Hello friends at thehighroad, I've recently sold a Colt Government 380 which has been a safe queen for the last two years and since I don't like safe queens I finally decided to let it go to a good friend of mine and use the money to buy something else.
Three weeks ago I was making a trip on italian gun shop websites, trying to know the street price of some option I had for a new pistol and I saw this used Pardini GT9-1 with the silver finish, in perfect conditions at a very fair price.
In the last year or so I learned alot of the Pardini GT series and I wanted one badly but the price of a new one was too high for my budget. But I luckly found this one and decided to grab it home.
I have to say that the educated opinion about this pistol of lifesizepotato and bac1023 influenced my choice in some way.
The pistol is smooth as glass; the slide glides on the frame in an incredible manner. Everything speaks abuot quality and precision. The trigger is great: a little pre-travel, clean break and no overtravel. Trigger and sights are fully adjustable. The backstrap that carries the safeties, the beaver tail and the hammer mechanism, can be separeted from the frame.
Accuracy is outstanding. This gun is really overbuilt: the thickness of the chamber and barrel is ridicolous but that doesn't surprise me because, as I understand, it was designed for the .45ACP when it first came out in 1994. I've shot 180 rounds at my first range trip with it and no problems whatsoever. I've shot Sellier & Bellot FMJ-RN and Fiocchi FMJ-RN and CP-RN with a bullet weigth from 123 to 124 grains. recoil is very soft. Oh well, the caliber is the 9x21 IMI, also known as 9mm Italian.
I have to say I liked the look of the shorter GT9 better but I couldn't pass on this one.
One more thing: if you are interested in the GT series, belive me, get the black version because the silver finish is a little pain to maintain it cleaned to my standards. However it looks very cool.
Now the pics from my good friend Luca:
Some more pics here where I purchased the gun: http://www.armeriarcm.com/show_product.php?product=688
Three weeks ago I was making a trip on italian gun shop websites, trying to know the street price of some option I had for a new pistol and I saw this used Pardini GT9-1 with the silver finish, in perfect conditions at a very fair price.
In the last year or so I learned alot of the Pardini GT series and I wanted one badly but the price of a new one was too high for my budget. But I luckly found this one and decided to grab it home.
I have to say that the educated opinion about this pistol of lifesizepotato and bac1023 influenced my choice in some way.
The pistol is smooth as glass; the slide glides on the frame in an incredible manner. Everything speaks abuot quality and precision. The trigger is great: a little pre-travel, clean break and no overtravel. Trigger and sights are fully adjustable. The backstrap that carries the safeties, the beaver tail and the hammer mechanism, can be separeted from the frame.
Accuracy is outstanding. This gun is really overbuilt: the thickness of the chamber and barrel is ridicolous but that doesn't surprise me because, as I understand, it was designed for the .45ACP when it first came out in 1994. I've shot 180 rounds at my first range trip with it and no problems whatsoever. I've shot Sellier & Bellot FMJ-RN and Fiocchi FMJ-RN and CP-RN with a bullet weigth from 123 to 124 grains. recoil is very soft. Oh well, the caliber is the 9x21 IMI, also known as 9mm Italian.
I have to say I liked the look of the shorter GT9 better but I couldn't pass on this one.
One more thing: if you are interested in the GT series, belive me, get the black version because the silver finish is a little pain to maintain it cleaned to my standards. However it looks very cool.
Now the pics from my good friend Luca:
Some more pics here where I purchased the gun: http://www.armeriarcm.com/show_product.php?product=688