Astounding!!!
An Englishman who didn't read the entire article that was written in...wait for it...English!!!:tongueout:
The article featured the MTX which is hammer fired, and the author made a mention about the upcoming STX which is striker fired.
:supergrin: You got me! Well kind of.
The title of the article is
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Bruce Siddle About The Detonics STX: A Striker-Fired 1911/Hi Power Hybrid
and then the first picture is of something else but it doesn't tell us that. Then the second picture is even uglier because it looks like the first but longer and has the enormous safety removed but still keeps the huge scallops in the frame for it. It still has the enormous beaver tail which should be unnecessary in striker fired pistol and leaves the obvious assumption that it is hammer fired by a hammer without a tang.
Then we struggle through the text which is mainly the spoken words of some kind of Detonics executive. This is in a kind of English which is painful in style and almost empty of content. It claims scientific research into human ergonomics and performance under the stress of a gunfight but gives little clue to its findings beyond the assumptions that the 1911 and Hi Power are great designs. Boredom had set in by half way down the first page and by the end of the page there was no incentive to look for a second.
Now that I have read the whole of the article, with an open mind as always:upeyes:, my first page opinion has not changed except for realizing that it really is a striker fired pistol where they have not optimized the design for a striker fired pistol.
Siddle claims that there are no sharp corners or edges but in fact the scallops for the not present safety leave an abrupt sharp edged transition of the back strap into the beaver tail. For a striker fired pistol it has a huge bore axis to web of hand distance and there is no way in which that is compatible with Siddle's claimed minimal muzzle flip. Never mind - it is modular. That means they can use incompatible bits fastened together to make a pistol and that is what they have done. Sidle claims that they wanted the short crisp trigger action of the 1911 and also says that they wanted a pistol without a (thumb operated) safety. Those two things are incompatible.
Detonics has an honorable history of making small 1911 style autos. I don't know whether they have been taken over by someone who has no knowledge of combat shooting or if they are so blinkered towards the 1911 design that they cannot understand the benefits of a properly designed striker fired pistol. If they have really done four years research on this project it has been wasted effort.
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