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pmcimagazine.comTRAINING: MANTIS X10 ELITEMANTIS X10 ELITE***PRODUCT WARNING: May Bruise Your Ego Regardless How Well You THINK You Shoot***The very core of shooting well is mastering consistent hand / eye coordination. Seeing the target in relation toyour sights and the smooth, physical motion of pressing the trigger requires the body to act as one well-oiledWith thousands of gimmicks, gadgets,videos and books released with thepurpose of enhancing skills to the nextlevel, its rare one of these training aidsthat truly becomes a game changerin the training world. In this issue welook at a new version of a great trainingsystem PMCI Magazine originallybrought to you a couple of years agoright after the annual industry only event known as SHOT SHOW.Long time readers will remember our discussion of new firearmstechnology on the rise which included the remarkable Mantis XFirearms Training System. Some of you may even still be usingthis system for personal or professional training applications.Regardless, if you are new to the system or a regular user, Iassure you, the all-new Mantis X10 Elite is the next step in thistechnology evolution. Let’s begin with what the system does andwhy it is important to explore its many benefits.Most readers may be familiar with the classic “shootingcorrection” pie chart. Using the shooter’s shot placement whilevisually studying a student’s grip and stance, an experiencedinstructor can diagnose any potential problems. What may slipby is a combination of hard to recognize problems leading tothe student’s particular issues due to maintaining a safe positionwith the shooter, heavy recoil or just minor pressure changesin a grip that may appear proper. When shooting alone or withan inexperienced firearms trainer, these issues can be partiallyinvisible to the untrained eye.What has made the Mantis X Firearms Training System sosuccessful and able stand out from the gimmicks and worthlessgadgets on the market is its focus on the key term of consistency.The core of the Mantis X series of training systems consists ofa small Bluetooth transmitter that attaches to any Picatinny stylerail on a handgun or rifle and links in conjunction with an iOS orAndroid app to a smart phone or tablet. While shooting live fire,dry practice or even airsoft, the Mantis X charts the shooter’s everymovement up to breaking the shot and immediately after thengraphs and scores numerically. Scores range from 1 to 100, withthe latter being the best. The end user can then cycle through theshot to shot data and get detailed diagnostics of exactly what youare doing wrong using NRA approved definitions and terminology.If you are not sure about a specific word or term used, justtouch or click on it and the program will take you directly do thedefinition as given directly from the NRA.NEW AND IMPROVED MANTIS X10 ELITERecently, the Mantis brand decided to build upon is success bymaking some key updates and improvements to their line of40
products. Enter the new Mantis X2, X3, X7 and the flagship, EliteX10 Mantis series. While the lower series are devoted to specificplatforms and more limited abilities, the fully loaded Elite X10 isdesigned to work during both dry practice and live fire using thehandgun, rifle, shotgun, airsoft / 6 mm and even bow platform. TheBluetooth enabled transmitter is much smaller than the original Xdesign with overall dimensions of the sensor unit are 1.3”L x 1”Wx 0.75” H and takes up virtually no room on the gun’s accessoryrail. This allows for zero need for adjustment to standard grip andpresentation. Once the power button is pressed on the sensor, itturns green. This indicates its ready to begin feeding informationto a free downloaded app from the device via Bluetooth. It can bedisplayed on your phone or tablet once paired.Wait, what about guns without rails?? The Mantis X10 devicecomes with a small section of rail called a Universal MagRailadapter that can attach to the magazine’s base pad. Once this isinstalled, Mantis X10 can be mounted as usual. Additionally, forrifles or shotguns without rails, there is BR7 Barrel Mount PicatinnyRail that allows it to be tightened to the barrel to provide the samerail option as factory equipped long guns. The results seen with thismethod for both handguns and long guns have been just as goodas a traditional factory under the barrel accessory rail.Like the original, the Mantis system assigns you a scorebetween 0 and 100 for each shot. (Spoiler alert: Your first shotsusing this system have a good chance of not scoring as high as yourTRAINING: MANTIS X10 ELITEpmcimagazine.com
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