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Graham Baates & Teya Freeman from GBGuns Depot detailed video review – Tara TM-9X Shooting Impressions
The “Tara TM-9X Shooting Impressions” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfN71ZBcgvc. A typical gun review will include 7 segments for example this video had the introduction Tara TM-9X Shooting Impressions, Starting Cold, Full Mag +1, What’s For Dinner?™, Trigger Control Test, Nosler Match Accuracy Test and After Shots. Below we provide the complete transcript of the YouTube video.
00:09
welcome back to gb guns
00:10
we’re out today with the tm 9x
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by tara um haven’t shot this
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we have 10 rounds piece of steel down
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there at the
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usual distance just going to get a feel
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of the gun
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and then we’ll get on with the rest of
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the review
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so
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[Music]
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that’s really pleasant to shoot very
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very controllable
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really easy to get back on sites um
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and it just feels great in the hand and
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and the sights are amazing let’s see
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what graham thinks
01:24
we’re finally out with the tara tm-9x
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thank you for your patience on this
01:28
but uh 68 cents a shot really has
01:32
put a damper on our shooting we’re using
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igman
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ammunition this is out of the former
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yugoslavia
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believe it’s serbian made i hadn’t heard
01:41
of the brand before i thought only ppu
01:42
was in serbia
01:44
so that’s interesting and a montenegrin
01:46
pistol
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just holding it and you probably saw
01:50
this on the table top
01:51
the tang is cut nice and high so you
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really get your hand deep under there
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almost
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kind of cz feeling see how
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gum works for me
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the trigger stroke is kind of like a
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double action
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this particular tm9 is supposed to be
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the double action version
02:21
but it doesn’t have that double action
02:23
pulling heavier and heavier and heavier
02:25
you’re definitely pulling a weight but
02:27
you still get to a wall after which
02:28
it breaks
02:34
fairly predictably it’s pretty
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comfortable
02:42
surprisingly comfortable to shoot uh
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initial note
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just on hand fitment feel is the
02:50
width of the grip not with that ways but
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i guess the length the front to the rear
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down here
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feels really long there are different
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back straps uh i tried
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as much as i could even with input from
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you guys as to
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how to get that little tab out there and
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i only ended up damaging the polymer i
03:06
couldn’t get the stinking tool out to be
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able to swap the straps so we’re running
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with the factory strap
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and yeah it’s a little little long back
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here
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next we’ll of course do our full mag
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plus one then we’re gonna do what’s for
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dinner
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tea and i will each take some group
03:22
shots for accuracy collective thoughts
03:24
we also have our spinner challenge to
03:26
look forward to
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to test our ability to control this
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trigger and these sites
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and then we’ll give you our closing
03:32
thoughts afterwards
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the intro to the what’s for dinner is
03:41
always full mag plus one and not every
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gun passes this
03:44
it’s kind of a test of magazine design
03:48
and magazine fitment within the gun
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we’ve got one round
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and a full 18 rounds 17 rounds
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and another mag which puts maximum
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pressure on the magazine for that start
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now this igman ammunition is nicely
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polished so we shouldn’t have any issues
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from that it’s actually
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pretty stuff i’m going to be shooting at
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the steel so i got something to aim at
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i’m going to try to hit as rapidly as i
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can
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so finding that balance of speed and
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accuracy but also just looking to see
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how these magazines run since they do
04:23
appear to be unique to this gun they’ve
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got a different cut on the front of them
04:29
to accommodate the
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ambidextrous magazine release working
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from both sides
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so your ability to find replacement
04:35
magazines might be a little tougher
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here we go
04:49
no issues from the gunfire in there i
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did notice
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the recoil the gun rose in my arms that
04:56
might just be that i’m out of practice
04:57
there
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but it was very controllable and despite
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that being a double action trigger
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i consider that to be a decent speed
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should you ever need to dump multiple
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rounds
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that’s pretty cool now we’ll see what
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eats in what’s for dinner tv dinner tray
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is out and
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it’s what’s for dinner time time to see
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what the gun will eat
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for those of you unfamiliar with this
05:17
test what we do is fire
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10 different loads including steel case
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brass case aluminum case
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nickel plated brass hollow points full
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metal jackets truncated rounds you name
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it
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i’ll let you look at the different
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profiles here as we come by
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and see the different rounds and of
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course they’re all different shapes
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different overall lengths
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their ogives are in different points and
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that can
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affect the ability of the round to feed
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we fire three rounds of each
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why just three rounds well for a couple
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reasons one is economics it’s silly to
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burn well what could easily these days
05:50
be over a hundred dollars in ammo
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on this but also mainly because we’re
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not looking to test the ammo itself
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we’re looking to see if the gun and the
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ammo work together so we need to say
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does it feed
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from slide lock and chamber these
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different bullet shapes
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then is there enough energy from the
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round to cycle the gun
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and feed the next round third round to
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reduce variables
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and then does it lock open on empty that
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can be done
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with just three rounds once again a big
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thanks to our patreon supporters and our
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ammo squared
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subscribers you guys are how we can
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afford to keep on doing this
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even in 2021. let’s get to so the way
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this works for those of you that are new
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we fire the three rounds you’re going to
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see the gun
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in action to see any malfunctions happen
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if they happen
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and then we’re going to show you our
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target we’re shooting from 7 yards away
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the reason why we shoot at an actual
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target for each of these loads is we
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want to see if point of impact
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is wildly different for any of them
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sometimes it is sometimes it isn’t
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comes down to the rifling style barrel
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length
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lots of variables borealis effect
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because that sounds tactical when i say
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it anyways we’re
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starting off with our super lightweight
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civil trainers 65 grain
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not only are these a snub-nosed round
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but they’re very lightweight
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so higher chance of choking a gun
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fed from slide lock let’s see how it
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does
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kind of snappy
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my first shot is the one that was low
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dropped a little bit
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why because well this is a double action
07:39
trigger and i haven’t shot
07:42
double action in a minute i didn’t see
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it but tia noted it
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that the rounds were just hardly
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ejecting out of that so that might have
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been
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on the fringe of what kind of energy
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this gun will cycle
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next is blazer aluminum 115 grain full
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metal jacket
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remember aluminum and steel expand and
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contract at a different rate than brass
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and also have different friction on the
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casing and that’s what causes some guns
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to choke on them
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and others not for the second target
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i mash that one
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so it looks like i’m having a little bit
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of stumbling on this double action
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and finding the same wall that i thought
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was so notable earlier
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has now caused him to throw shots a
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little low but the tara
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is american gunner this is a well was a
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rather affordable hollow point
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it’s suitable for competition or defense
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they say it’s kind of an all-around
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hollow point 115 grain little tiny
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triangular bullet like you saw
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as we’re showing almost looks like a
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380. kind of a short overall length
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fed from sidelock
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starting to learn that trigger a little
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better no cycling issues
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now we’ve got wolf steel case 115 grain
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that friction point i made about steel
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that’s that in addition to its ability
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to rust
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is why a lot of steel case rounds you
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see either have a polymer coating or
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lacquer these don’t seem to have
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anything on them i can’t feel anything
09:32
but see how it runs in the chamber
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punchy
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but consistent no issues in the gun
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and man with uh
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this gun really tucking your hand up
10:03
underneath it it’s
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not bad at all i just wish it wasn’t so
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long front to rear at the bottom of the
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grip next up a
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crowd favorite the latest hypnus in
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self-defense
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actually sorry no it’s been replaced
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with the punch but before that
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it was the federal hsts these 124 grain
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hollow points these are actually labeled
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tactical on top of that
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versus non-tactical
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can be a little punchy but they have a
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nickel plated case which helps against
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corrosion and helps with
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nice feeding
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it’s punchy i wonder if federal would
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consider renaming these punch
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consistent
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very consistent
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no issues in the tarot for my first go
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at what’s for dinner we’ve got the spear
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gold dot this is the
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duty ammunition in 124 green
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[Applause]
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what’s funny is i didn’t realize that
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this was a double action until graham
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mentioned it
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because the trigger is just so nice it’s
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pretty smooth
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remington umc led less
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in 124 grain graham is noting and having
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me know and find the irony
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and that it’s not lead free just lead
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less
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i like it though
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the gun sure stays pretty flat in your
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hand it’s a
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really con it’s really controllable i
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think it’s again because like you
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mentioned that
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it it sits there in that the cup of your
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thumb that tang really really helps
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control that
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and next is the norma hexagon and 124
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grain
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i always find that these are really
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pretty
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that’s important to girls
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trigger’s got a really nice reset on it
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yeah it sort of uh springs your finger
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back
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it does but not too far and you don’t
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have to regain
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any travel once it does that
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and next is the federal syntek it’s blue
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it’s a segmented jacketed hollow point
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that’s synthetically coated
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that one’s 138 grain i think yes
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kind of an oddball weight
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sounded like it was subsonic too it’s
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it’s always such a pleasant round to
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shoot nice shooting
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and for my last go at what’s for dinner
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158 grain ppu
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these are the subsonic rounds they’re
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always usually pretty fun
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[Music]
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usually
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[Music]
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what i really like about this gun being
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double action is that most double
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actions really kind of give you
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that fear that you really have to pull
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and it changes
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the way you’re holding the gun almost
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especially with a shorter hand and i’m
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not feeling that with this at all
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i really liked it well the trigger test
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is coming up next
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with the spinner how many rounds should
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we give ourselves
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with the trigger test i need more rounds
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this time i’m going with 10.
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well now the fun time we have
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a spinner here this is from titan great
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outdoors um did review on it a while
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back
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and it has become quite the test so it’s
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um
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somewhat the gun it’s more your ability
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to learn the gun
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on the target where at about 12 yards we
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each have 10 shots
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and we’re going to try to flip that
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thing over the top
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sometimes it happens sometimes it
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doesn’t what you have to do is
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the shooter you got to hit it get it
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moving and then make sure your next shot
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hits it while it’s swinging away
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to carry momentum if you hit it while
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it’s swinging towards it kills it
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and then it just stops moving we’ve got
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10 rounds this time to
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give it an attempt why it’s useful in
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doing gun reviews is
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one we gotta really pay attention to
15:42
these sites and two we have to time our
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shot which comes down to our ability to
15:46
learn the trigger
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now our tni average shooters maybe maybe
15:49
not
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but how quickly we can get used to this
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trigger to be able to time those shots
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and land it plus the sights plus the
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time pressure because the more
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it’s moving the faster it’s moving the
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harder it is
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and it’s just kind of fun let’s have at
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it
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ten rounds of this eggman loaded up
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and here we go
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almost
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ah
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almost so
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[Applause]
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here’s my thoughts on the gun in doing
16:49
that
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one i will also say the ammo you’re
16:52
using can determine
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your chances of success this is 115
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grain
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because it’s not hitting as hard as like
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124s would
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but as far as it matters to you guys um
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i got back to finding that predictable
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wall and even though it’s a double
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action trigger the reset as tia said
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kicks you right to where you need to be
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that wall is predictable and made for
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very predictable shots
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and the sight picture obviously clear
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enough that i was able to
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land those hits so for the spinner test
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with the tara
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in my opinion it’s a good gun now it’s
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tia’s turn
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i think that we’re learning that graham
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may be a little bit competitive also
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[Laughter]
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and i’m hoping that it’s not the ammo
18:05
i don’t know why this makes me so
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nervous
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because we’re not on camera i can do it
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i yank that one
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nope
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10 rounds didn’t save me today
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um but still
18:44
a really effective way to
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learn the gun learn the trigger learn
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the sights
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yeah how did it work for you sights and
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trigger wise
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sights and trigger wise the the gun
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didn’t move it
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that wasn’t my issue with not being able
19:03
to do it my issue is
19:05
that momentum that it gets that it has
19:08
once it starts going
19:10
gives me a little bit of anxiety because
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i i pay too much attention to which
19:15
direction is it going
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and then i’m concerned that i’m taking
19:18
too long between shots and that y’all
19:20
are gonna
19:21
you know find something unpleasant about
19:24
that
19:25
so the mental pressure of the game
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not the firearm itself right yeah that
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that is
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by and far i think
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what prevents me from getting that thing
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over the top
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when filming all right let’s do uh some
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accuracy testing and then
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wrap it up so for accuracy
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we’re using the same targets we were
19:50
before we’ve each got one left on the
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side that we were using we’re going to
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use the nosler 115 grain
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and as graham reminded me they’re a
20:10
little punchy however the gun still
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didn’t
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move
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like i’m not readjusting my hand between
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shots like
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i have been known to do with others
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that was five oh that’s five
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there’s never enough ammo at the end of
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the gun i’ll also be using the nozzle
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115 grain
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match jacketed hollow points and uh
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steel is coming they can be oh
20:53
did not want to feed that one
20:56
take a look at that round and see what
20:57
happened so
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no issues are marring on the round
21:01
itself they are
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loaded a bit shorter than a lot of nine
21:05
mil
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interesting that we had that issue there
21:09
had it again
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same round
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but we didn’t have it with the hornet
21:15
american gunner which is another short
21:16
round hollow point
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but uh anyways yeah they can be a little
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punchy and sometimes unpleasant
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in uh smaller guns but we’ll see how
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this does
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tia set the bar pretty hard by pretty
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high by punching the center dot on our
21:35
first shot
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that one surprised me
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that one came a little late
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so interesting note and part of why we
22:10
do this is of course two people
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shooting free-handed isn’t an absolute
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mechanical accuracy test
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but it shows the ability to shoot
22:18
accurately with a particular gun
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the trigger got funky on me twice there
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once
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i didn’t feel the wall it just went the
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second time i felt the wall i pulled
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and felt like it should have already
22:35
gone off and then it happened
22:37
so it might be a mechanical issue we’ll
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discuss that more
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uh in our closing thoughts so closing
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dots and
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t and i both just analyzed the gun and
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what had happened there because i kind
22:48
of felt something with it
22:49
um just in dry practice at home kind of
22:52
getting to know the gun you can see
22:55
we’ve got a clear firearm here
22:57
i’ll swap over the left hand so you can
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watch the trigger
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since it’s double action only you can
23:02
keep pulling but right there
23:05
it’s not happening anymore fling it
23:07
forward it clicked
23:09
now it’s reset now we’re dead again
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flick and it’s reset
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that of course isn’t the way this gun
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operates when you’re firing
23:19
right because the slide has to rack so
23:20
if i still have this dead trigger
23:22
for the slide racks the trigger gets
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kicked back to where it’s supposed to be
23:26
and functions again so i’m wondering if
23:29
what we experienced there is although
23:31
this is a
23:33
double action of sorts
23:36
if the slide isn’t pushed to its max by
23:39
the round
23:39
some rounds don’t have that much energy
23:41
that’s why we do our what’s for dinner
23:43
dinner test
23:43
and tia commented that she observed with
23:45
some lighter loads
23:46
the ejection pattern a little weak and
23:49
it almost looked like the gun wasn’t
23:50
doing a full travel
23:52
if you’ve got that soft travel let’s see
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if i can do this with the trigger again
23:58
there it is soft travel
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i worked that time
24:04
either way it’s possible the spring
24:06
that’s resetting the trigger
24:07
is maybe not quite as strong as it
24:09
should be or maybe there’s some geometry
24:11
in there that catches up
24:14
well there i just flicked it so it can
24:16
just kind of sit
24:18
and then when it flings now we’re back
24:20
on the pressure to fire again
24:22
and now it’s dead you’d think maybe
24:24
that’s
24:25
avoidable if you’re a pull and release
24:28
kind of person
24:29
that does that with the trigger i shoot
24:33
leaving my finger on the trigger
24:34
trapping it through the recoil and then
24:36
letting the spring reset me right at the
24:39
wall so i can shoot accurately again for
24:41
the next shot
24:41
without the gun dropping like that
24:46
so that part of it’s maybe not a hundred
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percent
24:49
the good news is it appears to be
24:52
resolvable
24:53
by just flicking it or having good
24:54
recoil on the gun or maybe
24:56
not so firm of a grip so the gun can
24:58
jostle itself back into action
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but that is kind of a flaw and maybe a
25:03
slight concern
25:05
outside of that shooting this thing is
25:08
pretty darn pleasant not only do we have
25:11
that longer
25:12
i mean it’s kind of a glock 17 sized gun
25:15
longer sight radius and barrel
25:16
but you really get your hand up
25:20
deep underneath the slide in fact once i
25:22
felt the slide rails
25:23
kiss some of the skin on my wrist until
25:26
i
25:26
got a good hold on it again didn’t get
25:28
cut or bit anywhere
25:30
but that part of it really makes it
25:32
controllable and
25:33
i noticed i’m sure you saw in tia’s
25:36
shooting as well the gun remained
25:37
very flat uh only complaint might be
25:40
that this
25:41
is a little bit long front to rear that
25:43
might be changeable with those other
25:44
back straps except that most of this
25:46
down here
25:47
is not back strap so that’s the gun
25:49
itself
25:50
so those would be my two complaints
25:52
other than that
25:54
very comfortable gun to shoot shoots
25:57
fairly accurately
25:58
we haven’t shot much recently so we’re
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not at our
26:01
tip-top shape like we normally are but
26:03
uh we wanted to get out and
26:05
show you this thing
26:08
as a guy who bought this i’m not gonna
26:11
sell it
26:12
um i’m gonna hold on to it i think this
26:14
is a collector gun we know that
26:16
um tara aerospace has removed this from
26:20
their website
26:21
when their website’s working montenegro
26:23
is a very small country keep in mind
26:25
the village this is produced in only has
26:28
3 000 inhabitants
26:31
so it’s kind of a neat piece in that
26:33
sense
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is it a gun i would trust to carry
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no no not not at this point at this
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point it’s
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it’s a collector gun that i will enjoy
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from time to time but mostly be part of
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a collection
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and not in a holster on my hip
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one of the first things i noticed about
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this uh when
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graham got it home was the texturing it
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looks really aggressive
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but it’s not and it’s really comfortable
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in the hand
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now he’s mentioned how this width here
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feels different for him i find it very
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comfortable
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and i i don’t know why i haven’t
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analyzed that
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much but i find it very comfortable
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because i can fit both hands in there
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really well
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i like having i like having my hands on
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on my firearm what i noticed and noted
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while i was fire firing um
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and then changing the mag in between
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those um
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the the different loads that we were
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shooting for what’s for dinner
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is i was instinctively using
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the ambi mag release with my finger
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and i think that’s because i’m not
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having to change
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my my grip much to use the thumb mag i
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do have to change my grip to use this
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i don’t i just have to draw my finger
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down a lot
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a little bit um i really enjoy the tara
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and i think though that the points that
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graham made
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in what we noted with
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the the trigger
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it’s obviously not a carry gun but it is
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really fun to shoot and i wouldn’t
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hesitate to ask
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to bring it for a range day but yeah not
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something that i would
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encourage someone to have as a as a
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carry gun
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