Overall, I was pleased with the fit and finish of this little pocket pistol. I took it apart, cleaned it up, worked the action the first couple of days probably a hundred times or so.
So today after trying to get out of town for close to an hour and an half, I finally headed to the range. I picked up some Remington Sureshot 95 gr on the way out there. I also had a few hundred Georgia Arms with me.
I started out by shooting the course of fire for the Texas CHL, 20 rds from 3 yds, 20 rds from 7 yds, then 10 rds from 15 yds. Below is that target with the first 50 rds through the gun.
The failures that I had were:
Rd 11 ftf, rd 44 ftf, rd 49 ftf. First fifty were the Remington Sureshot.
Rd 68 fft, rd 80 ftf, rd 99 ftf, rd 101 ftf, rd 143 ftf, rd 168 ftf. Rds 51 through 168 were Georgia Arms factory reloads, pretty dirty stuff.
Then I set up another target and ran through the course of fire again for the Texas CHL.
Rd 180 I had a failure to go into battery fully. Rds 169 through 218 were Remington Sureshot. Below is the target for the second course of fire.
I did not change my point of aim on either the first of second course of fire. I simply kept shooting with the sights zeroed on the X ring. Personally I think that the shots being low left are a result of the short distance to the trigger and the trigger almost being at the second knuckle of my shooting finger. I did experiment a bit, during the session and tried to place just the first portion of the trigger finger on the trigger, that seemed to help a bit.
After those 218 rds I shot 50 more GA rds and had a few failures to fully go into battery and a couple of failures to eject. The gun was really dirty by this time. Then I field stripped it and cleaned it up a bit with some FP10 and qtips, dried off that, then lubed it slightly and reassembled it.
I then shot 50 rds of GA with zero failures. Then I loaded 5 rds of Remington JHP, and 5 rds of Cor Bon JHP. There were no failures on the Rem, but one ftf on the 3rd rd of Cor Bon. The 10 JHP's were the only ones that were in the .380 ammo can. I wish I had checked for more before heading out.
Overall I was happy with the first 300 or so rds out of this thing. I was anticipating that my hand would be suffering after that many rounds, but honestly I didn't notice any sore spots and I am no worse for the wear. The P3AT's and LCPs that I have shot previously were not so kind to my hands for some reason. The sights on the gun are minimal, but for a pocket pistol and the close range shooting what it was designed for they are ok. The carry case that came with it, well I haven't made up my mind as to whether I will ever use it or not. It is kind of big, but would do in a pinch if you had no other way to carry the gun.
I am not ready to call this one good for carry yet, I will have to run some more rounds through it and find out if it is going to be picky with the type of bullet it likes to digest. From what I have noticed the GA reloads are a pretty varied bunch of casings. I don't think that they are nearly as uniform as genuine factory loads or even my own reloads, and some of the failures may have been due to this ammo.
I hope this helps anyone who is looking at the TCP to make a decision as to buy one or not. I didn't expect it to run flawlessly right out of the box, especially with a couple of hundred rounds of GA ammo.
