SCCY CPX-2 9mm Gun Review: Cheap Isn’t Always Better

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SCCY CPX-2 9mm Gun Review: Cheap Isn’t Always Better

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SCCY CPX-2 9mm Gun Review: Cheap Isn’t Always Better - 19FortyFive
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/scc ... ys-better/


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Honestly, I try to talk people out of buying these. The weapon itself has great ergonomics but it has the most god awful trigger on earth. Seriously, a Taurus G2C feels like a Canik Salient trigger compared to these awful things. However I am curious to try SCCY's new striker fired weapon. RIA revolvers in DA have a better trigger.
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The new SCCY DVG is much more improved
Far lighter trigger pull, better features
Well worth the money
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What's with the scratches on the slide and the plastic worn away from the slide release lever? "Where am I going to get a sample for this article. Oh, I know, I'll just look around the gravel parking lot outside the local dive nightclub and find one somebody threw away after the shootout at 2am. Just run over by a few of the escaping vehicles, good as new!"
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I have some variant of SCCY like this as a truck gun. I don't like the way it feels in the hand -- the grip is just a weird length and depth for me -- and it's not pleasant to shoot. That said, I've never had a malfunction with it. It is purely a defensive weapon; it just needs to function properly.

To be fair, before I even ran a single round through it I stripped it, cleaned it, and polished the feed ramp and sliding surfaces.
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brandonsmash wrote: May 11th, 2022, 6:30 am I have some variant of SCCY like this as a truck gun. I don't like the way it feels in the hand -- the grip is just a weird length and depth for me -- and it's not pleasant to shoot. That said, I've never had a malfunction with it. It is purely a defensive weapon; it just needs to function properly.

To be fair, before I even ran a single round through it I stripped it, cleaned it, and polished the feed ramp and sliding surfaces.
I felt the same on the recoil, the 9mm bangs the shizz outta my hand...When it came out in .380, it was much more pleasant to shoot.
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Just my opinion but shouldn't you be totally comfortable with your EDC and self defense weapons? If I didn't like shooting one specific weapon I doubt I would want to rely on it to save my life.
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SupportTheSecond wrote: May 11th, 2022, 9:56 am Just my opinion but shouldn't you be totally comfortable with your EDC and self defense weapons? If I didn't like shooting one specific weapon I doubt I would want to rely on it to save my life.
^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^
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I don't carry it (this gun lives in the truck, and I have other handguns set up for on-person carry) so comfort in a holster isn't paramount to me. It's not an amazing fit to my hand but the controls are intuitive and I can readily put it on target quickly and repeatedly. It's very much function over form for this one.

If in the unlikely situation I would have to actually use a firearm for defense, "pleasant to hold" wouldn't be something I'm thinking about: It's just about using the weapon and putting rounds where they need to be.
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