Originally posted by RHINOWSO: Answer is - "How do you to turn a $400 firearms into a $500 gun that costs you $1500, Bob"
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Perfect for the new owner to take to the range once a year, jerk the hell out of the trigger, and then complain that their high-end custom P320 doesn't shoot for shit and groups like a shotgun.
Looks ridiculous. Cost is ridiculous. I doubt it shoots a 1/4" tighter than any other P320.
The P320 Legion is still the best deal going, if one wants a lot of features, in the P320 line. If not, there are plenty of ways to customize without going overboard, but they shoot just fine out of the box.
They're not tack drivers, and charging a lot more won't make them tack drivers, either.
One might as well have the head of their garden shovel scroll engraved.
The minimum age for purchasing a pistol is 21. That's a clue, right there. I would expect this type of waste to attract younger, inexperienced gun owners.
Why do outfits keep putting holes in slides? What is the fascination with crud-collection ports?
Zev does say on their site that this pistol is known to the state of California to cause cancer, so there's that.
Why no warnings that it hurts unprotected ears, or could hurt bare toes, if dropped?
They did laser texture an x-grip, and the barrel looks like a golf ball, plus it's got the cool fiber optic front sight which is all the rage now (disclaimer: I have several P320's with Dawson fiber fronts), and a genuine thirty dollar sig stock flat face trigger. Fourteen hundred bucks worth. All that, and a place to stick an all-the-cool-kids-got-one red dot battery operated sight, too. Of course, one would have to swap out the awesome fiber optic zev sight...
I'll take two. Then again, for that price, I could buy six P320's. Hmmm...or, I could spend that money on reloading and shooting 22,000 rounds. I wonder if the Zev pistol would instantly make me better than taking the time to train with the 22,000 rounds?
Originally posted by parabellum: It's all about appearance...
Yep. I predict that will see a thread on SF on this pistol, by its new owner. The thread might go something like, "it's been flawless, except for the occasional cycling issues."
We may see the thread in a few weeks. Maybe a few months. But I will bet it's coming.
Posts: 7867 | Location: Colorado | Registered: January 26, 2008
Ugly, way to expensive and probably unreliable. I've read several threads in regards to owners having lots of different issues with ZEV Glock guns. People must like the ZEV guns because when the local shop gets a used one in they don't last long before someone comes along and snaps them up.
Posts: 1627 | Location: USA | Registered: December 11, 2005
Probably the thing I hate most about Zev is they bought out Mega and killed all the great stuff they were doing with AR15s and instead 'Zev-ed' all of it.
Although I've seen new Mega Forged lowers lately, so maybe someone at Zev got a clue that people liked things they way they were...
I bought a ZEV slide for my Glock once. I wanted an RMR mount... That and the new slide was on a Black Friday sale and I got it for $40.
Posts: 9144 | Location: Somewhere looking for ammo that nobody has at a place I haven't been to for a pistol I couldn't live without... | Registered: December 02, 2014
Originally posted by limblessbiff: And I bet it’s not drop safe
It's mostly Sig components, and I doubt the slide or barrel will make it less reliable.
I'm sure it will shoot as well as any P320, though I doubt it will shoot better. Much like the slightly less expensive, recently introduced Wilson Sigs.
I've no doubt either, that some of the components might be worthwhile upgrades for those who want to invest in them. The barrel may offer something. Perhaps the frame is more grippy; it looks like it would probably stay in the hand nicely. With everyone covering grips in skateboard tape, a velcro pistol might be exactly what people want.
Wilson grip modules are a great product, I think. I can't see paying four hundred bucks for a Zev slide to get an optic cut when I can get one custom cut to my choice of optics for a hundred fifty bucks. That's just me, though. I also don't want a lot of gold and color and flash on a handgun, but I don't buy them as show-and-tell pieces. Some certainly do. The fourteen hundred dollar pistol will probably appeal to them.
