Avidity Arms PD-10 First Look

This is new Avidity Arms PD-10, and this is the first look that we are taking at it closely here at Personal Defense Network since the gun has actually gone to the production model phase. This is PD-10-02, this is the second gun to be assembled. This is about our third, fourth-generation I guess of shooting gun and this is the third generation that's actually in this final configuration we've got. So, a couple little tweaks that are going to be made: of course the first production run is going to have a gray polymer, that's probably how you'll know the difference when you start seeing those in social media. This is a purpose built defensive gun. It's a single stack obviously full sized gun. It's a modern striker fired gun that really has gone all the way from napkin sketch and some specs that I gave to the engineers when we formed Avidity Arms to this shooting model and pretty soon to a production model that'll be available in early 2017. Now, it was designed with a magazine release that can be switched from a left-hander's and a right-hander's. It's got a single sided slide stop and it's got a moderate length pull with about a five pound trigger weight. It's got a very short reset and a very smooth take-up to that first shot. It's going to come standard with ICE claw sights of course and a claw baseplate on a ten round Chip McCormick magazine. That'll give you a ten plus one magazine capacity in a single stack full size modern striker fired gun. And this is something that we haven't seen on the market before, of course there are guns that can be modified with extended magazines or some sleeves that go around the base of the magazines, things like that to be similar to this, but one of the things a lot of people have been asking for for the better part of two decades now is that full size single stack modern striker fired gun and that ten plus one type capacity and I thought "You know what? Let's go ahead and build one". This is the first gun that I've designed. It's the first gun from a new company we formed called Avidity Arms. It's got some little things on here that I really like, it's special features as far as the way we've set the gun up for the ergonomics, you know I've spent thousands of classes, thousands of students, a lot of time on the ranges with people of all different skill levels, all different hand shapes and sizes and what I've found is that a single stack gun, one that has a lot of contort, it reduced the girth around the grip area going out to the trigger is going to fit more hands than any other type of configuration. It's going to be good for a small handed person, it's still going to work for a large handed person of course the majority of people are going to find this gun very comfortable. It's got a very low bore axis, it's got a loaded chamber indicator which is great for some markets, some people love that, I can kind of take it or leave it. It does not have a magazine disconnect safety, does not have any kind of safety lever, obviously no de-cocker needed. We do have a small accessory rail that's going to accommodate some light and laser combos. The Viridian C5 is one that we tested it with, of course some of the other models and other brands also will fit on there. It's got a take down that you'll be familiar with from some other modern striker guns and of course it's got a large magazine release because that's a piece that we want to be very positive and very easy for people to use. The emergency manipulation claw baseplate and again I already mentioned the claw sights with the wide rear notch, the large front square and of course that's setup for one-handed manipulations as well. And of course it wouldn't be much of a first look if I didn't shoot it. [Gunshots] You see what's going on here with the gun, this gun is very smooth very easy to shoot, it also is going to have exactly the kind of accuracy potential you want for those high level precision shots. [Gunshot] So the PD-10, look for it for MSRP of 499 from Avidity Arms at your local retailer, of course you're going to be able to find out plenty of information at my social media, at the Avidity Arms.com website and through Personal Defense Network.