yes that's beautiful
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hahaha all right guys today we have the Canik Rival S we also have the polymer rival version
so we're going to compare them hand in hand and I'll tell you what I like and then you
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thank you all right guys the Canik rival S s meaning
for steel we also have the polymer version right here and I'll be honest I got the polymer
version a few months ago and I just couldn't get into it that much because I already have
the sfx uh we have a video in the past on the sfx and the sft and I love the sfx I ended
up carrying it all hunting season and go check out any of my videos you'll probably see it
on my hip this rival uh the sfx Rival this is their dark side it uh the trigger wasn't
quite as good as the sfx and it may just be that I got a bum one got great little take
up and then it just had just a touch of mush Just a Touch it's still a good trigger but
it wasn't as good as my regular sfx maybe I needed to break it in not sure so this still
showed up the other day though and I was like oh yes because the what I always Rave about
mechanics is the amazing trigger it says this 90 degree aluminum trigger and we'll just
go ahead and get right into it okay okay there's our safety there's our take up and then there's
the break and there's no creep and it's like it should be so maybe I just got a bum one
with that dark side rival but this one was great and at first I just kept just caressing
it honestly because that Chrome steel is just so smooth and Sleek compared to what we're
always used to with some other guns it was just machined and finished and Polished so
well it was just fun to just hold this is what we would always strive for in the competition
world and you know I've got a XDM that I had souped up which the souping up is going to
cost more than the gun itself for sure at a Glock 34 that was trash that we had to soup
up and it goes on well the cool thing is the Canon rival s is really well everything you're
striving for for a competition gun but you just won and done buy it and you have it and
it's good you don't have to do anything to it in fact this thing comes with such a huge
accessory box I think it's six Optics mounts a good set of iron sights adjustable fiber
optic also co-witness mounts for certain uh more compact red dots that you can so you
can still have your rear sight and go with them and you can see my little charging handle
there that's an option that goes on to the optic Mount itself I like it because I end
up grabbing my optic just because it's there and it's easy to grab coming in over 40 ounces
so so here's the deal though if I had to choose between them both it's not on the draw I'm
like oh this is so much lighter uh if I was doing kind of a multi-purpose Like Home Defense
some tactical classes and uh some competition on the side I might still go with the polymer
but boy just for range day fun and uh if you're going pure competition You're Gonna Want to
steal because of that extra weight it makes it a smooth shooter and when you're talking
a 40 ounce pistol with just a nine millimeter a light and slide and all that it's nice and
it's fun you got all the regular Canik things you know the first thing I did was put on
their Magwell funnel just because I like it and it makes it nice and easy to go home but
here's something else so if we can show inside I'm not sure I may have to open the slide
maybe that'll help what I noticed was you have all these uh lightened cuts inside the
frame itself but that also makes it as well as the polished steel so Stupid Fast to slide
a MAG in with no drag at all we've got a primary arms uh just basic optic on here is a 3moa
you have your lightning cut some very aggressive aggressive uh grooves for charging a fluted
as a guess a barrel there and then on both sides the the pistol is very ambidextrous
you've got these bolted on see it's not a takedown lever your takedown levers here and
of course your side stop but this little panel is just kind of a race gun grip for that thumbs
forward you can you can just grab it and grip it and it yeah it just runs so that's enough
talking about it let's run it foreign
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I guess I'm used to other guns so when I pick this one up and start shooting right off the
gate I'm like wow uh it's just flat it's flat so let's shoot the polymer version and see
if yeah what we feel the difference is so the polymer version with the mechanic optic
that is canix you know their own little red dot sight let's see what happens
Rises so much more and I actually feel it a little bit in my hand you know it's just
a nine normally you just go with it but the contrast is crazy
I mean it works and it's still decent but man the steel one and I wasn't all about the
hype you know Walther came out there Q5 whatever steel and I'm like cool it's metal and it's
heavy but it took my hands to getting on the gun while that holster retention is tight
anyway to really appreciate this deal but we're gonna keep having fun we're gonna try
some recoil comparisons we have this 80 grain plus p from Fort Scott and I figured oh that
may be a good one to see how uh the steel recoils compared to the just regular rival
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and being a solid copper CNC lathe bullet it's got to be accurate so we're at 15 yards
we have that made Target silhouette right there let's just put five on and see see what
we're doing we're just gonna we never do this real slow stuff
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I kind of expected a little better let's go look one two three four five right there my
point of aim was right here so yeah we got a little bit of creep to the right but it
works this is dumb but we're gonna do it anyway since we have this 80 grain plus P I'm like
can we hit a Target at 200 yards so we put a camera out there we put a Firebird in the
middle if I hit dead center on that two inch Firebird I get a prize the Boom is the prize
all right 200 yards I'm gonna give it about five six feet
all right going again
come on I want a boom [Applause]
oh I got it again that's 200 yards
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got it I think I knocked the firebird off because it doesn't look like it has a black
dot anymore it could just be swinging though see how many rounds we got left
[Applause] that is cool okay and yes the rig this is the KopfJaeger Reaper rail of course
it's usually made for rifles but if it's got a rail on it why not let's go see our group
I was so close so I think that was the second hit you can see I damaged the firebird Target
right on the edge and it didn't didn't blow it if those had been lead bullets it probably
would have fragged but these these copper bullets stay together so much anyway we got
four rounds On Target if I emptied that mag I think I had 12 in it so large but [Music]
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well that's fun
all right oh it's warm too so I can hold it down here I guess that's it for the Rival
s s for a mechanic the only thing I would change just because I was messing with my
vp9 the other day is the ergonomics of that vp9 it's like it was molded in clay if can
it could incorporate some of that on their next model because I know they just keep coming
out with better and better models uh it'd be pretty awesome because the trigger rocks
the steel is awesome and it runs great and it's also plenty accurate so I think the it
retails around 8.99 for that whole package but you know we're talking a holster and everything
that comes with that so it's a pretty neat thing to jump into if you're wanting in the
competition Market or just want a neat fun plinker that can do a lot of stuff you can
go check it out thanks for stopping by today guys okayIloveyou bye-bye
thank you
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did you see that I came in like a wrecking ball
oh perfect