Recently, you may have been inconvenienced by threads looking for feedback on what 9mm I should buy, and if I should sell my Walther P22. A couple weeks ago, at Fleet Farm, I came across a gun I was thinking of ordering from the internet. I decided the price was right and it had the features I wanted, so I put my Walther up on armslist. The following day, I had sold the P22 for roughly the same amount that I wound up paying for the 9mm. Convenient.

I went with a gun I mentioned a while back and have been reading about for months now. The Arcus 98DAC. Its essentially a compact Hi-Power clone made in Bulgaria. It met my criteria of being fairly compact and concealable, metal framed, low cost, having decent capacity, and a manual safety.

I'm not going to get into great detail with everything yet. I'll post a review later. So far, I've only ran 200 rounds through it, but I am pleased with its balance and surprising accuracy I had no jams, but I did have the first round in a mag fail to chamber a couple times when I would drop the slide. I want to run at least another 3-400 rounds through it before I start carrying it.

The same day I christened my Arcus, I dressed my Ruger MKII with some Hogue ampidexterous grips. Its like a different gun now. Recoil is non-existent and I honestly believe they aided my accuracy. I hit the same water bottle about 7 out of 10 times from maybe 60 yards away (don't know, I'm a bad judge of distance) using only the hood of my Tahoe as a rest. That's good for me, since I practice most of my pistol shooting in the under 25 yard range. Don't think I'm going to miss the Walther much, except on a tacticool level.

Feel free to hate on me for not buying a big name polymer 9 or opting for a .40. More rounds will tell, but I believe I got a winner on my hands, and I paid zero out of pocket.

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