![]() ![]() A small cutout at the rear of the barrel hood offers a glimpse into the chamber and an external extractor bumps out slightly when a round is chambered. Those opting for the RDS, can simply use the sight as a giant charging handle. The standard model sees the rear serrations wrap over the top of the slide and provide good purchase for you sling-shoters out there. The slide offers front and rear slide serrations that offer good purchase for press checking, or fully retracting the slide. It’s similar to a full-size service pistol and makes this pistol very easy to shoot well, especially one-handed, as it minimizes movement of the pistol prior to the shot breaking. One of the features worth noting about this trigger is the length of pull. ![]() Shallow serrations are molded into either side of the protruding trigger safety but go mostly unnoticed. The trigger shoe is flat, in line with current trends, and it breaks right at 90 degrees, with minimal over travel - thanks to the stop molded into the rear of the shoe. The pull was a little mushy at first, but after a few days of dry-fire, and several hundred rounds at the range and a dab of lube on the trigger components, the nickel boron-treated parts began wearing on each other, and the pull really smoothed out. While not the best, nor the lightest striker-fired trigger out of the box, the Springfield Hellcat certainly is on the podium. Locking the slide back required a slight grip modification on our part, but was otherwise trouble-free. It is a little far rearward, but it’s certainly functional. Moving backward, the slide release is well-positioned for a quick sweep of the firing-hand thumb to chamber a fresh round. The Streamlight TLR-6 and SureFire XSC are both excellent options. However, since its release, both Streamlight and SureFire have come out with new models that fit the Hellcat and other microcompact guns. To kick things off, Springfield Armory nailed the undercut of the Springfield Hellcat trigger guard, allowing a high-firing hand grip, bringing the already low-bore axis that much closer to the top of the hand.Ī short universal rail section is molded into the dustcover, but it didn’t fit any of the miniature pistol lights we had on-hand, such as Streamlight's TLR-7/8 or SureFire’s XC-1/2. Both models feature the same front sight, featuring a high-vis yellow circle that surrounds a tritium insert and a U-notched rear sight with a white outline … that’s easily blacked out with a Sharpie. The low-profile, snag-free iron sights are visible within the window of the sight and are positioned just above what would be considered lower 1/3 co-witness height. So deep, in fact, that the bottom of the lens is almost level with the top of the slide. Our test pistol is the milled version and came equipped with an RMS-C, nestled extremely deep within the slide, just the way it should. Two versions are available one with iron sights and one milled for the popular Shield RMS-C footprint with co-witnessed iron sights. The Springfield Hellcat’s frame is a bit wider than the slide, making the slide release easy to hit and turning the takedown lever into a thumb-rest, for those inclined to use it that way. ![]()
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