 hey there friends thanks for checking in today we're looking at the new springfield armory hellcat rdp rapid defense package now when the hellcat first came out it was a big hit amongst ccw carriers i mean they they loved the three inch barrel the magazine capacity 11 and 13 rounds tritium front dot u notch in the rear very accurate a reliable handgun i use it as part of my carry rotation and i've always liked the hellcat but then in june of last year they came out with the flat dark earth model this does have an optic here it's an osp optical sight pistol with the 13 round mag inserted but now they came out with the rdp which is definitely different they're expanding the line and can you see what makes it a little different they added a compensator on there all right aluminum compensator very lightweight but the idea here is to disperse the gases when shooting decreasing the muzzle rise we're going to check that out but they also have a 3.8 inch barrel so we've got three inch barrels and now a 3.8 inch barrel which should be more accurate even more i would guess you know the longer the barrel the more accurate it is at least that's what my shooting experience has taught me throughout the years and there are a total of four things that i was able to see with this gun that makes it a bit unique okay so we've got the compensator here 3.8 inch barrel to take this off it has a lever there you just push that lever and twist it off just like that it does come with a thread cap all right so if you don't want the compensator on there you can put that thread cap on there and then you're going with a 3.8 inch barrel very lightweight easy on easy off but the second thing that makes it a bit unique is that they're calling this a gen 2 trigger now i measured the trigger weight with these two in particular that's the same all our five and a half pounds on my scale so i don't see a difference there it's still a flat trigger but what has changed is that that trigger bar safety is wider making it more comfortable on the finger when shooting it doesn't dig into your dig into your finger at all all right so here's what you're looking at with the reset okay i don't notice the difference on the reset but that gen 2 trigger it just it feels more comfortable that's the best way to put it okay and so i imagined with prolonged shooting you would notice the difference compared to the blade that they have in this one okay see i don't have a problem with this trigger at all actually i like it a lot so there's no downside to a wider trigger bar safety another thing is that this one is or has a manual safety well let me go ahead and charge it first it does have a manual safety right there it is ambidextrous all right good for lefties too it is not on all the models that is an option okay and you could sweep down you're good to go with the safety engaged it does lock the trigger does not lock the slide but it will lock up the trigger and there are a lot of people on this channel say i don't want anything to do with the thumb safety but there are a lot of people that do all right so you know whether you want one or not it's available with this model and this will work with the frames in in the slide so you know i can always throw this frame onto this rdp package in i would not have the thumb safety you know not everybody can do that but it is available but one of the things that i find very exciting is this optic this is a hex wasp see that wasp on there it's a micro red micro red dot 3.5 moa nice clear glass and it co-witnesses with that tritium front dot and i tell you i right out of the case i'm pretty sure that this thing is already co-witnessed you know every time i've been playing around quite a bit with it and i pointed something that i look through the sites which you can access the sites through the glass which is a nice touch i really like that but it i'm pretty sure out of the package it's good to go we'll see i'm gonna get it to the range very shortly but it is an aluminum frame and a nice clear dot and i like that now spring this is a springfield product so i don't know if springfield actually produces it or if somebody else does and they brand it under spring i'm not sure about that but it is nice and the dot is always on right so you don't see an on off button or lever or anything like that long battery life and a from what i can tell it's a pretty nice nice clear picture and i guess longevity is yet to be seen but it is is pretty sharp so we've got the new optic the optional thumb safety the 3.8 inch barrel and the compensator everything else is pretty much the same it's you know they did not rebrand the entire gun they have this rdp package and a lot of people are taking interest in it you know a lot like the feedback that i've gotten i posted a pic on instagram yesterday and a lot of people said wow that is pretty cool and i've also read other comments that are out there and a lot of people are taking interest in this they like the idea of a longer barrel with the option of the compensator or just carrying it with a thread cap and they definitely are interested in that now this is going for 299 which is a pretty good deal they also have a larger one called the dragon fly and that that's actually a little bit less expensive like like 250 and i find that to be a phenomenal deal but everything so far is checking out to be really cool i can't wait to get this to the range i'm going to shortly actually i think i'm going friday i'm going to take this to the range and check it out and i'm very interested to see how well this compensator works okay i'm going to do a side by side perhaps some slow motion with this hellcat here and check out the differences but i am expecting big things because i know the hellcat quite well and i think this is going to be just a blast at the range if you like videos like this please subscribe and share i always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys 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