hey guys Dustin here and today we have the canik tp9 elite combat now I've been
playing with this thing for a few months now because anything I shoot I'd like to
bring it to you you know after shooting a couple hundred or if not over a
thousand rounds to it and this is one of those and so I've gotten a good look at
it and I wanted to play with it first off because I had some friends tell me
just go get that can I get that cannon I remember it handling it years ago and I
thought it was a Walther because if you look at the back there it looks exactly
like a Walther like the old at least I think the PPQ you still have that
indicator and so I was like man that's kind of cool
because I have open 99 and is one of the best factory stock triggers that that
there is and so the Canik has a great trigger as well but they're also
affordable and so I asked Canik to send me one and they sent me the
top-of-the-line what I was expecting just the the low you know everyday man
there they're ones that run under 400 bucks but we got this and I'm glad I did
because there's just a lot of neat features and so we'll go over that real
quick and then we'll shut up and shoot now starting at the bottom they did a
lot with salient arms and so you have a sanely arm a mag wheel right here and
now it's it kind of crunches a grip a little bit as I guess if you're for
comfort level it's a little much take it off and it feels like my hand fits on it
better but it's a lot like they're taking a Glock 19 size grip I got put
my Glock in front of it because so you can see the Glocks just actually a touch
smaller but not much at all and now I had to do undercut on this Glock but so
your hand fits well and while I shoot it it's fine but just and then you got the
mag well of course but you know it's just handling it it feels a little
crowded but it works you have the extended and interchangeable we could
say mag buttons right here and of course it's gonna be ambidextrous
so you have different sizes this is the medium right here it worked and it came
on it like that so I was just gonna roll with
the trigger that's where I really love it and you can tell just by the nice
flat trigger right there that it's it hopefully it shoots as good as it looks
right and it does and when I was measuring it it came in about four and a
half pounds which was great because well that got a 19 the only thing stuck on
this anymore is the trigger six pounds 10 ounces of four pounds and five ounces
is excellent and the just the take-up and the travel is just amazing and
something that you really will never need a custom job on because it kind of
already comes it so you've got some take-up right there we're gonna get a
little bit more like kind of like a two-stage thing and then ice click break
okay at four and a half pounds and then watch that reset there that was a reset
and so amazing job on a stock trigger I'm all about that so the first upgrade
I tell anyone is upgraded sugar so you can shoot the gun better and this one
comes just like that now if you notice I was pulling on this it actually has a
slide charging handle the of course it's removable and it only works if you're
using the optics plate so but I like it I just cuz I got a lot of times I'll
karate chop the the RMR or something anyway and so that just gives me
something to hold on to now in a holster it will evolve the one that they can
supply it with it still fits but of course you know it this is more of
openness slash competition type thing most guys are not going to be using that
for ok especially concealed carry that's gonna dig right in ya that's stupid but
you have it now on optics mounts it's kind of a it's ready to go
ok so of course I threw the RMR on here it has a plate for that if it in the
opted it will fit the Votrex I mean the vortex the Trijicon of course dr.
SeeMore Leupold and shield and a in a typo in here Jpoint
unless it is supposed to be an "and"- pretty sure supposed to be an "and" about its ant
okay your instruction manual translated from Turkish I suppose because it's from
Century Arms
so you have these four interchangeable bases that you can put in and even your
sight system your rear sight is a base itself the base and cover so you will
not have back up sights if you remove this to put your bases on now these are
kind of cheapy because if you look real close there what you see is that that's
actually a helicoidal system so I guess that's just the cheaper way to
manufacture it they can change the thread pitches and just put a helical in
instead of threading or maybe it's just that this aluminum of course would not
hold a hold a good thread that's probably really it but my problem was
all of the screws that came in my case there's just a few of them okay so it
was like four there and when I put my armoire on nothing fit the thread
pitches were wrong and in the manual that says only use the screws that come
with the gun so not the screws that come with your optic and so I was looking at
this I'm like man there's nothing right I emailed back and forth through Century
Arms three times and they said yeah that's all the screws right there and I
sent my picture of my box I said okay these won't work is there different
sizes and that they're not the tapered the ones they told me to use and then
the tapered ones I said you need to use these they just slide right in now okay
so customer service mmm not so much I expected them to say hey looks like we
might be you might be missing some screws I'm gonna send you a whole set
they did not do that good thing is some of the screws that
were already in my arm our box fit this mount so disaster averted
because the problem with my my sights okay they're adjustable this again this
is a salient arm sights you have a nice fiber-optic front as well as it were
just replaceable of fiber optics that come with it
there's no elevation adjustment there's just a windage adjustment and then for
the windage adjustment you can see all those scratch marks on my base right
there because I took the screws out and I whacked and whacks and whacked and
whacked with a brass hammer trying to get it to move over even took it off
some of the the seracote finish on the pistol itself trying to get the windage
to adjust and never got it to adjust but even then my elevation will take off the
site in a second and show yeah my elevation was like six inches
high and that's unadjusted so that part was not cool
but everything else about the pistol has run great the only malfunctions I've
gotten our suppressor induced it so if you know it's suppressors one and make
it really dirty too it will it get sluggish if it's if it's not oiled
correctly and so I started to get some of these not returned to battery and
well it's gonna be just fine now I lubed it up again and I'd have to push in on
this side the side charging handles that was actually kind of cool that I could
use just without breaking grip just push that forward
that's the suppressor issue if I would have taken it off which it comes
threaded but it's backwards backwards is left-handed that thirteen and a half or
thirteen thread pitch so so while you're saving money to get you you know you
don't have to buy aftermarket barrel that would be threaded because this is
it's got some flat flutes on it kind of cool is salient arms part as well and it
has a really cool the thread protector because it's got the hex parts on is
like that that looks nice I had to buy a new piston for my my revolution anyway
so you know it's kind of mysterious I did see come with the standard half by
28 right-handed threads so maybe this one will be modified in the future as
well I am running this Veridian x5l camera and laser and light on it and
it's really cool running it in tandem with the RMR because I can see with one
eye okay look my my right eye sees the red dot my left eye sees the green and
it overlays on the target pretty cool and especially at night it's a lot of
fun and it's got the light and all that well the lights not too bright but the
camera is pretty cool I think that is Oh magazines 15-round magazine and a 18
round with the extended and then finally one more complaint oh it comes with the
back straps you know that's the normal kind of stuff pistols now they come with
everything in the box that's important besides brushes and locks this is their
holster and if you look hard it looks a lot like a circle but it's almost worse
than a surfer because surprised you're pushing pressure with your trigger
trigger finger and that can make an unsafe situation what happens is you
have to pull this to unlock you're unlock the holster retention so
when you are pulling this and drawing your holster at the same time that is a
terrible and unsafe situation because you're putting pressure on that and you
have to cook because you have to be pushing pressure you can't release
because the guns starting to come up so if you're doing this in a speed
situation it is very likely that you might fall into your trigger well early
and set that gun off so know just is it's great that it comes with a holster
but it's a terrible design for safety wise in my opinion unless you're gonna
run it with a chamber empty so that's enough now shut up and shoot so to start
with accuracy test we're gonna start at 10 yards and I was like I had to get my
rangefinder because I was like this just feels way too close so anyway I got the
laser on maybe it'll come on camera the green laser is quite nice and bright but
Oh any wipe that rmr is getting the suppressor blow get that gets bad on
these things we're just gonna go for that gnome target hey let's shoot them
in the head let's do that see how close I was II rose this is the Angel Fire 147
yessum yeah all right I think we did pretty good on him so 10 yards kind of
rapid-fire hey one spotter I like it
yeah all right so right on that guy right there there's a one of those T
hostage heads so even smaller but I figured man our other group looks so
good we can try to get that a good bit don't worry there is more berm behind it
then you can see on camera because the angles all different so I got a lot of
Byrne behind me all right set up a shoot
okay that's pretty great so just just I'm having fun with the accuracy of this
thing Oh what else can we do I guess we could back up right we have our primo
targets plate rack right there well let's just say waking up 50 yards so is
still the angel fire 147 I'm getting to the bottom of the box though so this
will be the only take let's turn the camera on even though I can't see the
laser oh I can't see it oh oh there was one of those malfunctions that just the
suppressors making it sluggish but that's you can't blame that on the gun
because it almost it does that almost every gun sometimes
I was robbed that's we're just not falling I wonder
if I'm low yeah that was a Miss no nice how do I got left - oh I got plates down
those got it sweet so I wanted to put the rear sight back on just to show you
how far off it was and so we're gonna print that on paper or steel I picked up
some of these samples the other day look at that voila and they're eco-friendly
because sharp and we have our target stick that sucks
see how we do I'm already missing my slide judging hint oh I got used to that
way too quick all right same ammo 147-grain angel fire oh I brought some
115 - we'll do that right after this all right just go in dead center and we'll
see how high it was it's been a while since I've shot it with the irons all
right so we are shooting a lot closer than I was playing around earlier cuz
you know ten yards is real close for me but so we're about two inches high
though and that's holding with the front sight cutting that X in half so sure six
o'clock cold would have dropped it a little but not enough I mean I'd have to
aim here to hit there so at 10 yards that's pretty crazy hold a stick these
on and we will try with some 115 grains and see what that looks like
all right now fire 115 I keep these for defensive training because they have a
little more recoil and when I'm doing defensive training you don't need
subsonic for a suppressor alright I'll see how they work
all right so it looked like oh yeah well that confirms it is mostly shooting just
as high when we dissenter punch start of patch one of those went way right and
one was here maybe I slapped it no no but for the majority our three were in
the same height maybe just a half inch lower overall so that doesn't seem like
a huge deal but when I'm used to shooting you know 30-plus yards with
pistols okay I know I just I just goof off a lot but you know when I'm when I'm
that far back I have to aim six to eight inches low so me not so much but I'm
glad the tree treated a good job and held that target up right well we'll
just stop right here guys so um canik tp9 combat elite but there's a lot of
other ones that are really just more basic but they're stinking affordable
because you're talking they start out like under 400 bucks if memory serves
right the website had this list at at 850 all right under 850 that's the
retail I went to Big Daddy unlimited and it's closer to 600 so of course you can
sign up there Big Daddy unlimited calm slash top shot dust in that helps me out
too if you're wanting a high higher open slash fun competition gun but don't want
to pay a bunch of money this is reminds me of years back when FN
Evan came out with their FNX tactical it has like almost the same boxing kit okay
with all the optics mounting and threaded barrel and just ready to rock
but for half the price and so anyway y'all can check it out I'm just gonna
shut up there thanks for watching and stay tuned we'll have some more stuff
later
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