Grand Power Ltd (Slovakia) development: a pistol cal. 10x22 Grand Power T10.

T10 represents new generation of the self-defense firearms. It is light, well balanced and high-precision. Regarding quality of manufacturing and materials it has no cpmpetitors both among domestic, and import samples of the self-defense arms, presented now in the Russian weapon market.

Technical description of the Grand Power T10 pistol:

• Calibre: 10х22T
  
  
• The trigger mechanism: SA/DA (single/double action)
  
  
• Trigger effort: ~25/38 N
  
  
• Barrel length: ~100 mm
  
  
• Total length: ~188 mm
  
  
• Height: ~136 mm
  
  
• Thickness: ~36 mm
  
  
• Capacity of a demountable double-row magazine: 10 (17, 20)
  
  
• Weight without magazine: 700 g

Grand Power, s.r.o., registered in Banska Bistrica town in Slovakia, was founded on May, 2002. Its President and the Chief Designer - Jaroslav Stanislavovich Kuracina - has started to study designing of the firearms in 1989 in Military Academy in Brno, Czech Republic. Then he served as the armourer in Slovak army till 1996. That's why he knows well Russian language and till now cordially recalls those times of the Warsaw Pact when brothers-Slavs were comrades in arms.

All this time Jaroslav has been working on creation of his own pistol. In 1994 there were first sketches of a design of a pistol, in 1996 the patent for a design of a pistol was received, and in 2002 Mr. Kuracina founded Grand Power company and has started manufacture of K100.

K100 has won huge popularity, stood the most severe tests, it has been accepted on arms of Slovak army and police; besides it is widely used in various special divisions, and also by sportsmen - by marksmen of IPSC, IDPA leagues. Now it is purchased by more than ten countries from different continents.

 
 
Tests.

Excellent qualities of the pistol are the result of unique design of locking system which is based on rotation of the barrel conducted by a perpendicular protuberance in a frame. This design is protected by the international patent. The barrel of the weapon with the turned operating groove during unlocking-lock-out at shooting has no vertical moving, it only revolve there-here on 42 degrees on its axis, following the form of an operating groove and a protuberance of a frame. Such decision does not have the constructive excesses similar to protuberance in Mauser M2 or such parts of a design as the locking cam in Beretta Cougar which at dirtying or mechanical deterioration causes failures and consequently is unreliable. On the contrary, at an operating condition of pistol K100 there is a self-cleaning of active contact area during unlocking. This feature guarantees to the weapon high reliability at shooting even if the internal mechanism is dirtied owing to insufficient maintenance or conditions of operation, use of poor-quality or improper gunpowders.

In 2006 there was more compact updating of K100 which has received designation P1. The slide and barrel P1 - is shorter, that does the weapon more compact in comparison with the standard size, with the same capacity of magazine and convenient handle. The total length of standard model - 202,5 mm, and compact model - 187,5 mm. The height without magazine - 133,5 mm, and the form of facets of a slide is convenient for correct pointing during an intuitive aiming. The maximal width of a frame - 35 mm, and the handle thickness - 29 mm. The weapon, having kept high capacity double-row magazine, also is suitable for marksmen with a small palm.



On the basis of model P1 Mr. Kuracina also has created a gas pistol with a possibility of shooting by traumatic cartridges specially for the Russian market. The pistol has received factory designation T10. This weapon has very unusual history of creation. For the first time in the world the designer of the weapon for self-defense was working in close contact to the Russian consumers of a complete product - the most usual ordinary buyers. Since March, 2007 when the designer has addressed to the future buyers on the largest Russian Internet-forum on weapon subjects, has passed only some months, but whatever... Older readers, probably, remember stories with the continuation, published in newspapers and magazines which were written gradually, on the basis of letters from some participants, under the general edition of known writers. Same here: during the short period a very specific product - the pistol was created.

T10 - the weapon working due to recoil of a free slide, the scheme of work is different from combat P1 because of other type of ammunition. The main advantages of the pistol T10 - high accuracy, durability and reliability - are inherited from the predecessor. The pistol has extremely comfortable recoil that allows to conduct aim fire with high-speed series of 2-3 shots.

The up-to-date construction materials are used in the pistol, they allow to reduce weigh of the pistol considerably. The frame on which slide moves during shooting and the firing mechanism are mounted on the ergonomic plastic handle (polyamide GF30). A recoil spring rod, safety device, trigger and safety staple of the trigger are also made of plastic. Metal details are processed using Tenifer QPQ technology which gives the weapon evenness of work, the best stability to deterioration, greater durability and good resistivity to become rusty. Process consists of nitrocarburizing, oxidation cooling and combinations of polishing and oxidation. The slide is made of high-quality chrome-nickel-molybdenic foundry, same, as on models Glock from the Belgian supplier FN Herstal, however tempered up to greater values of hardness approximately 40-42 HRC and subjected then to cementation, oxidation and nitration on Tenifer QPQ technology up to values 750 HV. All details of a pistol are made with the highest accuracy.

All controls a pistol are two-sided, adapted both for the right-handed person, and for the lefthander, including a safety device, removal of slide from a slide catch and the magazine release button. A handle is very ergonomic, it is made of the polyamide GRAM-FORCE 30 reinforced by steel to create light and strong design. A coarse-grained surface and hollows improve holding of the arm even with humid hands. The trigger mechanism - ordinary double/single action, and length of pressing of repeated trigger is astonishingly small, that does T10 very fast for the following shots after the first one in a series. A magazine with a plastic heel - 10 rounds cal. 10x22T. New frame Mk6 with the improved incision and the modified ergonomics handle makes the pistol more adapted for all types of a palm. Universal tactical lath MIL 1913 Picatinny on which it is possible to fasten a small lamp, laseraim or other equipment, is inserted in a forward bottom part of a frame. The pistol is adjusted at a factory on a distance in 10 m so that the centre of impact corresponds to a point of aiming. Horisontal correction can be made by displacement of a rear sight and then its fixing. Vertical correction is carried out by replacement of a rear sight higher or lower.

T10 shows good results at instinctive shooting due to the successful form of the handle, its angulations, the form of the trigger guard and the form of the frame. It is very important in real situations of self-defense...

Assembly-disassembly of T10 practically is completely similar to corresponding operations for combat К100 or P1, except for removal of a barrel. Incomplete disassembly: to take out magazine from a pistol and to be convinced, that in a cartridge-chamber there is no cartridge (1). To pull down the trigger guard (2). To take aside the slide back keeping trigger guard in low position(3). Then to pull a slide up, deducing it from leading grooves of the frame and to remove it onward(4). Procedure of assembly is carried out in reverce order.

 
 
Incomplete disassembly.

T10 - new generation of the self-defense arm. It's light, well balanced and accurate. Regarding quality of manufacturing and materials it has no cpmpetitors both among domestic, and import samples of the self-defense arms, presented now in the Russian weapon market. During its creation computer designing was widely used, and manufacture is organized on the basis of the machine processing centers with CNC model Hyundai from KOPS Limited and own 5-coordinate submachine gun of model Hermle 600 U. At present 5 processing centers with CNC are involved in manufacture, quality of products corresponds to ISO 9001/2000.

The pistol has also necessary differences from fighting sample P1 to meet the requirements of the Russian Law regulating firearms, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Health - in the form of special ledges (pins) inside of the channel of the barrel, the milled grooves on a barrel and a cartridge-chamber, the barrel is nonremovable.

For pistols Grand Power there are a wide range of accessories by means of which it is possible to make the sample more convenient for any specific purposes: sports aim adaptations, down to completely micrometric rear sights and the front sights, special holsters, details of non-standard external execution and many other things.