You may have noticed that we’re starting to see more and more pistols available with compensators already installed.
Certainly, Springfield Armory made waves with their release of a few models with compensators including their Hellcat RDP which came with a compensator installed on shipping. With an MSRP of $983 for the Hellcat RDP, though, that was a bit out of budget for some folks.
Fortunately, though, another company recently announced that they will be releasing a new model of one of their pistols with compensation built in that is more budget friendly. Graham Bates gives us the details:
If [you] are already familiar with the MC9 line of Caniks you can think of the MC9 Prime as an MC9L blended with the Rival and TTI Combat. Traction is enhanced and over a wider area, the slide has the sex appeal of the Rival, and the barrel and slide have been ported using a smart solution to some of the dangers of porting.
Typically, when barrels are ported the user then has to carefully avoid plated ammunition or risk the ports shaving off pieces of jacket which are then projected out the port in random directions, sometimes towards the shooter. To solve this Canik smartly did not rifle the section of the barrel where the ports are. By looking down the barrel you can see that not only does the rifling end, but the inner diameter is slightly larger near the port, allowing the bullet to safely pass by without contacting the ports. This does mean we won’t see the full velocity of the barrel length, but we wouldn’t with ports anyways.
In other words, Canik has gone out of their way to avoid complaints that some people have had with compensators.
You can see this pistol in action in the video below.
If you watched the video, you know that this pistol can put bullets down range quickly if you need it to. As Baates noted, “To me the MC9 Prime feels like a competition gun shrunken to carry size.”
And Canik has also, in what is becoming typical fashion for them, found ways to make this pistol more cost effective for the average gun owner, while, in a first for Canik, they’ve done that with a pistol made in America, which will be important to some folks.
The MSRP for this 17+1 round carry pistol with built in compensator? According to one source, the MSRP will be $649.
No kidding.
And they’ll be offering an option to get this pistol with an optic pre-installed for about $100-$150 more from what I’m hearing.
Which means that the street price will be a steal for this pistol.
So, if you’re in the market for a carry pistol with built in compensation (that will also shoot fast), the Canik MC9 Prime may be a pistol to consider.
