HaliGunian
Regular
- Location
- Nova Scotia
This newest addition to my collection has actually been in my hands for a few weeks now, but it's about damn time I showed it off.
It's the Fabrique Nationale FNS in .40 S&W, 5" barrel, and automatic safety (there's a manual safety model as well). As well as all the other features you'd expect on a modern pistol, including a chamber indicator visible in the last picture, which I still keep forgetting to use instead of racking the slide.
It's actually my first brand new pistol, won from my local range in a raffle that it ran during the end of August tournament. I was actually the second name drawn, since the first guy already had one and decided to be generous (I later gave him a spare laser sight as a thankyou). It's also my first pistol with a striker rather than a hammer.
The trigger pull itself is nice and smooth, with a crisp break to it, while recoil is quite manageable. I honestly thought I wouldn't like the grip at first, since it's more 'spiky' than it actually looks, but it bites into the flesh of your hand nicely, without being uncomfortable, and makes the pistol stay put.
I forgot to take pictures while I was cleaning it, I was too busy cursing aluminium cased ammo and swearing to only use brass from that moment on. But all else aside, it wasn't any trouble to clean, with most of the carbon and grit staying in the slide, while after 200 hundred rounds the magazines only needed to have the lip and follower given a casual wipe.
It's the Fabrique Nationale FNS in .40 S&W, 5" barrel, and automatic safety (there's a manual safety model as well). As well as all the other features you'd expect on a modern pistol, including a chamber indicator visible in the last picture, which I still keep forgetting to use instead of racking the slide.
It's actually my first brand new pistol, won from my local range in a raffle that it ran during the end of August tournament. I was actually the second name drawn, since the first guy already had one and decided to be generous (I later gave him a spare laser sight as a thankyou). It's also my first pistol with a striker rather than a hammer.
The trigger pull itself is nice and smooth, with a crisp break to it, while recoil is quite manageable. I honestly thought I wouldn't like the grip at first, since it's more 'spiky' than it actually looks, but it bites into the flesh of your hand nicely, without being uncomfortable, and makes the pistol stay put.
I forgot to take pictures while I was cleaning it, I was too busy cursing aluminium cased ammo and swearing to only use brass from that moment on. But all else aside, it wasn't any trouble to clean, with most of the carbon and grit staying in the slide, while after 200 hundred rounds the magazines only needed to have the lip and follower given a casual wipe.
