para nite hawg vs eaa

tone59

May 27, 2011 16:42

looking at buying a new para nite hawg or 3.6 inch barrel eaa 10mm.can anyone comment on the reliability and performance of these guns and or the grip circumference compared to a 40cal glock? are night sights available for the eaa?

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  quickmajik

  May 28, 2011 19:15

  basically what want is a comparison A Para P-12 with night sights Vrs a compact 10mm CZ75 clone?

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  beantownshootah

  May 29, 2011 08:33

  Its a tough question because you're asking for a head to head comparison of two not all that common guns, against one that is common.
  
  I haven't shot the Night hawg nor the small 10mm Tanfoglio gun, but I have shot the substantially similar Warthog a little and the bigger Tanfoglio Witness guns a lot, so maybe I can tell you *something*.
  
  -Reliability: Didn't have a mulfunction with any of them, though I didn't put many rounds through the Para gun, so its a pretty small sample size. CZ-75 platform (Tanfoglio) is known to be highly reliable. I'm a bit more skeptical of the mini-1911, though if you use a firm grip and ball ammo (as I did) you're probably going to be fine.
  
  -Performance: See above. These are small guns with powerful rounds. Recoil is going to be high, especially with 10mm. Personally, I wouldn't even consider a subcompact gun in 10mm like this, unless I were trying to share ammo and magazines with a larger 10mm I already had.
  
  Recoil with the Warthog was pretty high, but not painful or uncontrollable. The big fat grip does soak some of this up.
  
  Short barrel, of course, increases muzzle flash and gimp performance compared to a more conventionally sized gun.
  
  -Grip: Grips are fat, with the Para being sort of round and baseball-bat like. That's got to be fatter than a .40 Glock, though I didn't find it uncomfortable. I definitely would NOT buy one without at least getting a chance to hold it first! EAA, I think is a bit thinner, though I can't compare to a Glock.
  
  I don't think night sights are available for the Tanfoglio guns.
  
  My personal take, bluntly, is that I'm not really a fan of small all steel double-stack subcompact guns like these. You have something the thickness of a full sized gun, and most of the weight, so why not just carry a full sized gun?

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