My Steyr L9A1, in all it's glory.
What I can say so far is that the trigger is excellent. Not PPQ-Excellent, but I have a Steyr M With a BT trigger upgrade and the factory L trigger is even better than that. A bit lighter and much more crisp. It has an elongated magazine release, making it easier to reach. If you want magazine retention, you can press on the rearmost part of the button to disengage the magazine without it dropping free. The mag release is also reversible for the unfortunate wrong-handed people. It has a stronger recoil spring, so the slide snaps back into battery with authority.
Here are the three-dots. There's two main problems I have with them:
1. They are three-dot sights on a Steyr M-Series Handgun. Just
no.
2. White rear, red front. Subdued red like this is difficult for the eye to pick up on, so it's a bad color to use on the front sight post you're supposed to focus on.
Also, aesthetics. The splash of red on the otherwise subdued matte greys...
clashes. I just don't like it.
Also in this picture, you can see the new placement of the loaded chamber indicator. It's the circle in the upper left corner of the back-plate. Normally flush to the back of the slide, it protrudes a few millimeters when a round is chamberd, giving a visual and tactile indication of the handgun's state.
Also particularly disappointed no one seems willing to bring in 357sig guns either.
From the date code, my L was manufactured April 2013. Id' be surprised if production .40s or .357s even existed yet.
If a .357 sig conversion kit is offered in Canada, I would be first in line to get one. Just make sure they have the trap sights, okay?
