Hmmm.
Announce 2019. Appear 2022.
They were just on Sig time.

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Well I can say I would buy this at 2000 dollars over a 1500 dollar Prodigy. I have a CZ/Dan Wesson bias because I love their stuff. Especially DW.

I find the chassis system interesting. I’m no engineer but that sounds to me like the potential to make polymer 2011 style grip modules and that is a direct competition to Staccato. Maybe I’m reading that wrong but I don’t think so. Lots of potential growth there.

I will get one. Probably a Compact when they come out or I will wait for the optics cut full-size version.

This is a win. A delayed win but a win.

Exactly!

I'll be a buyer when they release the Compact version (already previously announced at its inception alongside the now-available full sized model) with an optics cut.

An accent color other than red would be nice too.

I'm admittedly a Dan Wesson fan owning 4 at present. What really appeals to me here is that it has a 1911 trigger that I can swap in a short one for. The CZ75 was always just a reach too far with its trigger and my trigger finger. I figure this set up fixes that.

But with only 150 released at this time, acquiring one seems rather problematic. At least they're talking other variants in 2023.

And yeah the naysayers were sure quick to condemn DW for delays despite their having to deal with the pandemic, supply chain, and NY State idiots

Might be the first real improvement in handguns in a long time.

If a frame mounted optic works, great.

Not a huge fan of the caliber, unless it can handle 9 major.

Slap laser grips on it, and it could make an excellent night stand gun.

I bought a P2000SK today used for 574. Felt like a decent price. While I was there they had the DWX in the case. While I was waiting for NICS I handled it and talked to the salesman.

If it can’t handle 9 major I will eat my hat. This is a beefy gun. It was fantastic in the hand. It felt like the grip of a Shadow 2 which I absolutely love. Safety, both sides, was crisp and well shaped. If you like 1911 ambi safeties you will like this. Good sights. Tiny fiber optic rod up front made for a great sight picture. Wasn’t a huge fan of the extended mag release. I prefer the adjustable Shadow version.

The trigger. Oh man, it was perfect. You might like it lighter but that is a personal thing. It was crisp, no creep, no overtravel, great reset audible and tactile. It is a custom trigger right out of the box. It was that good. If I wasn’t already buying something I might have bought it.

It was selling for MSRP 2099.00.

In that gun I will wait for the optics ready version because I don’t want to buy 2 of them. (In actuality I do but alas that is a bad idea).

This gun was worth the wait.

I like that its not an aluminum frame. Couple of my own qwerky observations. I like the pistol over all but doubt I will ever own a new one. I cant get used to fiber optic sights as I've zero experience shooting them. True black irons are for me. Almost anything Novak I dislike. Some Novak sight cuts hog a huge section of a slide away. This guns rear at least looks windage adjustable. Every pistol I see with a full length slide and frame is supposed to have some darn slide/frame rails. These seem so short to me. The thing I do think is pretty slick is its barrel muzzle end. Awful like a 7.65 P220 barrel. Over all this new DW is a nice pistol.

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Originally posted by bald1:

But with only 150 released at this time, acquiring one seems rather problematic. At least they're talking other variants in 2023.

There are quite a few more than 150 that have been shipped. Where did you hear 150? That's wrong

Looking forward to the non-rail Compact version being released, even though that particular model will have an aluminum frame. Not sure why the reviewers such as Recoilweb drone on about how the full size isn't carry worthy, when the gun was announced years ago alongside the Compact version (which obviously fills that role).

I'm also not a fan of waffle grip patterns, which the Compact is supposed to have... if I had my druthers, the DW Mastershop or CZC would make a special edition steel frame, non-rail compact model with the checkered grip.

We don't know if that will carry over. The other wonky thing about the old Compact was it used CZ 75 Compact mags that won't work in the full size.

And the grip panels are standard CZ. Find the ones you want and put them on.

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If it can’t handle 9 major I will eat my hat.

Might do, but why should it?
Going to build it out into an Open gun?

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Originally posted by alptraum:

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Originally posted by bald1:

But with only 150 released at this time, acquiring one seems rather problematic. At least they're talking other variants in 2023.

There are quite a few more than 150 that have been shipped. Where did you hear 150? That's wrong

Glad to know I'm wrong. Picked up that tidbit from one of the YouTube videos. https://youtu.be/kRBK51RYQ7A

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Originally posted by Jim Watson:

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If it can’t handle 9 major I will eat my hat.

Might do, but why should it?
Going to build it out into an Open gun?

I think this was directed at me. I’m not going to build it out to do anything. I’m pretty sure I said I was waiting on the Compact and OR version. As for 9 major, that’s just hot loaded 9 right? This is a beefy all steel gun. Why the fuck wouldn’t it handle it? No manufacturer is going to say it’s ok since it’s basically a round without real definition. Either way I was just responding to a comment.

Anyone see the DWX taken apart? From what I understand, while the pistol uses the 1911 trigger mechanism, the DWX has a proprietary trigger bow. I'm curious how its bow differs from that of a regular 1911.

This is the best of what I've found:



I'm sure that part of the delay was using a P320 style chassis system to put all of the 1911 trigger guts into to save cost and gunsmithing time. That's probably how they got this gun with fully machined parts to this price point while a MIMed up P226 X-5 is the same price with more volume over the DWX.

I'd definitely take the DWX over a high end plastic fantastic pistol. The CZ grip frame is #1 in my book, nothing else on the market feels as good in my hand. Fondled a CZ Shadow at the gun shop the other day and nearly took it home. It just wasn't milled for optics or I probably would have.

I was all excite until no OR slide. Same reason I won't buy a Walther Meister series despite wanting them badly. It's 2022...optics are the current standard even if you don't care to run them that way (I'm still not convinced but have an Acro P2 waiting)

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Originally posted by PGT:
I was all excite until no OR slide.

I was all excited until it didn't happen and didn't happen and didn't happen and...

Now I still find it interesting, but am no longer excited. I've moved on.

An OR slide could have changed that.

Here's a better one:

I had the cash in hand for this 3 years ago but have since moved on to other things. Still a nice pistol but I'm kind of glad I went another direction.