Description
Meet your next all-purpose gun, the Grand Power K100 chambered for a 9mm Luger. The K100 features a SA/DA trigger mechanism that meets and exceeds the strictest requirements imposed on universal guns with its ergonomics suitable for shooters of practical disciplines as well as for special units of military and police forces.
The K100 design and action have some serious benefits not found on many other higher priced guns. Instead of a tilt-barrel (a modified Browning design), it uses a rotating barrel that disengages a lug on the barrel from a channel in the slide while the bore axis remains in the same orientation to the slide and frame which positions the barrel slightly lower in the frame, putting it closer to the shooter’s hand. This in turn reduces the recoil’s leverage on the shooter’s wrist and makes it easier to control muzzle flip. As a result, the sights get back on target faster, shooting the gun is easier and accuracy is significantly increased compared to many other guns of similar size and caliber.
With the shooter’s comfort factor in mind, this model comes with four interchangeable back-straps of different sizes ensuring the grip size can be adjusted to suit most anyone. And it is easy to do – just pry the backstrap off and snap on a replacement.
Another notable feature of the K100 are ambidextrous controls which have an identical but reversed thumb safety, slide catch and magazine release on both sides of the gun. The only thing that isn’t ambidextrous is the ejection port, but on a handgun, that is generally of no consequence.
The K100 is equipped with a firing pin block drop safety. Not until the trigger is pulled does the firing pin block disengage and allow the firing pin to be driven forward by the hammer to strike the primer. The purpose of this design is to keep the firing pin from being driven forward if the gun is dropped preventing unintentional discharges.
The sights on the K100 consist of a drift adjustable rear sight with two white dots and a pinned front sight with one white dot and the slide has seven sides giving it an almost curved profile when viewed from the rear.
It is made of 34CrNiMo6 steel, which is very nicely machined, polished and finished in a black nitride salt bath that leaves a very hard and corrosion resistant surface. All edges are nicely beveled; the ejection port is large, and there are deep serrations at the front and rear of the slide that offer a solid grip for cycling by hand. The barrel and the frame insert on which the slide rides are made of steel, and while the insert has a black nitride finish, the barrel is left in natural color and is highly polished.
