CZ P10C Ported Aimpoint COA Gun Review

The CZ P10C ported with the Koa. Let’s check it out. (Available Here)

 

Guys, Aimpoint was the first company to come out with a red dot sight, and since that time they have developed a lot of different red dots and micro red dots, and today we’re going to take a look at something that has really hit the market by storm, and that is the Koa series.

This is really an incredible optic. We’re going to get into a lot of the details. It does have the A-cut, so it’s a very secure mounting system, but then you’re going to put it on the CZ P10C, and this is the ported model.

I’m going to tell you guys, the P10C has been one of the best striker fire pistols out there on the market, plus it has one of the best triggers, and then when it’s ported, this thing shoots incredibly flat, so we have done a review on the P10C ported, and guys, there’s something about this handgun that just really shoots extremely well, extremely flat, but then you add that Koa system, and you have a dynamic duo, so we’re going to look at all the details, and we really appreciate CZ for sending the P10C ported with the Aimpoint Koa, and we’re going to check it out. CZ P10C ported Koa. The Koa is the Aimpoint, and it is the new design that’s really built like a tank, and then you pair it with the CZ P10C ported, and it makes a great combination, and again, this has been a proprietary Glock, so now we’re starting to see this come out with other handguns.

One thing about the CZ P10C is that port is phenomenal, and we did a full review on the ported model. I’ll have it annotated above, and it still comes with no port, so you can decide what you like. In fact, here is the original P10C, and this is one when it first came out.

There are some differences. They have made some improvements to the slide, and of course, this one was not optics-ready when it came out, and of course, now we’ve gone to the full extent of the Aimpoint Koa, but this is an excellent handgun, and one of the best triggers of a polymer striker for our pistol out on the market, so we’re looking at a base first for the Koa that’s just tremendous. Now, let’s go ahead and check to make sure the gun’s unloaded.

We’re going to drop our 15-round magazine. You do get two magazines with the gun. Check the chamber, and it’s empty, but we also want to talk about the Aimpoint Koa.

Now, again, Aimpoint was the first company to invent, actually, the Red Dot, and since that time, they are really a premium Red Dot company. I mean, they make really tough, built up, very sturdy, and then with this A-cut, it just locks it in. In fact, you’ll see this plate on the back, and this actually locks in the back.

It wedges into the front, and it takes all the pressure off the sight, and that’s the big deal. Now, we took this out, and we beat it, and we racked the slide with it. I mean, we put it on tables, on drums.

We were just beating the fire out of it just to see if we could get any shift, and it’s locked solid. It was locked solid then, and that was before we had range day. When we went to range day, it just stayed right there in place, and so this is really an exceptional mount.

In fact, it’s probably one of the most secure mounts that’s out there. We’ll go into some of the details when we look at it. We’re going to dismount it.

I’m going to show you what’s underneath, but that A-cut is really top-notch. Now, we’ll give you one con, and we’ll talk about that later, but this has proven itself to be great. Now, the Aimpoint Acro had some issues, and there was some lens cracking and a few things that happened, and so the Kowa is a definite upgrade, and you’ll notice how thick it comes up, and it’s very narrow, so you’re getting a taller sight picture, and yet it’s very carryable, and that’s one of the things that Aimpoint was trying to achieve with the Kowa.

Really nice hard anodized finish. You have your battery tray here, and we’ll talk about the battery. There are some things about this that you need to know about, and then we have our windage, and then we have our elevation, which is on the side.

A lot of times, elevation’s straight down, and then we have offset controls. I like these because sometimes when I’m just reaching and I feel a button, I don’t know if it’s positive or negative, and so this way, I know that as I go up, I’m positive. I come down, it’s negative.

It’s clearly marked, and it’s a nice pad, and it just has a nice design to it. I mean, the cuts in it, which just alleviate some of the weight, and then the shape comes back at a slight angle, but right here, as you bring this back, I mean, you can rack the slide with this without any worries. I mean, this thing is locked solid.

Now, these have been completely sealed. They’re IPX7, which means they’re submersible with the Kowa, and it’s one thing with the enclosed emitter is that you have that lens on the back to protect any debris that might get into the site itself, and these are sealed, and then, of course, they’re multi-coated, and Aimpoint just does it right. Now, this window is actually 15 millimeters by 15 millimeters, and again, it gives you that taller window, 50,000-hour battery life.

Now, the Kowa is made from 7075-T6 aluminum. It is hard anodized finish, and it has those Aimpoint markings, but this is really going to give you an excellent optic that’s ready for abuse. Now, your three-dot sites do co-witness with the Kowa, and it is a 3.5 MOA, so we’re going to look at the dot, and we’re going to kind of focus it in, but this gives you a great site picture.

It just lines up with your sites. You don’t have to have suppressor height sites or really high sites to be able to co-witness with that red dot, and that’s one of the beauties of having this direct mounted and lower into the slide. First thing is, guys, is this is a fiberglass reinforced polymer frame, and so it has a lot of strength to it.

While it’s smooth and it’s comfortable to the touch, it’s not rigid, but yet it has a little more firmness than some of the polymers that I’ve dealt with in the past. The slide serrations have been improved. They are deeper, and they’re actually less serrations, and then we have the serrations over the top.

With a ported model, we have a dovetail, and with the standard model, the site or the front site goes into the front, and then there’s a pin that runs through it, and you can see this really wide port. This is extremely effective. It is a large and inch-large port.

It pushes those gases up, and of course, we’re going to shoot this side by side with a standard CZ75, which we did with the original P10C ported, and I can tell you right now, it is a significant difference. We have a four-inch barrel. It is cold hammer forged, which means that it has a lot of strength.

It will remain accurate a lot longer, and we do have now a loaded chamber indicator, which we didn’t have with the original, and we’ve gone through, again, a full review of this handgun. We will disassemble it just so I can show you how that works, but this barrel is actually 10% heavier than the original P10C, and so we’ll look at that when we break it down, and really, these luminescent sights are from the P09 Nocturne, so these are very premium sights, but one big thing about this handgun is the safety, and it has a firing pin block. It has a trigger safety, and it has a trigger bar safety, so this is going to be drop safe.

You’re going to have to mean to pull the trigger when you fire this handgun, and again, the trigger is just exceptional. Now, it does come with a torque wrench, and one thing that they recommend is never to use the short end because you can really get a lot of torque with that short end, and you’re only supposed to lock this down 4.4 foot pounds, so as we open it, and we’re going to, again, do it with the long part, it seals very well, and then we’re going to take our screw out. Now, the tray is close down, so you’re going to need a little something just to give you some help.

If you can get your fingernail up under here or here, it will come out, so here we have our battery tray. Negative is on top, and then, of course, it just says positive. This is a 2032 battery, and these are very common for different optics and different things that we use, so this is, again, something that you can get pretty readily, and again, it is a 50,000 hour battery life, which equates to five years, but for me, I go ahead after about six months, and I change my batteries out just because I want to be on the safe side, then again, it just goes straight in, and you put on your screw, and I want to reiterate to use that long end only, which the same tool actually works for your windage and for your elevation, so keeping these in your range bag is important anyway, but with the Koa, this really is going to be mandatory.

Now, if the site gets wet, you don’t want to take out your battery tray. Go ahead and wipe it down. Let it dry for a little while before you change anything out because you don’t want any water to get into the battery compartment.

Now, we’re going to remove these back screws first, and this plate comes off, and then it comes right out, so here, once you get the screws removed, it just comes right out. These are loctited in, and they’re very sufficient screws, and then we just take the Koa right off. Now, you’ll notice that there are channels, and this fits into the channels of the A-cut, so this is going to give you a very locked down system, so this locks into this front channel, so you put it here, bring it down, and then you can add your plate, and you’re back in business, but it gives it a very strong platform, and again, this takes all the pressure off of your site.

There are no screws. There’s no mounting. It just snugs it in.

It locks it in, and when you’re remounting, there is an arrow pointing to the site, and here we have it remounted, and again, it’s just locked solid. Now, as far as the trigger, it comes in flat face, and we have our trigger safety right here, so we’re going to bring it down, and it comes right at a 90 degree angle, not quite, and then a nice crisp break. Reset right there.

Very fast reset. Guys, the P10C has just one of those triggers that’s just one of the best in the industry, and when it comes to trigger pull weight with our Lyman trigger gauge from Brownells, four pounds, five ounces, four pounds, 3.5 ounces, and the weight on the CZ P10C Koa, 26.83 ounces. Big thank you to Fiocchi for sponsoring our ammo, all made in the USA, one of the biggest suppliers of ammunition in the country.

Also, we appreciate Lula Loaders for sending the Maglula. Just makes things a lot faster. Aim point, again, just being the first to make the red dot, and with the Koa system, man, it is locked in, but one of the things about the Koa is it’s tall, but it’s thin, so you’re really able to find that dot in a hurry.

I love the system. I mean, it is rock solid on the handgun. Now, make that with the CZ P10C, and you have yourself a great package.

One of the things about Koa was that it was first exclusive with Glock, and then they started releasing other gun manufacturers that can use the Koa design. The A-cuts are just, again, they’re solid, they’re locked in, but what I love, though, is with this P10C, it’s comped. This is a great package, and one thing about the P10C is the trigger is just excellent, and the texturing.

It doesn’t have just that laser texturing. It’s got the pyramids, and it really locks in. Low bore axis, it co-witnesses with your sights, so it’s just an excellent option, a great combination.

You just bring that sight up, and you immediately see it. That’s if you’re having a hard time finding that red dot, which a lot of people do at first. This is going to allow you to really kind of get on that dot, and I love it.

I love the combination. Koa’s great. P10C’s great.

I know I’m a little bit over the top with it, but it’s really a great system, and that thing shoots smooth. I love that. I love the P10C, and I’m a big CZ guy, but that ported, that’s just super smooth, and then the aim point, usually sometimes I have trouble when I pull up to find that red dot immediately, but with this aim point, I feel like it’s just automatic.

I just pull it up, and just find it. It’s funny, because it’s a narrow sight, but it’s a little bit taller. Yeah, it’s very narrow, but it still feels big, but not too big, which I love.

After disassembly, we’re going to drop our magazine, check the chamber, gun’s empty, point in a safe direction, pull the trigger. Pull back on your slide just a little bit, about a quarter of an inch, and then pull down on both takedown tabs, and then you just pull it straight up. We have our recoil spring and guide rod.

It is polymer, but it has that flat recoil spring that really aids in recoil mitigation. Then we have our barrel. Now, this barrel is thick.

Of course, you can see the really nice deep dish crown, and of course, with the large ample porting that matches up with the slide. Fit and finish is excellent, which is on par with CZ. We have our locking block.

We have our rails back here. This is standard Striker Fire polymer frame pistol. Here we have the standard CZ P10C barrel, which is fairly thick and very sturdy, but it comes in at 10% more with the ported barrel, and it just gives it a little more strength.

The original model, it wasn’t crowned, and so this is definitely an upgrade, but both are cold hammer forged, and there is nothing wrong with the P10C. It is excellent. Ported just helps with recoil mitigation.

Then for reassembly, we’re going to drop in our barrel, just in reverse order. That barrel’s so thick, it just is funny. Put in our recoil spring and guide rod, bring it back over your frame, and magazine, test for function, and we’re back in business.

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I really wanted to show this because there are some pretty cool things here. Of course, you get your two extra back straps. That’s pretty typical, but you do get a cleaning kit, and this has rods, which are very important in case you have some kind of squib or you need to get some brass out.

I love to have rods at the range, and this is a full kit. Then also, we have extensions for extra rounds, so you can put two extra rounds, and this gives you two extensions to put on both magazines. Also, what I thought was really cool is they have a snap cap, and they have these small little rubber inserts, and you put them in, and then you can dry fire your handgun.

Just gives you a little better preservation to your firing pin, but honestly, you can dry fire this without it. Then you get your aim point, COA, little instructions, and a small bag. One thing you don’t get is a cover plate for the COA A-cut, but honestly, I don’t know why you don’t want to take this off.

Now, you get a case, and it’s CZ. It’s one of those semi-hard cases. I love these.

They’re very useful. Double zippers. You even have a lock on it.

Here, we have the handgun and close foam padding, but you can go with the full-size model as well. It even has room for your COA. We have, again, our cleaning kit, our extra mag, and we have our owner’s manual, and all the accessories that we showed you earlier are tucked away in this zippered compartment, and you have mesh.

So, a very well-done case, and I really like that, better than a box. Now, the MSRP, $1179. The MSRP on the standard P10C ported is $549.

So, the Aimpoint COA definitely brings the price up, and that’s typical. This is a premium optic, and with the system that’s built into it, that’s the price that we’re seeing. Of course, market price is typically going to be less, but when it comes to the standard P10C, they’re running $499 optics cut or $449 with no optics cut.

So, it gives you a number of different options, plus they have the full-size, the subcompact. The P10C has really been one of those handguns that has been very popular on the market. Of course, the CZ75 is really their flagship model, and it’s a double single action, and we’ve done a lot of reviews on them, but this is more of a modern, carryable, very slim handgun.

So, what are some pros and cons? Well, it’s portable, it’s concealable. One thing about the COA, again, is that it doesn’t come off the side. It is very narrow, and it just gives you that concealed carry size, and yet it’s an enclosed emitter.

It has the A-cut design, which is going to be super tough, bulletproof, and this makes a great pairing. I love the ported version. It’s a significant difference over the standard version, but if you don’t like ported, you can go with just the standard.

The COA, I mean, it, again, is just one of those world-class optics, but the negative is, is it going to run a little bit more. Part of that has to do with the A-cut that you put in the slide, and that is proprietary, and one ding I’ll give it is that if you want to take off the Aimpoint, you’re not going to be able to put a different optic on here unless it’s A-cut compatible, and we’ll see how that market goes, but this is really a dedicated handgun to the Aimpoint COA, but the Aimpoint COA is going to be very super strong. It does co-witness.

The texturing’s excellent. I mean, again, the P10C has proven itself, but with this system, you’re really getting a world-class handgun, and then, again, with the ports. So, again, a lot of options with the P10C.

The COA version, one beautiful thing about it is that it comes with the optic already mounted, and the cut’s already ready to go. So, guys, a dynamic duo. You put the P10C ported with the COA system, and you have something that’s really effective, and with the COA, it’s just mounted so solid, and you still have that large window in the vertical, but yet in the horizontal, it’s really thin, and it’s really great to find that red dot, and still to conceal carry, and then with the P10C ported, this keeps the muzzle just really flat.

It gives you that great trigger, and it just makes a great pair, and, again, a big thank you to CZUSA for sending the P10C ported COA for this review.

 

Be strong. Be of good courage. God bless America. Long live the republic.

 

-Don