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Smith & Wesson announced the release of the new CSX E-Series 9mm pistols. The CSX E-Series are micro-compact pistols with aluminum alloy frames. Smith first released the CSX in 2022, and they’ve had a bunch of changes since then, bringing us to the latest E-Series.
The CSX E-Series
The new CSX E-Series guns are available in four configurations. They’re available in 3.1-inch or 3.6-inch barrel options. Within those options, you can choose models with 12, 15, and 17-round magazines or 10-round models for ban states.
The pistols still use aluminum frames and have stainless steel slides with an Armornite finish. They come with white 3-dot iron sights and are optics-ready. The E-Series uses the RMS-C/507K optics footprint. They also have what Smith & Wesson calls the “ClearSight cut” designed to divert gasses away from the optic lens.
I’ve shot a lot of optic-mounted pistols in recent years but haven’t seen that in operation. I’m curious how that works compared to an optic-mounted pistol without it.
The E-Series comes with a new modular grip adapter with interchangeable backstraps that lets users size the grip to their hands. Controls on the E-Series guns are ambidextrous. Smith has enhanced the trigger on the new guns as well.
They say it’s lighter, cleaner, and has an improved reset. It’s worth noting that the CSX pistols are single-action only. That’s unusual outside of the 1911 world but S&W has said their engineers were able to make the pistols smaller by using a single-action only mechanism rather than a striker-fired system. MSRP for any of the CSX E-Series pistols is $699.00.
S&W CSX E-SERIES 3.1 INCH SPECS:
- Caliber: 9MM
- Size: Micro-Compact
- Width: 1.12 inches
- Length: 6.1 inches
- Height: 4.6 inches
- Weight: 19.7 ounces
- Capacity: 12,15,17 or 10 for ban states
- Action: Single Action
- Barrel Length: 3.1 inches
- Grip: Polymer
- Sights: White Dot
- Optics Ready: Yes
- Safety: Thumb Safety
- Color/Finish: Black
- Barrel material: Stainless Steel
- Frame: Aluminum
- Number of Magazines: 3
- MSRP: $699.0
Where To Buy
For more information on the CSX E-Series, or any other Smith & Wesson products, check out www.smith-wesson.com.
It’s nice to see something that isn’t plastic.
I have a question, why are all the new pistols slides square?
Used to be rounded, like 1911’s and Beretta 92′ ect.
Seems to me compact guns should be more round then gouging square.
Shoe box on top of a shoe box inside a plastic holster,,,blech
Square slides are associated with barrels that lock into a broadened ejection port, as opposed to using barrel lugs (1911) or a tilting block underneath (M9 / 92).
It may not be clear from the photos, but the CSX’s is much slimmer and rounder than e.g. a G19’s.
>>> why are all the new pistols slides square?
Quick version:
1) Less machining required.
2) Easier to mount optics to.
This model was an overpriced flop. Why invest?Why not work on something lower priced and what people want. This is why us gun owners by imports.
I can only speak for myself. I have always wanted something that combined 1911 ergos / trigger / safety placement, but with subsequent advances in other areas rather than an exact replica of all the superseded first-generationisms that nobody incorporates in a new handgun design anymore.
Admittedly the trigger was pretty bad out of the box, but I rolled the dice on being able to work on it, and it ended up being super-intuitive. Now it’s better than any factory 1911 trigger I’ve ever tried, so it’s like having a 2011 (but without a morbidly obese grip or rare, expensive, unreliable magazines) for less than half the price. The only problem was that the grip was short for my big hands – and now they fixed that, and I’m glad. I don’t think a longer slide / barrel and a plastic mag-sleeve required a huge investment.