CEO, Trevor Roe, discusses our changes and production growth to keep up with the demand of 2020. We are in the midst of our biggest expansion in the history of our company to keep up with your demand for our pistols. We are continuing to increase production to get all dealers and distributors restocked with […]
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Technical Tuesday: A Malfunctioning Gun….But are they Shadow Parts?
What happens when we receive a returned gun that is malfunctioning? Here is a look behind the scenes at our team reviewing a pistol that was having a major malfunction. What will we find when we open it up?
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: MR920 Optic Cut Slide Disassembly Made Easy
Trevor and Alex review a trick to easily disassembling and reassembling the optic cut slide on the MR920.
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: Ammunition Selection and Sights
Not sure what ammo will work in your Shadow Systems pistol? We discuss ammunition selection in general terms and then do a deep dive into a common question about how our pistols are zeroed. Correction: Sorry, looks like a swapped the velocities for 115 gr. and 124 gr. when writing them on the […]
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: MR920L
Meet the MR920L, the long-slide version of our MR920 Elite. The MR920L features a longer, 4.5″ top end on a compact frame. Today, we discuss the features of the MR920L and the benefit of the longer slide for shootability.
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: MR918 vs Squib Load
Our first Technical Tuesday in a while, we’re taking a look at a customer’s gun that was damaged by a squib load. We’ll first talk about what a squib load is and how to identify it when you’re shooting and then we will take a look at how the gun held up to being blown […]
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: Low Bore Axis
This week, we are looking at the bore axis of different polymer frames as it compares to the MR918 frame. One of the main pieces of feedback we are hearing from customers who have purchased the MR918 is how flat it shoots–what that means is there is not a lot of muzzle flip during firing. […]
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: Common Customer Service Questions about the MR918
This week, we’re going to answer the top three customer service questions we’ve received so far about the MR918. The first is Assembly and Disassembly: 1. People seem to have a tendency to pull the slide back a bit too far when they are disassembling the MR918. It may be that some folks aren’t used […]
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: New Shooter Introduction
Ok, so you bought your first gun…now what? This week’s Technical Tuesday is for the new shooters out there with some recommendations of what you should do and what to focus on to get started in shooting sports with your new pistol. Start out by reading our manual–we know, this sounds like a given, but […]
Continue readingTechnical Tuesday: Why we machine our firing pins out of solid stainless steel
This week’s Technical Tuesday takes a deeper look into the materials we select for our Firing Pins. The Shadow Systems Firing Pins are different from others you’ll see in the market, because they are machined from solid 17-4 stainless steel. 17-4 stainless steel is considered to be the premium stainless steel in the gun […]
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