Sold a Rival S to buy a TTi. I shot the Rival S well, but with the weight for me it wasn't very enjoyable. Haven't shot the TTi yet as I'm waiting on the MeCanik MO3 red dot for the first trip to the range. Got the TTi for 800 with some offers available from Academy Sports and the red dot was also a good price so got it cheaper than what the gun and red dot combo goes for.
The TTI is a great polymer gun and give you great recoil control because of compensator. I can understand the weight from a steel frame not being for everyone, but for competition weight is heavily sought after. Hope you enjoy the TTI!
Definitely on my list of work I’d like to get done. I’m waiting until Canik sells barrels for the Rival - S before I do it though. I don’t want to lose the ability to run it in production uspsa competitions.
I have an old Argentine High Power that has less muzzle flip than these. The NRA should devise a mechanism which takes the human factor away from muzzle flip tests.
I always see the tti compared to the rival s. I love my rival and my tti, but is the rival s that much better than every other canik. Like the mete pro and the combat executive?
It depends on what you are looking to get out of the models they offer. The METE is the series below the rival series and offers great things. The biggest thing with the Rival series is the longest barrel length, and was purpose built for competition. While Mete has a completion package, it wasn’t purpose built has a series for competition. The Rival was, I love the Rival series because of the bigger frame and the Steel Frame really earns it stripe for me. Hope that helps!
I was just curious I am newer to firearms and have a question about this. How come people compare the rival s so much to the tti when the tti was a lightweight made gun and the rival s is a steel frame heavy gun without a compensator. How does the rival s get wrapped up in that? Wouldn’t people want to just compare the regular rival to the tti since the tti isn’t steel frame? Then if ppl liked the rival better they would still not have the right trigger a lot of other things and no comp. Moving to a rival s to get all that to be better than a tti still leaves you without things the tti has, and a way heavier gun and people never really mention that and I wonder why.
I have both Rival S versions, the TTI, combat executive, rival, SFX, SFTs, elite sc, etc. the rival s is better than the rest. Saying that, the polymer frames are much less finicky and I have not had to do anything to run almost any ammo on the polys. My SHTF belt is set up for my rival with a light because I have never had an issue with it. Once you get the S dialed in, it is easier to shoot such that you can be a little off with the hand pressure and still follow up quickly and accurately. If I was ranking (extremely large palms so there is bias towards larger grips) it would be rival s, TTI, rival, SFX, sft, elite sc, elite executive (seems like the worst of both worlds for me, small grip but not ccw small gun). Been running my s in LO and TTI in open the last few weeks and the s consistently produces better times (would guess it is even between times TTI and s are first to go into a stage during the period)
@@Jbird18 So the reason why they are compared to each other is because they are at the same price point. This just leads to people asking which one they should get if they had to choose one at that price. The internals are mostly the same on the two, the TTI just has a fluted barrel to pair with the comp from Taran. The triggers and the pull weights are the exact same, the sights are different as the TTI is not adjustable like the Rival S, and the Rival S comes with more optic plates for competition.
Sold a Rival S to buy a TTi. I shot the Rival S well, but with the weight for me it wasn't very enjoyable. Haven't shot the TTi yet as I'm waiting on the MeCanik MO3 red dot for the first trip to the range. Got the TTi for 800 with some offers available from Academy Sports and the red dot was also a good price so got it cheaper than what the gun and red dot combo goes for.
The TTI is a great polymer gun and give you great recoil control because of compensator. I can understand the weight from a steel frame not being for everyone, but for competition weight is heavily sought after. Hope you enjoy the TTI!
Port the Rival-S and it will be best of both worlds. Weight to reduce felt recoil, and port to reduce muzzle flip.
Definitely on my list of work I’d like to get done. I’m waiting until Canik sells barrels for the Rival - S before I do it though. I don’t want to lose the ability to run it in production uspsa competitions.
I have an old Argentine High Power that has less muzzle flip than these. The NRA should devise a mechanism which takes the human factor away from muzzle flip tests.
I always see the tti compared to the rival s. I love my rival and my tti, but is the rival s that much better than every other canik. Like the mete pro and the combat executive?
It depends on what you are looking to get out of the models they offer. The METE is the series below the rival series and offers great things. The biggest thing with the Rival series is the longest barrel length, and was purpose built for competition.
While Mete has a completion package, it wasn’t purpose built has a series for competition. The Rival was, I love the Rival series because of the bigger frame and the Steel Frame really earns it stripe for me.
Hope that helps!
I was just curious I am newer to firearms and have a question about this. How come people compare the rival s so much to the tti when the tti was a lightweight made gun and the rival s is a steel frame heavy gun without a compensator. How does the rival s get wrapped up in that? Wouldn’t people want to just compare the regular rival to the tti since the tti isn’t steel frame? Then if ppl liked the rival better they would still not have the right trigger a lot of other things and no comp. Moving to a rival s to get all that to be better than a tti still leaves you without things the tti has, and a way heavier gun and people never really mention that and I wonder why.
I have both Rival S versions, the TTI, combat executive, rival, SFX, SFTs, elite sc, etc. the rival s is better than the rest. Saying that, the polymer frames are much less finicky and I have not had to do anything to run almost any ammo on the polys. My SHTF belt is set up for my rival with a light because I have never had an issue with it. Once you get the S dialed in, it is easier to shoot such that you can be a little off with the hand pressure and still follow up quickly and accurately. If I was ranking (extremely large palms so there is bias towards larger grips) it would be rival s, TTI, rival, SFX, sft, elite sc, elite executive (seems like the worst of both worlds for me, small grip but not ccw small gun). Been running my s in LO and TTI in open the last few weeks and the s consistently produces better times (would guess it is even between times TTI and s are first to go into a stage during the period)
@@Jbird18 So the reason why they are compared to each other is because they are at the same price point. This just leads to people asking which one they should get if they had to choose one at that price. The internals are mostly the same on the two, the TTI just has a fluted barrel to pair with the comp from Taran. The triggers and the pull weights are the exact same, the sights are different as the TTI is not adjustable like the Rival S, and the Rival S comes with more optic plates for competition.
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