The illustrious comrade in arms of Major Caudill, Tom Kill…err, Tamara Keel of View From The Porch blog is writing an article about Boberg XR9-S for Concealed Carry magazine. I got to photograph her on the secret Lunar base right after she test fired the guns to evaluate their performance in reduced gravity. Photos of her with Professor de la Paz coming shortly.
Boberg XR9-S “platinum” edition. It’s the most advanced pistol design out there, with a long barrel in a short slide, excellent trigger, great accuracy and minimal felt recoil. I am very much a fan.
I mentioned Meco holsters before. 1 | 2 Robert does a great job with leather.
When the belt is cinched, the holster lays flat against the body.
Boberg XR9-L is now shipping. The barrel is 0.9″ longer than the S variant. Not a huge difference, but it gives the barrel full length of 4.2″ (halfway between Glock 17 and Glock 19), a Picatinny rail sufficient for a C5L light/laser and slower slide velocity that allows the L to feed even uncrimped ammunition like CCI Blazer. The same low recoil and great mechanical accuracy as the shortie, but with extra 0.9″ of sight radius.
Boberg Arms is mostly known for high quality bullpup 9mm pistols. Recently, they produced a small batch of high-grade AR15 receivers. About fifteen of them are still available.
The gun is small, light, has a good trigger and very low recoil.
First, I tried it on paper.
Rapid fire from 21ft shows lack of trigger control on my part, I am still not used to DAO triggers. That said, none of the shots hit further than 1.5″ from point of aim, which is ok for a pocket pistol.
Pumpkins are fun targets, so I rolled out a fairly small, about a foot in diameter, one onto the range.
At 25 yards, rapid fire puts all 8 shots in a fairly tidy groups. Larger holes are from double hits. The advantage of the longer barrel show up on the photos showing the back of this pumpkin.
Thanks to the high muzzle velocity, 124gr Golden Sabres did a nice job of expanding even on the hollow target. Felt recoil was on par with locked breech Walther PK380 chambered for 9×17(380Auto).
I recommend. Get your own.
My photo accompanies Eugene Volokh’s article in Washington Post.
Taking a break between photos to try out a 300 Blackout barrel for my ARAK21. It worked well and the recoil was almost imperceptible. The optic is a Primary Arms 1-6x.
(Photos by Bob Faxon)
Last year, I was curious what happened to KD Holsters and discovered that the brand was no longer. But some of their designs live on through Nelson Holsters. James Ervin Nelson took the most popular designs from several old brands, improved them, added several of his own, and now makes comfortable and well-made leather for everyday carry.
Making a comfortable but discreet holster for an L frame revolver is a tough task. This one worked out great.
The main advantage of custom makers is their ability to make something unusual for a common gun or to accommodate something uncommon. Boberg XR9-S in a concealment holster.
Very stable despite the short slide which proved a challenge to some other leather-workers.
This is how it sits on a curvy hip:
It disappears under shirt or a blouse.
