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Busy days for IWI, new Tavor 7 and now a new line of striker based pistols called Masada.
On Thursday TFB published a series of photos that IWI had dropped to tease us and we now have more details to confirm our guesswork.
night sight.
The Masada magazines are 17+1, just as we guessed.
The IWI Masada pistol will be available in four colors: Sniper Gray, OD Green, Black, and Flat Dark Earth, great company for your Tavor rifle.
IWI Masada Features:
- Striker-fired pistol
- Easy racked slide with improved front and rear cocking serrations
- External extractor integrated with a tactile and visual loaded chamber indicator
- Cold hammer-forged polygonal rifled barrel
- Integral MIL-STD 1913 picttiny rail
- 17+1 rds. black magazines with visible round count
- Fixed 3-dot Tritium illuminated night sights (optional)
- 100% interchangeability, with an interchangeable trigger mechanism housing that reduces maintenance and life cycle costs
Optimized ergonomic design:
- Clean and crisp trigger reset with a built in trigger safety
- Fast, easy and safe disassembly without the need to pull the trigger
- components
- Combat-style sights, optional: fixed 3-dot tritium sights
- Low barrel axis for reduced perceived recoil
- 3 Interchangeable wrap around back-straps – S, M, L
- Large trigger guard for use with or without gloves
- Enhanced grip texture which enables faster follow-up shots in all conditions
- Fully ambidextrous operating controls: Slide stop lever, Magazine release, Manual Safety (by special order)
The technical data:
Caliber: 9X19mm
Barrel length (mm): 104 (4.1″)
Total length (mm): 189
Weight (approx. Kg) (w/o magazine): .650
Yes, there’s a video as well: IWI Masada Striker-Fired Pistol
The pistol will be available to our customers from Q1/18. We do not have a price.
Now the IWI Masada has a page of its own, check it out here: http://iwi.net/masada/
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...iwi-masada-pistol-striker-based-line-pistols/