This pistol has very nice trigger and clever slide catcher.
Slide catcher of AW93 is little bit dummy - it catches slide automatically after the last shot. I don't like such behavior. Its nasty position behind the index finger limits our freedom in making custom grip.
SP08 has special small lever on the damper... so every time we need to open slide after "unload" command - we just need pull slide back and press this lever.
Any chance of a higher resolution image? Otherwise, could you post a link to where that (and any other) images may be?
I'm not particularly taken by the unrestrained recoil spring. My own experience with the IZH35 which also uses this is that I found it fiddly and awkward to fit the spring back into place when reassembling the gun after a field-strip. The restrained spring on a guide-rod system used by the AW93 is I think better in this regard.
It looks so much like the FWB AW93 that I hope it is as easy to take apart, and not like the IZH35M in that respect.
Really Paulo, my IZH is easy to take apart. In fact it came apart all by itself when I cocked it for rapid fire the other day. I must have bumped that button beneath the lower barrel shroud and it just popped off. I caught it, reassembled and still managed to be ready when the target turned.
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I meant all the screws in IZH, instead of a spring lock on the FWB.
The 3 screws on the IZH top shroud are not actually part of the original design, they were added for the US market to mount optics on the top cover without it rattling.
As originally designed for ISSF disciplines, the IZH is one of the easiest match pistols to disassemble, just the spring loaded button under the front of the bottom shroud.
The US version is a pest, plus the crews have a tendency to shred and loosen, and many people switch to hexagonal socket from the original slot type screws for that reason.
ruig wrote:There is a well known name in the EU/World behind Demyan LLC. He knows how to sell and what a service/sell network is. Believe me. I hope that in the end of this week we will get more info.
I may have missed it but nobody seems to have spotted, or at least mentioned, the Mannel name and logo on the pistol.
I think that's what ruig meant when he spoke about the experienced person / service concept behind the project... Demyan GmbH ist located in Ernsthofen, so it could have been Steyr, too, but that would have stretched it pretty far... I only wonder why the grips are not made by Ciro Fiore, who is associated with Männel, too...
I have called the number on the web site from the US, they are there!
I would also try Mannel, at this time, they look like future distributors, since they were showcasing the gun in Germany.
paulo wrote:I have called the number on the web site from the US, they are there!
I would also try Mannel, at this time, they look like future distributors, since they were showcasing the gun in Germany.
Thanks paulo for your reply.
Well, have made contact with Männel and here is the great news!
I can confirm that they will be producing the SP 1 in Ernsthofen – Austria. They hope to make first deliveries by end of the year.
Prices still to be finalised but from what I have been informed by Herr Männel, it will be cheaper then the SSP & AW93.
For the Aussies amongst us, Target Rifle South in Sth Aust. will be our point of contact.
Yes we will sell the Demyan Sportpistol and I hope we will be ready end of the year to deliver the first pistols.
The price we calculate is including Austrian VAT approximately € 1.580,-
Wow. I am amazed that the extremely advanced and elusive cultural technique of actually ANSWERING customer inquiries (what a novel concept! so totally and shockingly unRussian!!) has entered already the "new" Demyan mindset. Stunning. Ts ts.
Alexander wrote:Wow. I am amazed that the extremely advanced and elusive cultural technique of actually ANSWERING customer inquiries (what a novel concept! so totally and shockingly unRussian!!) has entered already the "new" Demyan mindset. Stunning. Ts ts.
Why would an Austrian company have developed what you seem to consider a "Russian" attitude to customer service.
