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Hey now, it has a whole 5/8” of rifling 😉

@@booliganshootingsports average size, its not small

One isn’t better than the other. A P80 has fewer reliability variables, but a printed frame can even exactly what you want it to be. Want a 26 length grip with a 17 length slide? Print it. Want a frame that looks like the Halo Magnum? Print it. It’s about making what you want and not just what the market offers.

It’s more competent than that, but sure. You can get all 6 rounds on a hand sized target at the 7 yards that 95% of self defense shootings occur at. But yes, if it goes to ground, you’re still in good shape with this.

Mine is a pre-production model so it didn’t come with the factory manual, but it says right on the site that +P loads are good to go. If the manual says something different, that’s news to me!

Third point stabilized for more precise firing at long ranges and non reciprocating optic mounting with MANY more options for optics are reason enough to do something like this. It’s like comparing a Glock 17 with an Evo3 Micro. Both shoot 9mm and both have roughly the same size barrel, so they essentially do nothing but look different right?

The View was one of my inspirations for this, but I wanted to improve on the concept by retaining +P rating and adding that 6th round.

It’s not a Fitz without the cut trigger guard and we wouldn’t be talking about it today if it wasn’t a Fitz 🤷‍♂️

It’s surprisingly well put together. It’s effectively an all steel Taurus 85 with some cosmetic changes to appear more like a classic revolver, and they did a fantastic job on it. Runs smoother than some of my Rugers and Smiths.

@booliganshootingsports interesting! Yeah rugers quality has gone down hill to the point I refuse to buy any of there revolvers anymore. I have 5 ruger revolvers an 1970s black hawk an 80 security 6, 2 90 new vaqueros and a recent super redhawk tablet in 454. Ruger has 3 factories 1 for pistols, 1 for rifles and Shotguns and 1 for revolvers and the quality of the revolver one has declined significantly. I bought a 3in gp100 last year to finally get a new ruger style da revolver and when it came the barrel was so messed up when you looked at the forcing cone there was material hanging out between the barrel and forcing cone. It couldn't hit shit so after 2 cylinders I sent it back. The guy said he tried 3 new barrels a new cylinder but the whole frame wad a lemon so they offered me any gun I wanted as a replacement so I asked for a super redhawk tablet version which is very hard to get and I wanted one originally before I settled on the 460 s&w. It arrived witch scratches and dings on the crown, the cylinder had bad lock up on one of the chambers it's unpolished in alot of areas like all ruger revolvers leaving this pitted metal look. It was very inaccurate where as my 460 s&w is a tack driver. I took a deer st 96 yards with iron sights running down the fence line of our yard the 2nd day I got the 460. Hit him halfway down the body and spun him around. My dad went out and bought a 460 the next day and scoped it and put a bipod on it lol. The 454 redhawk I bought a barrel scope for but it's still sitting in a box waiting to be used. New smiths on the other hand outside of internal locks not being preferred shoot just as good as the originals. I have 8 s&w revolvers and that's by far my favorite brand. The model 27-2 I have is perfection and my fixed sight model 36 and model 10 are tack drivers.

@booliganshootingsports the only issue I've had with smiths is on older used ones eventually the timing can start to go out. Like I have beautiful 1917 from ww1 that started to have late timing and a victory model that's the same way but I took them to my gunsmith and had large hands put on them and tuned up and they run like butter. My model 27-2 I bought was also owned by a gunsmith and competition shooter so it's been tuned and my god it's the smoothest thing I've ever felt

I mean, their design and development team literally told me that they decided to make the factory “barkeep” model because of requests from vendors and customers who had specifically referenced my original build videos. I didn’t claim to invent the snubnose revolver. But I created the modern interest in THIS snubnose revolver. You’d be surprised how often manufacturers are “inspired” by the custom builds out getting internet publicity. Luckily I do publicity and design work with their team now and do contract design work for other manufacturers.

As much as I love a fritz special no company would ever make one. The legal liability is off the charts. Someone one slips when holstering and pushes down the trigger on the edge of the holster boom a foots shot. Now Taurus gets sued.

@@Mibit911 yep sadly true

There’s no law saying you can’t.

Why wouldn’t it be? Not everything dumb is illegal.

It’s an important part of the Fitz Special design. It’s intended for easier access while wearing gloves or when shooting from a coat pocket.

Lmao, so OP was right. Nothing but added danger.

So, you will put a Glock with a 5.5 pound trigger in your pocket with no safety and you have no worries but a .38 snubby without a tigger guard but a 10 pound trigger makes you think you're in danger? Not to mention that thousands of Fitz Special copies have been made and I've never heard of anyone shooting themselves by accident with one. A pocket holster completly covers the trigger so where is the danger?

I’ve done a whole other video on the safety of Fitz Specials. It’s extremely unlikely and requires multiple failures on the part of the shooter to have a ND with one, just like any other firearm.

@@johnelder4273 When someone asks a question, usually, they're seeking to understand. Sarcastic answers that don't actually answer the question, really aren't helpful.

Everyone at the speakeasy better watch out.

With short barrel optimized loads, you can hit 250 ft/lb muzzle energy! It still has a lot of punch.

Unlikely, but someone like Reno May could likely provide more info.