A friend of mine is thinking of buying one of these guns. Has anyone any experience with this particular gun?

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beaver

Having wanted a good 10mm myself for a long time , I could still kick myself for not buying the one I saw at a gunshow for $200.
Tanfoglio guns are very high quality. They were one of the first and best CZ-75 clones that were available in the US before the genuine article was allowed. Tanfoglio even made the P-9 and P-40 guns for Springfield Inc. And their importer , EAA has excellent customer service.

Outstanding guns. I have the EAA Witness Match in 45 ACP and 9MM. Don't shoot 10MM because it's expensive and I don't reload.

Do have a friend that has one. Again, great guns.

Shoot steel plates with 9MM. Lot's of fun.

Can't comment on the gun, but the 10mm is definately a reloader's round. Factory ammo is expensive and not available on every street corner. If one already loads .40, all that is required is a die adjustment and a little more powder. (And swapping over to large primers.)

Not sure about the EAA series of weapons, but as the owner of a CZ-85 I can certainly testify to the overall human engineering/ergonomics of the weapon. It truly does feel like it grew into your hand. And the 16 rounds don't make the grip feel too wide or blocky etc. Your buddy won't go wrong with a clone of that weapon. And he has the serious advantage of being able to swap top ends out and put whatever caliber he's in the mood for that day on the gun and go to the range.

I bought a EAA Witness .40 in about 1990 and I put about a zillion rounds through it and don't ever remember having a jam or any problems.
It was very accurate and had great controls and feel and I can't believe I sold it, sure wish I had it back.

I bought one of the first ones the brought in back in 97 or 98 (I forget which now). It was the older slab sided version that looked more like a hi-power then the rounded ones they have today. It and 5 mags were $285 back then.

The gun was outstanding. I was much more adventurous in my reloading back then and with 10mm, I went nuclear. I loaded rounds so hot out of that thing it was more like a rifle. It took it all with absolutely no problems. It was so reliable it became my truck gun for years. I had rifle like accuracy and power without a gun rack so I felt my truck was less of a theft target out in West Texas.

I shot that gun a ton till I got my Les Baer Custom 10mm. At that point, I decided why waste a perfectly good round of 10mm in the witness when I could shoot it out of my one of a kind Baer?

Hence the 10mm witness was sold to my shooting buddy and he still blasts with it.

By far it was and is a great gun. No regrets, no complaints, no problems.

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SWCA 1646

Tell your friend to get the Witness Match in 10mm, street price under 500, great ergonomics for 15 rounds of 10mm - makes the Glock 20 feel like a brick in your hand. Single action, nice trigger - one of my favorites. As above - got to reload.

I had one a few years back. I purchased it from CDNN. It had problems: the trigger wasn't straight in the frame, the rear sight wasn't properly dovetailed, staked, whatever, and the magazines that came with it were faulty. The gun malfunctioned due to the bad mags, and the rear sight had the bad habit of flying off the slide at random after discharging a round. I traded it in for another gun. I regret giving it up because it was the lightest recoiling 10mm I owned. Even more so than my S&W 1006 and 1066 and Glock 20. I think that was a testament to the overall design of the gun, warts and all, and the aftermarket recoil reduction system I had in the gun.

I "replaced" the 10mm Witness with a stainless steel .38 Super Witness. It's a nice gun. Accurate. Still, I miss the 10mm.