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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: jarcher on February 09, 2006, 03:57:04 PM

Title: Some competition
Post by: jarcher on February 09, 2006, 03:57:04 PM

While Rohrbaugh was busy engraving their pistols, their competitors were busy designing new ones:

http://www.kel-tec.com/pf9pr.htm

KelTec released a single stack 9mm.  I think it's a little bigger than a R9, but you could buy 3 of them for the price.

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: DDGator on February 09, 2006, 05:30:07 PM

Well, I am not sure if that was intended to be sort of snide, but...

Obviously Rohrbaugh is not doing the engraving themselves.  Mostly they are focusing on improving their product.  In fact, even the new finishes and the the S&W partnership is all about improving product and increasing efficiency of production.

When one's entire production capacity is sold out for months into the future, designing a new gun isn't too high on anyone's list.

My comments on the KT are on the thread in the Other Guns forum.

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: Richard S on February 09, 2006, 08:47:27 PM

Competition?  No more than the Chevrolet Cobalt is competition for the Chevrolet Corvette, both of which will get one from Point A to Point B.  But a Corvette . . . .   8)

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: Fud on February 09, 2006, 08:52:03 PM

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While Rohrbaugh was busy engraving their pistols, their competitors were busy designing new ones:

http://www.kel-tec.com/pf9pr.htm

KelTec released a single stack 9mm.  I think it's a little bigger than a R9, but you could buy 3 of them for the price.

Sounds interesting. Will it have a repeat striker capability? If so, I'll be giving it serious consideration. If not, I'll stick with my Skyy-1 (shown on bottom right next to my R9) ...

(http://fud-files.netfirms.com/image/private/guns/f160.jpg)

Ediited to add image.

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: jarcher on February 10, 2006, 01:08:27 AM

From what I can see and read, the new 9mm KelTec functions just like the P32 and the P3AT, which means it does not have a second strike capability.

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: R9SCarry on February 10, 2006, 01:59:36 AM

I am still waiting for more info - and hopefully some actual range/shooting comments.

Title: Re: Some competition
Post by: dfsutton on February 10, 2006, 05:20:18 AM

The link isn't working for me.  I doubt that it's actually a bad link and instead I imagine it has something with being on a government computer in the Middle East.