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New Colors of METE/Rival Magwells
Just got in some METE/Rival magwells in Cerakote FDE, and Cerakote Gold. If you are waiting on your pre-orders, they should go out today!
We hope to have Brass Black and Brass Tungsten cerakoted parts in stock by the end of the week. Anodizing takes longer so Black and Red parts are still a couple weeks out.
Find these parts on our website at: https://taylorfreelancestore.com/canik/magwells/mete-rival/
New Canik Mete/Rival Magwell
It’s finally here! Our Canik Mete/Rival magwell is available for pre-order.
TF’s hot new magwell for the Canik Mete and Canik Rival brings the comfort, strength, and durability you expect from Taylor Freelance – with sharp-looking design! Deeper top-to-bottom and longer front-to-back than the factory Canik magwell, our magwell offers significantly more gripping surface and a much larger “target” to load into.
In the back, to get a larger feed area we replaced the little screw that secures the factory magwell with our “Overlock” system. The Overlock uses a relatively large set screw that’s pre-installed in the backstrap. (Can’t lose it! Hard to break!) The set screw pushes backward and up against the top of the magwell, tensioning everything. It comes off and on easily — but you will need a TF backstrap to mount this part.
We will have a full range of colors available. Shiny aluminum parts will be available in a few days, gold & Cerakote colors in the next couple weeks. Black and other anodized colors will be available in approximately a month. You can pre-order your part and get in on the fist batch using the link below!
Will keep updating pictures and delivery dates as time progresses.
Chatting with Champions
I’ve always “geeked out” over the thinking behind weapon systems, and champion-level shooters have design ideas that others never imagine.
This month I’ve been talking with Josh Froelich and Chris Barrett about the Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC). Froelich is one of the best action shooters in the world with the PCC, and Barrett is a multi-year PCC world champion in Steel Challenge. Both of them shoot the JP-5, and with our new JP-5 magwell coming to market, we had lots to talk about!
Reloading the PCC takes more focus than a pistol because the magazine well is floating in space, separated from your hand. To load successfully, you need to see where the magwell is in space, and at what angle (both side-to-side and front-to-back).
PCC magwells are typically cut at an angle that looks cool in pictures. Sadly, looking cool doesn’t help you reload. The shooter needs to know, absolutely, at what angle to insert the magazine. If they don’t get the angle right, the mag bangs into the sides of the magazine well and doesn’t go all the way in. TF “Fatties” are cut to give the shooter a visual reference. Just by looking at the magwell, you know your angle. Insert the mag “square” to the magwell opening and the mag slides right in – even if you’re off a little to one side.
Froelich, Barrett, and I got talking about visual cues as they relate to the JP-5. I’ve met several serious shooters who put a patch of white paint on the inside-right surface of their magwell. When they tip the gun to the side to reload, that white patch shows up and draws the eye, helping them “look” the magazine into the gun. Wouldn’t that be especially helpful in the hard-to-reload PCC?
Froelich thought it would, Barrett thought it wouldn’t, so to test that, I got a hold of Jim Coffey at Helios Arms, and we’ve got test units going to both of them. Each will have a black Cerakote layer on the outside, and a white layer on the inside.
At TF, we bring our multi-disciplinary experience together with specific knowledge from the “big guns” like Barrett and Froelich to create the best “athletic equipment” we can. Together we build in subtle changes that help your performance – so you don’t have to think about it.