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mustangfreek
8 June 2014, 15:32
Fortis manufacturing is keeping up with the cool stuff, recently they came out with another version of the "Hammer" charging handle and i happened to pick it up and have already been using the nickle one for a little while.

This is my own perspective short review of the fortis CH's compared to some of the others out there. the version that has been out for a while is their nickle boron looking handle, which they say is " a Nickelene finish that’s proprietary to our charging handle and not found in any other CH in the industry."

The newer one is what they call their black teflon coated hammer, which again about all fortis would tell me is " the black is a Teflon blend coating"

Well i have been using the nickle coated one for a little while now and have noticed that it seems to slide better in the upper compared to just phosphate coated CH's as i have a old BCm gunfighter and raptor to compare it to.


As you can see in my pics that the raptor is slightly wider then the hammers, but slightly shorter. the Hammer feels good while racking it as its a sturdy piece and well built.

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z176/mustang91_2007/eec95498-5ca3-474f-be7b-d0c8d42fd4eb_zpsb8a949bc.jpg (http://s194.photobucket.com/user/mustang91_2007/media/eec95498-5ca3-474f-be7b-d0c8d42fd4eb_zpsb8a949bc.jpg.html)

Side by side, you can see the black teflon one has a very metallic look to it compared to the nickle finish hammer


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z176/mustang91_2007/40d053d3-ddc8-4970-a97c-4c366b3ac872_zpsff01a6c5.jpg (http://s194.photobucket.com/user/mustang91_2007/media/40d053d3-ddc8-4970-a97c-4c366b3ac872_zpsff01a6c5.jpg.html)


http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z176/mustang91_2007/c5293fe3-8085-41fa-84b2-cb9247008c2d_zps62f96ac9.jpg (http://s194.photobucket.com/user/mustang91_2007/media/c5293fe3-8085-41fa-84b2-cb9247008c2d_zps62f96ac9.jpg.html)



Ive had the black one for a short time now and from playing around with it and out shooting once, it feels almost as good as the nickle one and still smoother then the raptor and Gunfighter, And again just a nice Ch that has some girth to it and is easy on the hand. Im really liking these so far and only time will tell for the durability of the finish, but looks like it wil llast a while and i'll try to update. But the coating is one thing up on the raptor and others as they slide much smoother, now rainier arms needs to come out with a coated raptor.

All in all, i give the Hammer a big thumbs up and would place it just slightly behind the raptor and it at the top, but now the raptor needs a finish like these also now..[:D]

GOST
9 June 2014, 07:15
A coated raptor would be nice.

mustangfreek
11 June 2014, 00:31
A coated raptor would be nice.

It would, someday maybe .