![]() The more lead I sent downrange, the more Kel-Tec’s slim semi-auto fulfilled all the expectations I’d set for it over the years. Does that make the P3T a snub-nosed semi-automatic belly gun for combat distances? Sure-just as long as you don’t make make muzzle contact with your foe. For two-thirds the price of a second P3AT, Crimson Trace can help. Regarding sights (damned or otherwise), the P3AT’s merely suggest rather than pinpoint the target. Is the stock trigger a deal-breaker? Not by a damn sight. Are there better mouse-gun go buttons? Absolutely. Despite forumistas’ testimony that the P3ATs trigger has enough grit to please an 18th century miller, the current iteration makes mythical the myriad moans expressed by first-gen P3AT owners. Speaking of travel, it’s long-ish, but not the pack-your-bags journey some would have you believe. ![]() The P3AT’s trigger stacked a little and exhibited a bit of over-travel, but it’s not the pinchtastic finger-maimer some claim. This time, the gun didn’t try and jump out of my hand and scurry away into a dark corner. I mentally prepared myself for the upward motion and tugged the trigger again. Even before firing the Kel-Tec, I was beginning to understand why he carried a Kahr 9mm instead of the little Kel-Tec. But a funny thing happened on the way to a negative gun review…Īfter getting past the initial shock of a gun that muzzle-flipped me the bird on my first go, I rethought my hand position. Someone like a friend who owns one, but doesn’t use it as his everyday carry piece. Handicapped thusly, it’s easy to see why someone might prefer something a little more conventional for workaday personal protection. And another: the molded plastic grip frame means that you either learn to love the somewhat uncomfortable, hard plastic texture, or wrap it with some home-brew arrangement of soft rubber. Which renders the P3AT increasingly pointless.Īnother niggling negative: the slide doesn’t lock back after the final shot. Finger extensions and extended, higher-capacity magazines are available from Kel-Tec, but each one makes the gun a little larger than the original design. True, the six-round, single-stack magazine yields an ultra-narrow grip but the grip is so short that even in my small hands, only my middle finger and half my ring finger were able to grasp it. No thumb safety, no trigger safety, no grip safety and no heavy, revolver-like double-action trigger pull (the P3AT is DAO). To wit: at café Kel-Tec, de-contenting is the dish du jour. Our present subject draws perhaps the starkest contrast from this group. ![]() Its offerings are starkly different from the mini-nines of just a few years back. 380, as manufacturer after manufacturer has followed Kel-Tec’s pint-sized polymer lead and introduced similar semi-autos of their very own. ![]() 25 Auto just a generation ago is now the new. (Just like grown-up pistols!) Consequently, the P3AT doesn’t need a heavy slide to whoa nellie the action’s blowback.Įven though its name sounds like a “strong” password, the P3AT’s real strength is its ergonomic adequacy in the face of such fierce dimensional constraints. Would The Great One really decry the Kel-Tec, given its engineering? He would have marveled at the miniaturization: Kel-Tec ditched the straight blowback design favored by mouse gun manufacturers in favor of a locked breech system. Nonetheless, all the old 1911 guys can now forgive Glock for mainstreaming ugly guns and pray that the spirit of John Browning will smote Kel-Tec’s ballistic blasphemy. To be charitable, Kel-Tec set out to manufacture the lightest, most concealable. An ugly gun. While the P3AT isn’t “knock-a-dog-off-a-gut-wagon” ugly, buying this weapon for its looks would be like marrying Kendra Wilkinson for her intellect. ![]()
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