Canik METE MC9 Review: The Micro 9 Canik!

the Canik mete mc9 let's check it out [Music] [Music] thank you can it hit the U.S farmers market in 2012 and since that time it has been just amazing to see what they've done and how responsive they are to Shooters I mean they have made a number of different models and they keep upgrading and upgrading those models one of the things that they were really missing was a micro nine now they have a subcompact that's great but really because of the Sig p365 and the revolution that really put the Farmers Market on notice and now we've seen a lot of different offerings Canik is coming in with their mete mc9 this is a 12 plus one or a 15 plus one magazine capacity and it's a very small package this is an excellent concealed carry option and the great thing about Canik is it comes in at a more reasonable price than its counterparts and yet the quality doesn't suffer and we really appreciate canick USA for sending the mete mc9 for this review guys this is one that I've anticipated for a while [Applause] all right guys like I said this is one that's been very anticipated um again for past three years we've seen glimpses of this handgun and it's great to see it finally imported into the U.S of course it carries along the Canik reputation which is really high and there's a lot of fans out there for Canik so the great thing is about Canik again is the quality versus the price I mean it is like a great matchup because you're getting a really good solid quality firearm typically for less money now this is the mete series which they introduced in their full-size models just a couple of years ago this just happens to be the same type colors but the mate model is more for a combat self-defense type firearm the new rival that's been introduced over the past year is more toward competitive Shooters and so the Canik mete is definitely something that to me this was an exceptional firearm in itself and this is just its little brother this one comes standard with 12 rounds you get a 15 round magazine scene and with the original mate this is just an 18 round mag capacity so you're getting a much smaller handgun and really not losing a lot of the round capacity which is huge and that's one of the big things about these small little micro nines is they're giving us a lot of capacity yet for a really small size let's go ahead and drop our magazine this is a 12 round magazine we do have the finger extension on here it does come just with a flush base plate but I went ahead and added that because I like that on these micro nines and then guns unloaded you also get a 15 round magazine in this small package and of course it'll hang off the end just has the magazine plate that just extends a little bit but it gives you 15 plus one makes a great backup mag we have a black nitride slide it's very well done nicely cut I really like the styling on canix again sometimes when you get the budget Firearms The Styling starts to hurt but can it really does an exceptional job here we have the polymer which is very well done texturing really aggressive but not too sharp and it is all around the firearm including the magazine base pad I mean I thought that was pretty impressive there's no memory pad right here for you know like a lot of guns are doing right now but really it's just a very small gun one thing is the slide stops they're ambidextrous and they're extended didn't have any issues deploying the slide stops when I was shooting you have your magazine release which is steel and it is reversible to the other side so this can be a fully ambidextrous gun one thing too is we have four slot picatinny rail so it's going to give you a lot of options for lights and lasers and it's narrow even though it fits your Picatinny it's not big and obtrusive on the end and then we have Optics ready this is for the shield rmsc footprint and it actually mounts directly to the slide and that's new for Canik and then you still retain your back sight it's just blacked out it is metal and then we have a white dot at the front but you can see it's 1.18 inches in thickness so it's really thin very small the barrel is 3.18 inches in length so it's it's that size it's that sweet spot that gives you really honestly a shootable firearm we have already tested this out at the range and spoiler alert we had zero malfunctions it just ran like a top but honestly it happens to all the Cannons that I take out to the range they are just very reliable now with the back straps and we're going to look at the accessories one of the big things about Canik is they just include a lot of accessories and so we're going to check that out as well now as far as size we wanted to compare it to the original p365. this is what started the whole micro nine experience and I mean you know Sig really hit it out of the ballpark with this gun 10 round magazine and it's empty you can get a 12 round magazine you can get extended magazines for this now a lot of aftermarket support I mean these are just great guns and probably the number one selling concealed carry option out there it is going to be a little bit smaller than the mete and mainly because the barrel is 3.1 inches so you got just a little bit of a hangover not even quite a quarter of an inch and then here at the bottom you definitely have a little bit more but you have 12 in the matte and only 10 in the Sig p365 and then of course if you add on the extension it'll actually ride down lower so definitely a smaller gun I mean by all means but one thing about it is is the price is typically going to run you about a hundred dollar or more difference that's one of the things that Canik really brings to the table is good quality and again a great price we have front and rear cocking serrations even on this really small slide really easy to grab and uh great for press checks texturing on the front of the trigger guard comes down has a nice high undercut a little bit of an undercut right here at the trigger nice grip angle coming up and of course you have two additional back straps a lot of times for your micro nines you don't get that now the trigger is a pre-cocked striker so once you engage your slide it is pre-cocked and so that's one of the reasons why it gives it a really good trigger pull now here we have our safety shoe on the trigger and that means unless you have a full finger pad on the trigger it's not going to fire it blocks it at the back of the receiver and so here with the trigger we have a little bit of take up right here and then we hit a wall and we have some resistance and then a nice break now I'm going to tell you canex the especially the rivals the trigger is absolutely phenomenal this is just a good trigger I mean it is a good solid trigger it's not quite where the Rival is honestly probably not quite where the original mete is but it's still a really nice trigger let's check reset right right there and it actually pushes your finger just a little bit so the reset is really fast tactile and Audible check the trigger pull weight with our lineman trigger gauge and Brownells four pounds 7.3 ounces four pounds 2.4 ounces under the four and a half pound range here at the back you see that red dot and that means that the striker is cocked and this has a pre-cock striker so it gives it that better trigger pull and so when we pull the trigger it just disappears now that does not mean that the gun is loaded or unloaded it just means that the striker is in the [ __ ] position but let's check the loaded chamber indicator we're going to use just a dummy round you'll notice right here there's a little bit of a rise right here at the top and that lets you know it's tactile it actually has a little bit of a red Little Dot right there but it doesn't stick up too high and I've seen some that really kind of ride up high just gives you a little bit of an indication that this gun there is around in the chamber we have Canik mate mc9 now one thing anytime I do a canic review a lot of people come up and say well in Turkey it's actually called Yannick or chanic but here in the U.S this is Canik just like we don't call turkey turkey now while this is a short picatinny rail there are lights that work right away and this is one of the Olight and it's the Baldor s and this is actually adjustable if you have a small compact this thing is the bomb I mean it'll fit almost every picatinny rail that's out there guys having a light option to me in a self-defense situation is very important I don't always carry a light on my firearm for concealed carry but definitely for home defense and this can go both ways and that's one of the great things about this size pistol now I opted not to install the Red Dot sight on here just because I wanted to show it as most people get it out of the box and you know there's so many different choices out there guys but Red Dot does give you some advantages just take some time to train with it and guys it is really fast and really accurate but even if you don't put a red dot on it I love having the capability of having that option if I want it wait on the mc9 one pound 5.2 ounces weight on the Sig p365. one pound 2.6 ounces I want to give a big thanks to fyoki for sponsoring the ammo all made in the USA one of the largest suppliers of ammunition in the country and also we want to thank Lula loaders for loading these magazines super fast saving our thumbs tell you what guys you know it's super small I've been waiting on this for a long time this was kind of introduced in Europe originally and uh didn't know how they were going to do it but I mean these micro knives are great and when can it comes in and really puts out something that is good quality but typically the price is just it's just right the black nitride finish on it the grip has that just that just right texturing the muzzle flip is very mild and for this kind of pistol now I have one of the extended 15 round magazines in it but even shooting it with the standard mag even the little finger groove I mean it just works really well it's very manageable in your hand serrations are good tight I like that accessory rail we're going to do some light testing with it Ambi slide lock it's just a great gun and can it keeps doing that so when this came out I was like okay canix hit the market and guys if you're looking for something that's very reasonable yet has incredible performance you can't beat the mete MC it's just a great shooting little gun telling you guys The Recoil Management on this thing is fantastic and with the capability great concealed carry option it's just like every other County except it's just micro I love it we're going to be testing out some defensive ammunition this is from poke it's through extrema xpt line 9 millimeter Newt Luger and it's 124 grain xtp jacketed hollow point and so we're just going to make sure that it that it's reliable in the mete in C9 you can feel a little bit more power for sure foreign this gun is so manageable even with that self-defense ammunition tell you what guys it's gonna be hard to beat all right for disassembly we're gonna drop our magazine check the chamber the gun is empty there's a little bit of a different process than a lot of the striker fire polymer frame pistols so first thing you do is is Bring Back Your slide about an eighth of an inch to bring back your takedown tabs at the same time and then pull the trigger that just releases the striker now we're going to take the slide and come about just a little bit about an inch and then we're going to just pull straight up and they're corresponding slots in your slide that fit right down on the slide rails and that's what holds it in we have a recoil spring and guide rod and this is dual captive and this is one of the reasons why that The Recoil is just mild and then we have our Barrel which is of course the tilting John Browning design so nothing really exceptional there except that it's just good quality one thing about the frame is the rails are pretty beefy they're pretty thick a lot of times on polymer Striker if our pistols they're very thin and so this gives you just a little bit more surface but overall your locking block you know just the hole in entire pistol I mean it's just a striker fire pistol in the slide trigger safety right here or striker safety you have your Striker here we have the ramp the weight savings through the cuts through the slide you can see them and just very well done there's no tooling marks on here it just has a really nice finish and one of the things about black nitride if you can't really hide imperfections I mean it'll show up we have some scuffing here but that's just from firing and where the barrel has rubbed against the slide but overall that's about all you have to do to fill strips pretty simple so let's go ahead and reassemble drop in our Barrel put in our recoil spring and guide rod and get it against the back of the barrel now one thing you don't want to do is to do like a lot of them and just run it through this slide right here because it will get stuck don't ask me how I know but it will get stuck so make sure that when you put it back you just come just in front of your slide rail right here and you just find it you drop down and it's done very simple very easy and we're back in business now another thing that Canik really does well is they offer a lot of accessories right up front got a nice hard case it is lockable open it up of course we have our firearm we have a holster and cannix come a long way with their holsters some of the originals were paddle designs usable but you know you were typically looking to replace it pretty quickly this is a really exceptional holster this looks like it's injected molded but it's really well done and you have your Clips this goes into a belt inside the waistband it just works really well in fact I was kind of surprised I thought that it might be a little rigid but once I put it on it gave that opening to where I could reupholster without any problem drawing it very easily and it does give you some retention so it kind of locks into place and there is a screw to set that tension I was very impressed actually with this holster it just seemed to fit in the right place drawing it was very natural and uh really guys whether you want to replace this or not this makes a great holster to be able to carry also of course we have our 15 plus one magazine and we have a loader as well you do get that extra base plate it will come with the flat flush base plate and then you can either put the finger groove on here or you can leave it then here at the top we have a very nice punch we have a brush cleaning Rod we have our additional back straps one thing though that's really cool is this small little pistol and this is not mini me this is a actually a tool kit and so if we open up the base plate for the magazine you've got tools that are in here ready to go I mean this is very impressive and so that's one of the things about Canik and two this little red is not necessarily for safety it's for you to know where to put your bit drivers [Laughter] just one of the things about Canik that's always impressed me is they do kind of think of just about everything I mean guys I really don't know of another company that even comes close to putting all this together and then of course you have this sleeve with the owner's manual so and a lot of different material as well and you have your lock the retail price on the Canik mete mc9 is 439.99 of course market price is going to be less it's the way it runs across the board when it comes to the Sig p365 retail is 599.99 so you know you're about a hundred and sixty dollars Less on manufacturer suggested retail price one thing I do want to mention though about the Sig is you do typically get the Sig light night sights and those are really well done so that is one thing you're going to get with the Sig they will have night sight options for the mate and other site options it's one of the things about Canik is that they have become so popular there is a lot of of aftermarket support So guys if you're looking for a micro nine for a concealed carry option the the mc9 just comes in and checks all the boxes 12 to 15 round magazine capacity very slim Optics ready just a very quality firearm the black nitride finish is exceptional great sights and yet you're getting it at a better price but that really shouldn't be the motivation to buy this gun it stands Toe to Toe with any micro nine out on the market and again we really appreciate Canik USA for sending the mete mc9 for this review guys again been waiting a while on this one and I was not disappointed be strong peek of good courage God Bless America long live the republic [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Music] Striker that's why cool this Dwight was ready for a file and let it go forward and then pull the trigger and well that'll help nobody knows what happened I don't even know what happened and so responsive to the shooting public I mean they put together just some stuff I mean it's some cool stuff but it's stuff this to me is right there just right just like the Three Bears this one is just right all the big gun companies within quality and yet you and there are some thinking

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Length: 22min 12sec (1332 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 26 2023