Ok INGO! Help a Brother out by finding a Canik TP-9SA & your thoughts on it.

[KokomoDave]

I have seen the YouTube ads / reviews / etc and want to buy a TP-9SA. This is the newer version (virgin?) with the Glockazoid-like striker fire aseembly that fires 5 bajillion bullets per minute (5bbpm). Problem is finding one from a local source and what do you guys and gals think of the new platform? MSRP is less then $400.00. I gotta run one...

 

[rob63]

I am interested in it too, however, I have a reservation. Hopefully, I am wrong about this, but it is my understanding that they kept the decocker even though they changed it to single action? If so, I don't understand the logic in that, particularly considering it is striker fired.

 

[Birds Away]

It is a striker fired gun so it does not have a decocker. I just read some reviews and looked at some photos. It looks about like the gun it is cloned from.

 

[Tactically Fat]

It is a striker fired gun so it does not have a decocker. I just read some reviews and looked at some photos. It looks about like the gun it is cloned from.

No. Just because something is striker-fired doesn't preclude it from having a decocker.

According to their website, the TP-9 DOES have a decocking lever. CAN?K 55 - Samsun Yurt Savunma Sanayi ve Ticaret A.?.

 

[Clay]

Canik TP9SA 9mm Handgun Review (HD) - YouTube

according to the latest MrGunsandGear review, it does have a decocker, and he shows how it works in the video.

 

[rob63]

Canik TP9SA 9mm Handgun Review (HD) - YouTube

according to the latest MrGunsandGear review, it does have a decocker, and he shows how it works in the video.

Thanks for the video link, very informative.

 

[mannus]

I read at either guns.com or thetruthaboutguns.com that it is slated for release on the 14th of this month. It appears that they made some favorable cosmetic as well as mechanical upgrades to this firearm.

 

[wesnellans]

Hey, this place shows in stock?

CIA HG3277N TP9SA 9MM W/CSE BLK 18RD

 

[Clay]

what other brand of mags will fit this pistol?

 

[Tactically Fat]

what other brand of mags will fit this pistol?

Gonna go WAY out on a limb and suggest that the SW99 and P99 mags. And whatever mags from Kahr's period of time they had the license (The name of the actual company producing it escapes me at the moment.

They're all copies / clones of the Walther P99.

 

[tonybia]

Gonna go WAY out on a limb and suggest that the SW99 and P99 mags. And whatever mags from Kahr's period of time they had the license (The name of the actual company producing it escapes me at the moment.

They're all copies / clones of the Walther P99.

They use the Beretta m9 mags...

 

[wesnellans]

They use the Beretta m9 mags...

not according to reviews. It was originally stated somewhere , but proven incorrect in the review linked above.

 

[KokomoDave]

It looked like the M9 / 92 mags can have a new notch Dremel'ed into them for the mag to lock in properly.

 

[ChalupaCabras]

Staggering amount of missinformation here... But then again, this is INGO, and the gun in question is neither a Glock or a 1911.

The TP9 series has a lot of significant mechanical differences from the Walther P99. The trigger mechanism is its own animal, and not coppied from anything. It is not a clone - the resemblance is cosmetic.

The old version was already a phenominal gun that could hold its own against ANY current service pistol on the market. I'm curious to see how they 'improved' it, and what they consider and upgrade.

 

[BrewerGeorge]

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The old version was already a phenominal gun that could hold its own against ANY current service pistol on the market. I'm curious to see how they 'improved' it, and what they consider and upgrade.

While I agree that it is a phenomenal value, that trigger break is the hardest I've ever encountered; it feels like you have to push it into the handle to get it to fire. If they moved that break a 1/16th of an inch from the back it would improve immensely, IMO.

 

[Tactically Fat]

This reviewer calls the TP-9 has a faithful reproduction of the Walther striker system. Overview: Canik TP-9 (Walther P99 Clone) « Apex Gunsmithing

Granted, the one reviewed was a TP-9 and not the -9SA I cannot easily locate a date when that was written.

Photos from here further cement my opinion that this Canik pistol is a P99 clone. Wookies Words: Canik 55 TP-9 vs Walther P99

 

[wizardfitz]

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