With the only very slightly extended magazine inserted, capacity bumps up to 12+1 rounds and my pinky just barely has a home on the frontstrap. With its flush-fitting magazine, the CSX holds 10+1 rounds of 9mm. Perhaps that’s the reason S&W added a trigger blade safety to the CSX.
Compact 9mm comparisons manual#
There’s really no material difference between it and many of the striker-fired competition that lack any sort of manual safety.
Compact 9mm comparisons plus#
Frankly, with how incredibly light, short, and crisp striker-fired triggers have become (S&W’s own Shield Plus is a great example of that) I can’t think of any particularly strong argument for not carrying the CSX with its manual safety off. In a modern departure from the norm for hammer-fired guns, the Smith & Wesson CSX also incorporates a trigger blade dingus safety lever flipper doohickey. This means the user can insert a loaded magazine and rack the slide to chamber a round with the safety on “safe” the entire time. Unlike many pistols with a manual thumb safety, the CSX’s slide can be manipulated with the safety engaged. Popping the safety back up off of its “fire” detent and onto its “safe” detent takes a little more intent and pressure, which is exactly what you want. While the lever is placed fairly far toward the rear of the diminutive gun, if you simply flip your thumb down as you would on a full-size 1911 or similar, you’ll snag the safety behind your thumb knuckle and it’ll snick cleanly downward to the “fire” position. The ambidextrous control is mirrored on both sides of the pistol and is easily flipped off with a standard thumb stroke. your love handles or belly).Īs a single action only, hammer-fired pistol, the CSX has a manual thumb safety as you’d expect.
Compact 9mm comparisons skin#
It provides a fantastic grip, but won’t tear up your bare skin too badly (e.g. I really like Smith’s grip texture a lot. With a little tool designed to compress the mainspring, the backstrap is quickly and easily popped off the CSX and can be exchanged for others of varying size and thickness. One unique feature with the CSX, something I don’t believe another micro compact pistol offers, is swappable backstraps. It has more smooth surface area than the Shield Plus does as the rest of the CSX’s aluminum frame is smooth. That makes it slightly larger than the SIG P365, for example, but still within the popular micro compact and even perhaps pocket pistol size range.Ī sandpaper-esque pebble texture is molded into the polymer grip inserts of the CSX. I have no real clue how that’ll play with the hammer-fired metal-framed pistol crowd.Īnyway, compared to the M&P9 Shield Plus the CSX is effectively identical in length (6.1″), width (1.12″ across the controls), and height (4.6″), and is only 1.6 ounces heavier (19.5 oz).
That said, the frontstrap and backstrap inserts are polymer and that’s most of what you feel when you grip the CSX. I know there are many dapper gentlemen out there who prefer an external hammer, and I’m fairly sure the vast majority of them also want a metal frame so it was wise of S&W to machine the CSX’s frame from aluminum. To my knowledge, the Smith & Wesson CSX is the first pistol in this micro compact size category (see P365 vs Hellcat vs MAX-9 vs Shield Plus) to combine a 10+ round capacity and an external hammer.
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