![]() ![]() It barely creeps, and breaks clean and crisp at about 6 lbs. The go-pedal of the IWI Masada is near sublime. If that's true, a bevy of aftermarket sights are available. We couldn't get official confirmation of this, but the rumor is that the Masada uses Sig Sauer sight cuts. The sights (front blade, rear combat ramp) are dovetailed, so they could be swapped. Per Atlantic Firearms, it's compatible with Trijicon RMR, Leupold Delta Point, Sig Sauer Romeo 01 and Vortex Venom optics. The white dot sights are usable, though you can order a model with night sights from the factory. The slide comes pre-machined for use with a reflex optic, so it's ready for a red dot sight if you so prefer. The barrel sits over a dual captive recoil spring, fairly standard for the type. Takedown is the standard dry-fire method, with a Beretta-style takedown lever. There are fore and aft cocking serrations, which are large and grippy. Controls are truly ambidextrous slide stop/release levers and magazine release buttons are on both sides. You get a generously high grip very easily, and most people will find accessing the slide stop and magazine release buttons with the shooting hand thumb pretty easy. The backstrap is deceptively deep, as it looks shorter than it is. It has a pleasant texture rather than stipling, again much like the Walther. ![]() The pistol comes with swappable backstrap panels, with small, medium and larger units coming with the gun. The grip angle is the more traditional 18 degrees, unlike Glock's 22-degree rake, so it fits the hand very nicely. However, no other frame/slide sizes are being made.at least yet. If you like the PPQ, you'll like the Masada.Ī cool tidbit? The Masada is actually a chassis-based pistol, so the firing group could actually be swapped into a different frame. The IWI Masada is heavily influenced by the Walther PPQ, which is often regarded as (probably) the best striker-fired pistol money can buy, with the VP9 being very close behind it. ![]() Right at home in the segment smaller than a Glock 17, but more in the wheelhouse of a VP9 or PPQ as it's bigger than a Glock 19. So, as you can see, your standard slightly-compacted full-size striker gun. Factory rail? Yes! 1913 pattern, MIL-STD.Sights: Dovetailed 3-Dot, with tritium night sights available as a factory upgrade.Capacity: 17+1 of 9mm, and you get two magazines.If you needed to resist bad guys, it's a good tool to have. It became a symbol for Jewish resistance to outside occupation and oppression, and remains a popular tourist site to this day.Īnyhow, that's what the pistol is named for. A couple of the wives wisely thought "to heck with this!" and hid in a cistern with a few children and survived. The men in charge (typical guys make a mess of everything) decided that it was better not to be taken alive (in fairness, there would have been a lot of crucifictions) so they set fire to the place and started killing everyone. Masada was the last holdout of the Sicarii, a Judean revolutionary/guerilla army who rebelled against the Roman occupation (they also killed other people for disagreeing with them it was kind of like "Life of Brian" just desperately unfunny and violent) during the first century AD/CE, whichever is your preferred notation.Įventually, the Sicarii holed up in Masada with their wives and children as they were being pursued by the Tenth Legion. The Masada is named for a mountaintop fortress in the Judean desert, south of Jerusalem. Masada features a polygonal rifled, cold hammer forged barrel with 1:10 RH twist rate and 17 round magazines.We start this review of the IWI Masada with the numbers.īut first a brief detour. Three interchangeable wrap-around back-straps, coupled with a deep beaver-tail, enable the Masada pistol to fit a wide variety of hand sizes. The Masada features a low-bore axis design for reduced felt recoil, fully-ambidextrous controls, and enhanced ergonomics that provide a natural and instinctive grip angle. The Masada Slim is already in use by various forces around the world.”Ībout the Masada family of striker-fired pistols: IWI’s Masada 9mm polymer-framed striker-fired pistol was developed to provide an advanced solution to for the modern battlefield requirements. “Despite its compact size, we have maintained all the proven benefits of other IWI pistols, including a unique safety mechanism, with the goal of achieving maximum user safety. VP Marketing and Sales at SK Group and IWI. “We developed the Masada Slim in direct response to the changing needs of our customers around the world for maximum flexibility and adaptability for any mission,” says Ronen Hamudot, Exe. The IWI Masada Slim is both compact and much slimmer than most 9mm 13-round handguns ![]()
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