This pistol literally made Gaston Glock get off his polymer throne in Austria, walk into the bathroom, and sob quietly in the corner of the shower. He held a cheap bottle of whiskey in his shaking hand, no longer secure in his position as designer of the world's ugliest handgun.
God I love rotating barrels. Shame the rest of it looks like ass
i didn't actually notice it was a rotating barrel, though it looks like only the chamber rotates, the barrel stays fixed.
It's a ported barrel inside a sleeve. The sleeve acts like a gas tube, directing gases from the barrel back and unlocking the chamber, which then uses the delayed recoil to cam the barrel. It's pretty cool from an engineering standing.
Smith released a video showing how it works:
i wonder WHY tho, from footage it seems like it kicks about as hard as any other 5.7. rotating barrels only help with slow-moving rounds like .45
Man I want a fucking Cougar.
According to Smith it's too improve cycling and durability issues with various loadings/ammo types.
It'll probably help with suppressor use with subsonic loads.
>various loadings/ammo types.
yeah lol, all three types of 5.7
FN alone has SS197, SS198, SS195, SS190.
Fiocchi has 35gr, 40gr, 62gr subsonic loads
Speer has their 40gr gold dot
Federal has their TMJ 40gr plinking stuff
Then there's the specialty ammo from
Elite ammunition: T6B, S4, protecTOR, DevestaTOR
Vanguard outfitters: black fang 36gr solid copper
Gotta let the engineers have a treat once in a while.
Happy engineers make for miserable mechanics
I'd rather have one in 9mm. Been tempted to get my PX4 storm cut for an optic but it is as expensive as just buying another gun.
I like how they handled the rotating barrel on this a lot more than the PX4. A suppressor doesn't make a ton of sense for a cartridge like 5.7, but if it were adapted to 9mm, it would make a bit more sense to actually have that capability.
>rotating barrels
good luck finding a suppressor that doesn't fuck up the whole system.
The slide gap is even worse than a Glock
>designer of the world's ugliest handgun.
I actually like how glocks look tbh
Don't get why people think they're hideous
Gen 4 looked better than 5
>Bought a FN Five-SeveN right before this got announced
It had always been a bucket list gun for me, but damn
Retard why the fuck would you buy an 57 when the PSA Rock exists
Because PSA makes Tyrone-moron-tier guns that are almost pawnshop level of Saturday night special quality.
No. That's a pretty excessive exaggeration.
PSA is decent at best average at worst.
You make it sound like they are 1990s Tarus tier or Jenkins tier. Which is stupid because you are either being dishonest or you are just inexperienced.
Not, he's wrong, but I still wouldn't buy the PSA 5.7 unless I was collecting 5.7 guns because the M&P is only a hundred bucks more and by every review I've seen, it's the best on the market or tied with the Ruger.
The Ruger has a trash trigger and awful optics mounting options
The Ruger is objectively worse than the Rock
I am exaggerating although PSA firearms are more questionable than even a Kek-tec product. I actually was considering either the Ruger 57 or the M&P version, probably will go with the Ruger.
PSA has shit the bed a lot with products in their first run. They're taking up the Sig business strategy of open beta testing products at full price. They're cheap as shit though, so it's not like it's worth complaining about.
this. and take criticism and make improvements much faster.
Don't buy the Ruger their autoloaders are shit
Cuz people wanna buy cool stuff that they like anon
No one likes the psa rock, they just cope about how it's better and cheaper
If I buy a gun I don't care if it's cheap, I want to like it, and I don't think I could like any PSA firearm
Seethe it's a sexy gun to hold made just up the river from me
Local guns are cool but I guess you'll never know that feeling
That's cool too I just prefer Euro guns that were in videogames/movies from when I was a kid
That is because you are a child
PSA Rock, IGNORING price, is objectively the best 5.7 handgun, with one single reason trumping every other: no thumb safety. Nevermind a beefier barrel than the rest, nevermind being the best striker trigger on the planet, nevermind clean lines and only two buttons on the side of the frame, nevermind flush-fit magazines bring higher capacity but the same size AND less than half the price of any other, nevermind fitting most glonk pattern holsters, nevermind being objectively safer than Ruger, nevermind easiest takedown, glawk pattern sights, more customizable than any other offerings. Yes it's not perfect, it struggles with suppressors and dots mounted, but it IS still the best while simultaneously being the cheapest. All this coming from an FN fanboy no less. S&W is unique, I'll give it that, I like all their guns but they still can't beat the Rock.
>PSA Rock, IGNORING price, is objectively the best 5.7 handgun, with one single reason trumping every other: no thumb safety
does the gun in the OP image have a thumb safety you BUFFOON?
no, it's got a fuck-ugly panel there instead because like most if their guns the manual safety's optional, another reason I like them. but please, stay hung up on the one thing I fucked up and continue ignoring the other twenty reasons PSA is based
Congrats, you bought a better gun.
>hey bill, where I should I put the front slide serrations on this thing? the front?
>how 'bout the middle?
>perfect.
Most front slide serrations start close to the front of the trigger guard. This gun is just half Borzoi, so it can't help but look like they put them in the middle.
shoulda just gone with 9001 serrations
i think it would look much better without the threaded barrel
When would you ever run subsonics in a 5.7? Completely defeats the purpose
Suppressors aren't the only barrel attachment
>he needs a comp for his belgian22mag
There are .22lr compensators.
I bet that high pressure and low grain weight makes 5.7 shoot like .22lr with a comp. You can probably laser a silhouette at 25 yards no problem with a compensated 5.7.
>"needs"
You don't get it
yeah as much as TFB raves that you can shoot 5.7 through a .22 can i don't really understand why they put that on by default like it is assumed you will want to suppress it. maybe just to get a little extra barrel length? the thread protector looks like the cap to a shampoo bottle or some shit.
glocks look good though
t. Honda Accord driver
Unkind. Luv me early 00's Accord and late 90's Camry. Still have both tarped in the barn back corner, ready to go.
Don't be hating on them just cause you don't like plastiq megablock pistol.
>Amplified Bible, classic edition translation
Equating a pistol to a car make/model is sort of incomplete.
This pistol literally made Gaston Glock get off his polymer throne in Austria, walk into the bathroom, and sob quietly in the corner of the shower. He held a cheap bottle of whiskey in his shaking hand, no longer secure in his position as designer of the world's ugliest handgun.
Is that a fucking Taurus? Don't make me laugh.
first of all. taurus is good now. secondly the dagger is superior to a glock
>t. work at knockoff glock factory
Is there a list of all knockoff glocks somewhere?
what is the point of a 5.7 handgun? the caliber seems so useless outside of varmint control, even then if .22 can't solve your problem, 5.56 will do you alot better for half the cost.
It's a handgun for starters. Second, 5.7 has basically no recoil so that's a nice perk. And while it doesn't do as much damage as .45, it can punch through vests. In the videos that Paul did about 5.7 handguns, he mentions that it would make a sound choice as a gun for someone who works in security protecting valuable shit because you are more likely than not (as his thinking goes) to run up against someone wearing body armor. 5.7 will defeat the armor, whereas 9mm and .45 won't.
That's a very niche thing, but it also makes it a reasonable duty weapon for people who do that sort of work.
Many bullet funny
Also pistol funny
It's a duty gun, not a civilian CC gun.
>CAUTION: CAPABLE OF FIRING WITH MAGAZINE REMOVED
Well that's one gun I'll never buy.
It looks retarded. Top's top flimsy.
>GlOcK kIlLer this time for reals
You will all cope until the end of time
Nothing in useless 5.7 has made anyone jealous
That and the Dagger too. Suddenly a major manufacturer is making improved versions of a standard glock at 2/3 the price.
Glock is a kino design tho
Concur
M-MUH .22 MAGNUM!!!!1111