I don’t keep up, at all, with the latest firearm hardware and when I got an email from Mantis asking if I wanted a free TitanX to review I almost deleted the email without looking into what it was. I had never heard of Mantis. I am so glad I took a few seconds to look into them and conclude it was a real product and not a malicious link I was clicking on.

There were no conditions on my review. Just here it is and tell people what you think of it.

The TitanX is a Glock like training pistol with a built-in laser and rechargeable (USB-C) battery. It comes with a really nice case, and two properly weighted magazines. Surprising to me there is an app for your phone. I was skeptical of this. What are going to do with an app and your training pistol? Oh… Wow! It is amazing. The phone app provides all types of drills, watches your (slightly specialized) target, keeps score, and will playback the gun movement before and after your trigger pull. It is AWESOME!

You can purchase the targets or just download and print them yourself from here.

You don’t have to use the app. And I usually don’t. It takes a little time to set up the target, mount the phone on something steady, and point the camera at the target. Most of my use has been just straight out of the case with targets from JV-Training (my son-in-law).

Here is a 15-second video of how I use it:

The gun and trigger is nothing like my STI 2011. But because with this tool, dry fire is now fun I don’t mind that it doesn’t feel like my match gun. I almost never did any dry fire before getting the TitanX. I would rather go to the range and shoot a few hundred rounds of .22 in a conversion kit for my 2011. The trigger resets and feels, pretty much, like a striker fired gun trigger.

To see the app in action, (very cool) watch this video. He is set up for far better videos than what I could do in a month:

Visit their website and learn more about this awesome training aid.