I have to say this is probably as good as it gets.
With winter in full swing here in New England I've been buying a lot of pistols. Although there is a lot to like about each one there is almost nothing to dislike when it comes to the CP88c.
The Competition model has a permanent 6" barrel inside a compensator looking end. I bought the blue without the wood grips. It is all metal except for the plastic grips. The bluing is polished the magazine is metal and the trigger is wide with the pull acceptable.
Aside from the somewhat heavy trigger I can't seem to find nothing but good things to say about this gun. The aim from it's Walther rifled barrel is excellent and consistent. The rear sight is adjustable while the front a ramp.
I did of course chrony it and the results were as published or better.
The heaviest pellets I shot were the 7g RWS Hobbys that crossed the chrony at 529.3.
Surprisingly the 6.5g Beeman lazers were only 457.9 fps and of course I had to fire some
5.1g Crosman Silver Eagle Wads that produced 553.4 fps.
The biggest surprise were the 8.26g Meisterklugelns at an average of 416.9fps. I expected less.
So for a gun that the factory claims 425fps I think is pretty honest. It's beautiful to look at heavy in a good way and shoots as straight as they come. I don't own a Smith & Wesson yet but I'll guess the only rec pistol as accurate or possibly more would be the S&W 6" revolver. Definetly when it comes to the S&W 8".
At close to $200 a pop I'm going to have to tone down my weekly purchases to maybe monthly. But it's worth it.
