If you’re in the market for a two pound boat anchor of a pistol, chambered in an obsolete caliber, that uses hard to find magazines and costs over twice as much as a serious pistol, Vltor can hook only 700 of you up, so get your order in!
I’m amused at the guy who wonders if the Tanfoglio / EAA Witness 10mm is any competition for it. Not really, since a) the Tanfoglio Witness is a wretched lump of suck and fail, and b) EAA’s idea of customer service involves strap-ons and KY. Vltor might actually return your calls if yours doesn’t run.
IMHO, if you’re paying less than $1200 for an all-steel, low production, boutique pistol, you’re probably not paying enough and your experience will mirror that.
Grant | 21-Jan-10 at 12:16 pm | Permalink
“the Tanfoglio Witness is a wretched lump of suck and fail”
Which is different than the Bren Ten…how, exactly?
pdb | 21-Jan-10 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
Touche!
My opinion of Vltor is high enough that I think they can get it to work right this time around.
And even if they don’t, I suspect that most of these will be shot a bit, live in a safe, and never get carried… So it’s not like it matters.
Tam | 21-Jan-10 at 10:14 pm | Permalink
Having handled and fired a couple of the Dornaus & Dixon originals, which were indeed wretched, pulsating balls of fuck, I have no idea how this particular sword got stuck in the stone in the first place.
Sigivald | 22-Jan-10 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
My Witness is fine… but it’s in a sane caliber, 9mm.
I presume “wretched lump of suck and fail” refers to the 10mm variant?
pdb | 22-Jan-10 at 8:38 pm | Permalink
Your Witness may work fine, and a random sample of one may also work fine, but based on what I hear from pistol action competitors, firearm trainers, and gunshop clerks in charge of warranty returns, and my own sorry experience, that is not the way to bet.
I’m willing to pay for a gun I don’t have to worry about.
Caleb | 22-Jan-10 at 10:40 pm | Permalink
There is a reason that you don’t see a lot of Tanfoglio guns on the US competition circuit.