witness barrel

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DWilliams - EAA emailed me before I called them. it did take a few days but they replied. their customer service has improved greatly compared to a few years ago.

update;  he other day, my FFL called me to say that my replacement Witness had arrived! the bad part is I can't pick it up because I'm out of State for a week or so. 

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yesterday I picked up the replacement pistol EAA sent me. it came with a silver Wonder Finish frame and a black slide. ( my other was all silver) not a big deal because it looks really sharp. plus it has a fully adjustable rear sight! (my other two had fixed sights. the sights on this new pistol are of the flat black "target" style that I can barely see. so after the first range session  I put a couple of drops of luminous sight paint on them.  I put a 50 rd box of Magtech factory hardball thru it and it ran flawlessly! then I shot a hundred or so rounds of my 165 gr  reloads thru it and it ran great! at home I field stripped the Witness and cleaned it. today I took it back to my "range" with the sights painted and shot a hundred or so of my 180 gr HST & cast bullets and some more 165 gr. reloads. other than a couple of magazine caused FTFs, it ran flawless. and seeing the sights really improved my accuracy! even though the paint came off the front sight, I could have killed a hog at 25 yds.

this pistol is even better than its predecessor which was an improvement of its predecessor. hopefully this one's frame wont crack like the last two. it is a real great feeling shooter. I am not even going to install the upgrades used in my other Witnesses to help with reliability. this one runs so good stock that I'm afraid to do anything to it!

[Patriot]

I started my love affair with 10mm specifically because of EAA/Tanfoglio. At one time I had 9 tanfoglio 10mm pistols. I started buying them back in 2001. Everything I did was related to the Witness line. Even all of my email addresses had Witness10 or eaawitness in them.

But here's what I learned over time. Every single one of them had issues. Most would jam. When they didn't jam, the slide cracked. Or the frame cracked. Or the mags were trash. I had some that looked amazing and others of the same model that looked like they had cut parts with a hack saw.

After spending THOUSANDS of dollars on these things, I finally gave up. As much I disliked Glocks, I switched to Glock for reliability, and never had a problem. Now I have a couple Springfield's and have never had a problem.