There’s a Norse proverb that says one should not praise ale until it has been drunk, ice until it has been crossed … or a sword until it has been tested. This maxim comes to mind especially when the “sword” in question is a weapon that’s an entirely new reboot of a classic design.
It wasn’t all that long ago that a large firearms company with a respectable name (one that rhymed with “Remington”) decided to reboot a classic design they’d initially offered nearly a century ago, the Model 51. The test guns handed to media at the launch event ran … er, the internet term is “flawlessly” … and the writers dispersed home to type up their experiences. When production pistols hit consumers’ hands, though, the wheels fell off the wagon.
Production pistols didn’t run like the pre-production guns, especially when exposed to the variety of ammo that might wind up getting used by the general shooting public. Lots of establishment gun media wound up with egg on their faces over the
