Well the purchase has been made. So now it has to ship in from out of state.
Time will tell if and to what extent I was actually the victim of "hype". I remain unresolved in knowing a clear path forward regarding purchase, so I've taken on a bit of a risk in purchasing anyway. My only point of reference is my 2015 purchase of a highly optioned Wilson Combat CQB Elite for $4,400 from Tractus Arms. That turned out pretty well.
The comments are much appreciated.
In coming to a decision there are the consistently over-the-top glowing statements by reviewers, there are the people here understandably shaking their head at the price, and then of course the Ratzeberg era remarks towards the "new" Korth.
The risk of purchase was in the end the hope for the kind of quintessential revolver shooting experience reported by so many with the Mongoose in other corners of the internet. I even got PM'd by a guy saying he was at the Gun Site Anniversary Shoot referenced in Post #35 and assuring me the description of the gun there is over the top but essentially true. My endless cycling of the gun's action in the store would agree that the action is unprecedented in my own limited revolver experience.
The article linked above by 6String (Post #39) says in part, "There are many objectively measurable performance factors according to which Ratzeburg Korth revolvers are far superior to their S&W counterparts.". As someone who owns and appreciates multiple S&W tuned Performance Center revolvers (4 pic'd below), even if the more modern Nighthawk imported expression of the Korth is not a Ratzeburg Korth, but moves the needle forward in the same way going from a Kimber 1911 to a Wilson Combat did, I'll be delighted. But I suspect the difference may be even greater.
Wilson Combats, Ratzeburg Korths, Nighthawk Korths, ironically, in a gunfight, arguably the apex of one's defensive trust in their firearm's platform and a manufacturer's expression of that platform, I'd have the weapon in my duty belt every time: a Glock Model 35 that the agency pays like $450 for. But that's not why I bought a Korth.
Pictured, TRR8, 627 UDR, 586 L-Comp, M&P R8, all but the M&P tuned by TK Custom, Illinois.
Last edited by dwever; 07-20-2017 at 09:05 AM.
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