CTP will be exhibiting at the BSS 2022 at the NEC Birmingham. This is an ideal opportunity to meet our team and discuss your training requirements prior to making a decision to book a course with us. We will publish our stand location as soon as the organisers have finalised the exhibition layout.

Shooting on the move engaging multiple targets, with the STI 2011 Open Class Competition Pistol, optics fitted

Drawing from a competition holster rig and engaging the target with an optics fitted STI 2011 that has been heavily customised here in the CZ Republic for IPSC Competition shooting.

Just a few photos to get your pulses racing. The pistol featured is the race gun of one the competition shooters that trains with us, here in the CZ Republic. It is an STI 2011, that has been breathed on by one of our Czech gunsmiths. The detail work is amazing and just shows the quality of gunsmithing available here. 

Two of the top end 9mm PCC (pistol calibre carbines) are SIG MPX and DAVINCI. In fairness the JP gmr15 also belongs in that mix. Base price is about £2k for the Sig and £2.7k for the DAVINCI, plus stock upgrades and red dots etc. They are basically IPSC and Steel Challenge game guns. We can have semi-auto anything in Czech but the U.K. I guess you are looking at a Marlin under lever or 22lr.

9mm PCC sounds a good idea - cheap ammunition and steel target friendly however most 9mm carbines are still direct blowback and hamstrung by heavy bolts (CMMG rotating bolt, H & K MP5 roller locking, KRISS Vector and a few others spring to mind as exceptions). But to get the same or less recoil than a bog standard £800 AR15 in 223, you are going to spend a lot of money. Flat and fast shooting are all that matters for IPSC games and it does make a big difference.

SIG MPX (still my favourite) does it by a gas piston arrangement- and I think this is an excellent design and very versatile- one of my barrels is 6.5” plus suppressor, another 16” with compensator the same system works well with either.

DAVINCI does it by direct blowback a magnetic buffer and short stroking the action. The rifle is lighter than the SIG and has a 2” shorter barrel so is more manoeuvrable. It still is not as soft shooting as the SIG but the DAVINCI side charging makes it about a second faster to load with a table top start. DAVINCI make the upper and lower receiver in house. I think the barrel is sourced from JP? All top quality components anyway.