I have a Shadow 2 inbound, should be at my FFL Monday or Tues. A few years ago I shot a SP-01 Shadow as my Production gun. The SP-01 came from CZC with their amazing trigger tune and pre-B disco, but the narrowness of the beavertail always rubbed the web of my hand wrong especially after an extended shooting session. So when the S2?s first came out I sold my SP-01 to another USPSA shooter and played in another division for a while. But now I have a hankering to shoot Prod again and always kept an eye on the Shadow 2 since the larger frame seemed to fit my hand better.
I?ve got a couple friends who compete with the ploymer Q5 match and I?ve shot those guns. It has a nice trigger, probably one of the nicer stock striker triggers I?ve shot. One of them has been talking about getting the Q5 Steel Frame, so if he does I?ll probably get a chance to play with it. But it?s not like I intend to dump my plans to get the Shadow 2 in favor of the Q5 SF. That said, being a factory gun and at 41-42 oz, a person ought to be able to shape shift it into a Carry Optics gun pretty easily without all the dieting we have to do to the Shadow 2 to get it under 45 oz.