There were only three brand-new, hitherto unseen pistol designs in the mix. Those included the FN 503 and the Beretta APX Carry, which were very similar in style, capacity and form factor. The third was Springfield Armory’s high-capacity, micro-compact Hellcat, which caused a good bit of buzz with its release.
The Beretta APX Carry and the FN 503 were the only single-stack pistols in the compact category. They were also quite similar in design and style, and both ship with a 6-round and an 8-round magazine. Both pistols offer excellent grip texturing and reversible mag releases, and neither incorporated an accessory rail. Because of the similarities, they both received quite similar feedback in key areas. It was the consensus of the group that the grips on both pistols felt a little odd or awkward in the hand because of the distance between the frontstrap and the backstrap and the single-stack form factor.
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