So, who's going to buy themselves a Leishy?

[clueless]

Hmm, crap standard trigger & needing an aftermarket reg isn't what I want to hear about a gun that expensive! saying that i'd have one if I won it in a comp or won the pools.

Well it didn't need the Huma reg, plenty of shots as standard to be honest, but I do like to tinker

Standard trigger is still crap though

[Rob Edge]

They are much admired and very expensive. But if there were a way of making them much cheaper, with a bigger margin, then presumably manufacturers would spring up and do so.

I'm not sure what a clique rifle is. Perhaps you meant niche rifles. Leshiy is not designed as a high-volume mass production jobbie. So the design and production overheads will be high.

There seems to be a niche for a compact, foldable, very light rifle that you can easily stash away whilst out and about, or leave in the boot of your car.

Leshiy appears to fill that niche admirably.

Clique:- a small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group: This more lor less describes all of the bullpup guns on the market. Everyone thinks their choice is best.

[Inspector 71]

So it's £1100 and the trigger is crap? It should be match perfect with more adjustment than a WRC car's suspension. Just a complete rip-off that will still appeal to "those types" at the club.

[clunge]

Innovative guns seem to come up against a lot of resistance from "those types" at the club, and on the fora.

By the way, it's not a bullpup.

I don't have a Leshiy, but can see its attractions for some. Come on guys, we're all shooters. Can't we just see that different folks like different strokes?

[Inspector 71]

I accept and embrace the fact that we all like different pistols and rifles and it's great that we do.

My objection is to the cost/performance ratio of this particular product. Surely we all agree that for £1100, the Leishy should be superb in all respects?

[rhyslightnin]

I accept and embrace the fact that we all like different pistols and rifles and it's great that we do.

My objection is to the cost/performance ratio of this particular product. Surely we all agree that for £1100, the Leishy should be superb in all respects?

Beyond any Shadow of a doubt... It doesn't stop daystate though

[busanga]

link to unboxing ?

[mallyally]

https://youtu.be/DG2kky_O3Rk

[Dragonboy]

Looks good but I can't personally see the point as I have a FF10 which is a take down multi-shot and you don't have to bend the gun in half every time you need to shoot.

[charub]

Beyond any Shadow of a doubt... It doesn't stop daystate though

I should imagine talking to the manufacturer for after sales service is comparable as well. Equally difficult to decipher - one speaks Russian, the other utter gibberish!

[Shed tuner]

Hmm, crap standard trigger & needing an aftermarket reg isn't what I want to hear about a gun that expensive! saying that i'd have one if I won it in a comp or won the pools.

indeed...

[morton28]

is it classed as a pistol?

[clunge]

Ted's Holdover has just published his Leshiy (+Connect) review on Youtube.

Entertaining - as always, he puts a lot of effort in to his reviews - and he also describes the rifle as niche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Yiv-1K_sI

[what barn door]

I could cope with price as you don't get many new guns under 1k nowadays, but I doubt very much that I would cope with folding my gun in half to cock it. I also belive that, it is in no way adjustable, so you could and up with a gun having the power of a pistol or even worse a section 1 firearm, that you can do nothing with. Having said that I have never shot one, maybe the experience makes it worthwhile, I hope those that do have them will enjoy them and tell us more about them.

Finally, not sure how Daystate came into this thread but for the record, I own several MK3's and have never had an issue at all, lucky maybe.

Ian

[oling]

For me, the Leshiy sets out to to be an ultra lightweight, compact and foldable hunting rig that can disappear into a backpack for a few days' trek into the woods, and achieves this goal admirably. There just isn't much out there that can claim the same dimensions, weight and power (in FAC equivalent of course) that the Leshiy can. Of course, there aren't a lot of us in the UK who could claim to use it as such a 'trail' rifle but in the US in particular, I could see this really gaining some traction.

Curiously, the etymology of the word 'leshiy' is a "tutelary spirit of the forests in Slavic folklore" which seems to indicate that the gun was conceived around this idea.