trigger. It is very crisp and is light. It's very nice.
On a superficial note.
This thing gets dirty!
I've never shot American Eagle 9mm before so I don't know if its known to be dirty or not. Obviously the pistol being tan lends itself to getting dirty quite easily.
Another thing I noted is that my hands were getting dirty just from firing.
You can see that where my LH thumb sits (I'm right handed so on the left of the slide) powder and gasses are escaping underneath the slide by the slide release. I've never experienced this with my other pistols so I don't know if this is common or not.
I was also getting ALOT of black on the ejected brass. More so than on my other pistols.
You can also see the powder marks on the RH side of the back of the barrel.
In the end I put 200 rounds of American Eagle through and loved it.
It did not have a single hiccup. I even picked up a couple pieces of dud ammo off the ground and tried them and they fired as well.
There were no jams, no misfeeds, no FTF's, FTE's.
The only thing I noticed is at the end of the 200 rounds the slide wouldn't automatically hold open when I racked it with the mag in. Or rather it would lock open intermittently.
My final conclusions is that I really like this pistol. It is reliable, looks awesome, shoots great and price was incredible.
Side note: Never used the decocker
After confirming that this is SA only the decocker is indeed useless.I definitely would like to get more mags for this in the future. Haven't seen any around though. Perhaps iRunGuns can chime in with mags or a source.
Thanks for reading. Now time to clean.
