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Every year at SHOT Show, there seems to be one product that everyone collectively decides is "The Thing" for the upcoming year. It also seems that this product very often turns out to be somewhat of a dud. In the past few years we've seen flavors of the moment at SHOT such as the Canik TP9, The Strike One and the Sphinx lines of pistols, all of which fizzled out very quickly. Except for maybe with the Military Arms Channel Guys who seem to love anything that comes from Turkey (Shrug).
Notable exceptions to this were the Glock 42 and 43, and which everyone salivated over/on and eventually bought in droves (not me, as for better or worse, I'm averse to all things single-stacked).
This year, it appears "The Thing" is going to be the Hudson Manufacturing H9 Pistol:
The long and short of this pistol design is that it's supposed to provide the user the ergonomics of a 1911 style pistol combined with an extremely low bore axis and a striker-fired system of operation.
However, in order to shorten the bore axis so drastically, Hudson had to relocate the recoil spring and associated components to forward of the trigger, making for a very odd, yet kind of futuristically-cool looking firearm.
The obvious downside to this design is that other than maybe some universal nylon rigs, there's no good option for holsters. Additionally, because of the increased distance from accessory rail to the muzzle, using lights and lasers (if you're into that sort of thing) seems like it could/would be a nightmare.
On the other hand, one could argue that at least in the case of holster availability, this is somewhat par for the course when new pistol design debuts, and that the market usually responds fairly quickly once it looks like the design will be commercially viable.
What says Calguns on this? Could this be the real deal, or are we destined to for a pop, fiz, burnout A-La the Bushmaster ACR?
PS: I know this pistol will be off-roster and not attainable for most people in CA, but that's never stopped from talking about things like this before, has it?
Notable exceptions to this were the Glock 42 and 43, and which everyone salivated over/on and eventually bought in droves (not me, as for better or worse, I'm averse to all things single-stacked).
This year, it appears "The Thing" is going to be the Hudson Manufacturing H9 Pistol:
The long and short of this pistol design is that it's supposed to provide the user the ergonomics of a 1911 style pistol combined with an extremely low bore axis and a striker-fired system of operation.
However, in order to shorten the bore axis so drastically, Hudson had to relocate the recoil spring and associated components to forward of the trigger, making for a very odd, yet kind of futuristically-cool looking firearm.
The obvious downside to this design is that other than maybe some universal nylon rigs, there's no good option for holsters. Additionally, because of the increased distance from accessory rail to the muzzle, using lights and lasers (if you're into that sort of thing) seems like it could/would be a nightmare.
On the other hand, one could argue that at least in the case of holster availability, this is somewhat par for the course when new pistol design debuts, and that the market usually responds fairly quickly once it looks like the design will be commercially viable.
What says Calguns on this? Could this be the real deal, or are we destined to for a pop, fiz, burnout A-La the Bushmaster ACR?
PS: I know this pistol will be off-roster and not attainable for most people in CA, but that's never stopped from talking about things like this before, has it?
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