With a more standard-sized compact, Lone Wolf offered up its new LTD19 V2 for review. It’s a sleek and spacy looking pistol with its two-tone appearance, though a solid back version is available. The LTD19 V2 includes unique and very effective cocking serrations at the front of the slide as well as a V-cut up front that allows the barrel to protrude just a bit for a little visual appeal.
The LTD19 V2 is a Glock clone that incorporates the company’s Timberwolf frame that is thinner than a Glock frame for an improved purchase on the pistol. It also boasts a lower weight overall, thanks to the reduced mass of the slide, which allows the pistol to shoot a bit flatter than a standard Glock. At the bottom of the frame, there’s a magwell installed that has a rather abrupt transition from the grip instead of a gentle slope. A couple of guys, including myself, felt like our fingers were a little cramped while shooting.
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The guys were impressed with the pistol’s accuracy when the shooting began, but the LTD19 V2 was the only pistol in the group that experienced any malfunctions. It had several failures to feed with both magazines. We couldn’t pin down the exact cause but it could have simply been a one-off issue with this particular pistol. It happens and it’s usually a simple fix.
The sample pistol we received had Lone Wolf’s “Melt” treatment, which is simply a milled slide for red-dot optics. The “Melt” versions have the slide drilled out for the specific red-dot you want to use. This treatment adds $100 to the $699 MSRP for the LTD19 V2 but a cover plate does not come with the “Melt” model. The LTD19 V2 ships with standard Glock sights and two Glock factory magazines
I liked the generously sized, reversible magazine release and the design of the slide stop/release, which was easy to actuate, though not ambidextrous. The trigger was a tad bit heavy at an average of 5.75 pounds for the break, but it was quite crisp for a striker-fired pistol. Overall, the LTD19 is a fairly competent package with some good stuff to like provided the feed issues were an anomaly isolated to this one pistol.
