The Mantis X takes the form of a tiny black box with a few lights, a button, and a micro USB port for charging. It’s designed to mount to any handgun with a Picatinny rail. It’s small enough that it fit onto my Springfield XDS, though I did have to mount it backwards.
That didn’t cause any problems because the device can account for the backwards orientation. It also takes into account whether you’re left handed or right handed. It can even track dry fire exercises in addition to live fire training.
In my time at the range, the Mantis X seemed to be pretty accurate. The hits on the paper matched up pretty well with where the Mantis X guessed I was hitting. The score for how much movement I had before each shot seemed pretty accurate too.
At one point I purposely put way too little finger on the trigger to see if the Mantis X would catch the problem. It did. It could tell I was pushing all my shots to the left. It recommended I use more trigger finger.
Not bad.
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