Lot’s of drama. Staccato dropped some dealers, some dealers dropped them before that, various claiming their QC has become problematic and quality/reliability dropped, etc. Have they gotten over their skis with popularity and attempts to keep up with demand or just normal growth patterns and hate for a popular brand? Seems to me, 99 out f 100 times, when a private equity firm enters the mix, it’s all down hill for a company as they drain the value out of it like a $2 street walker… I have no personal experiences. Seems a good summary:
But even with their warrantee, apparently if you have a malfunction and send the gun to them they will charge you $150 if they cannot recreate the malfunction before sending it back to you.
To me, the slight edge in shootability with this new generation of double stack 1911 types isn’t worth the maintenance, expense & reliability tradeoff.
Extended warranties have always been a great $ making scam for many an industry, that’s the first I have seen a firearms company do it. If people are willing to pay it, well, free market and all that. As the man said “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Even before this Staccato was dumb money. Ben Stoeger wisely pointed out that Staccato is a decent gun, but you’re paying for their advertising overhead. The whole 2011 thing just isn’t worth the ass ache. It certainly is the fad of the century however.
I remember the Para frames back in the ‘90s. I had a pistol instructor back in ‘94, who was an LEO who worked UC alot. His sidearm was a Colt Officers Model paired with a Para double stack frame, 13 rounder.
Seemed supremely badass at the time.
Then STI came along, and now everybody’s in on the 2011 thing. That’s cool for folks who want that.
Me, I’m far too poor to have “fun guns” in the battery…..all our pistols & rifles are “working guns”, serving a practical use. So they need to work, have commonality of parts, ammo, holsters, mags, etc.etc. Centralized ecosystem.
Fun guns screw up my real guns shooting habits. I have a Prodigy 5” gun that we got to run. It’s enjoyable to shoot, but it fucks up my G22/G35 grip angle shooting badly.
In fairness the Prodigy has the correct grip angle (natural point of aim). But so what? It’s a range toy in a weak caliber and when I go back to a duty/carry Glock, my POI is too high again and I have to rebuild my grip habit.
If I owned one of “this”, or one of “that”, I’d shoot them some, but would that be detrimental, of they’re a different system than the Glocks I normally shoot & carry? Sure could be.
It’s why I laugh at guys with a diverse “carry rotation”. Seems stupid.
Ayoob has written about this, and said he does change gun types quarterly or so, but ONLY to maintain proficiency with the variety of guns that showed up in his classes, otherwise he’d have chosen one platform and stuck with it.
And the issue is only extra critical with the proliferation of red dot sights. I’ve always noticed that the Glock grip angle was bad for me. Even with irons. But with irons I can see the front sight is to high and start correcting it as I get on target.
When you lose the dot, a certain level of panic ensues. Sticking to Glock only helps me minimize this issue with my dot sights. That and a big ass 507 Comp on the slide.
When I had my Glock slide made I got supressor sights so the dot and front sight co-wittness. You dont lose anything you look for the front sight and there is the dot.
The thing I’ve found that I like best is a set of irons that you can barely pick up in the bottom of the window. I have one G35 with tall irons and it gets a little cluttered.
With a dot you’re to be 100% target focused, but i can periferally pick up the front sight as an index to make sure I’m presenting the pistol correctly.
I’ve not yet tried a rear sight in front of the optic. But I find that psychologically I’m more pleased with as uncluttered a dot pic as possible. I would never go so far as to take off the irons like some guys do.
Also why I stay single-action single-stack. Too much to have to unlearn and relearn, rewiring new muscle-memory… I been riding this horse my entire life might as well stay on it til the end of the race.
Placing the sight in front of the optic provides the most uncluttered view possible (especially in awkward positions) yet still provides BUIS in the true backup position to the primary sighting system as well as providing protection to the lens during single hand racking against objects.
