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Hellcat pro 9mm reviews

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Howdy! Can anyone with knowledge of this gun offer any input?
 
#2 ·
Just lovely. The new goldilocks sized pistols are making subcompact 1911's and Glock 19's obsolete.

I prefer the Glock 43x variety.

Grip contact, hand fit, is critical with these pistols that are obviously too small for our hands. So any opinion is subjective. Hold it before you judge it.
 
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I've got one. The trigger is OK, nothing to write home about. It's snappier than it should be for a nearly 4 inch gun. And the trigger feedback makes it genuinely suck to shoot more than 50 rounds at a time. It feels like it's flicking my finger every time I shoot it. I've put 400 rounds through mine, and tried various things to ease up how snappy the trigger is. I've come to the conclusion there's no helping it. The slide has also bitten me and caused me to bleed. I hate it. And won't carry it. But it did feed and function flawlessly.

YMMV.

I'd take a step further than saying to hold it before you judge it. Shoot a few hundred rounds through it. All of these micro pistols, and even their slightly higher capacity variants, have their quirks. Whether or not you can live with them is subjective and going to depend on shooter preference. Just holding the Hellcat Pro and manipulating it at the counter, I was happy with it. It wasn't until I got it to the range that my mind started to shift on the gun. The P365 seemed OK - until I had the opportunity to shoot it and found the mag catches the meat of my hand both ways. It sucks slamming a mag home and pinching your hand.

Obviously I can't tell you what you should or shouldn't buy. But I can tell you that I fully intend to sell the Hellcat Pro in favor of a human-sized pistol that is designed to be fired without inducing pain in the user. I want my guns to make other people bleed, not me.

Edit: Just to add a little something to the compendium of knowledge, this might help. 6 of the more prominent micro-compacts shot side by side for fairly extensive testing:

 
#4 ·
I have about 300 rounds through mine and the trigger is the weakest part of the gun’s function. Little take up -but stiff through the pull all the way to break. No surprise on the break - just relief.

No hammer bite, no slide bite, feeds and ejects every time, grip fits my hand well, grip texturing is solid but not rough.

I like the gun but have an Apex trigger kit that I haven’t installed yet. If the Apex upgrade works, I’ll keep it.
 
#5 ·
One of my two carry pistols is a 365, one with a safety. A nice pistol in many ways, even for my big hands,. I shoot it to remain "familiar" and competent with the pistol, but it is not a pistol I take to a range with several hundreds of my reloads for an enjoyable afternoon of shooting, I don't think the micro pistols are "meant" for recreation, but for duty. So if a micro pistol causes some pain or blood, that will be inconsequential if and when used for their purpose. NV
 
#6 ·
What do you want to know ? I have an Apex trigger on mine . I like it .
What info are you looking 4 ?
 
#8 · (Edited)
I love my Hellcat . I do not like the sights or feel of the 365 , The trigger on the 365 I do not
like the feel of the pull . The flat trigger on the Hellcat works better for me . The Hellcat fit
my hands better as well . I saw the video their complaint was the pistol was snappy . The
apex trigger I have made the Hellcat even better . Funny you put an optic on a pistol but
not a trigger I find that funny . Sounds like their hands did not fit the pistol . Everyone has
their thing . Reliability is also something you want out of a pistol you are relying with your
life . Which it scored high on . Also funny all these small pistols are snappy .

Oh and like Hal said running and gunning is not the purpose of these pistols were meant 4