The cups are slim, the design is water resistant and it has “auto-shut off” capability.

I elected to use the Galco Corvus holster. Arriving with belt slots for OWB carry, I switched it to IWB with the included loops. I didn’t have an IWB for the Echelon and the DeSantis Speed Scabbard will work well for OWB casual concealment.

I wish I could find the IWB loops for the GLOCK 43x-fitted Corvus; the Kydex holster works very well as an IWB, as I found out working with the Echelon.

Pleasant to shoot, with superb sights, an okay-service trigger, and lots of capacity, the interface to this user was problematic; likely a change of backstraps or fiddling with the backstraps/frame modules will sort that out. Below, the Galco Corvus kydex holster was converted to IWB for the shooting test; it worked very well.

For the initial shooting test, I purchased a 200-pack of Winchester “Practice and Target” 115 grain FMJ from Academy Sports + Outdoors. I started at fifty yards with five singles from ready. I followed that with a single to the headbox of the IDPA target that I was using. The fifty-yard hits sailed by the right side of the target; there were two in the “-3” at two o’clock and one “-1” at two o’clock. The remaining pair were off the right side of the target. The 25-yard shot was not found; altogether, an inauspicious start.

If that’s not bad enough, I followed with five shots slowfire, one-handed, from 25 yards on a B-8. Four hits appeared high, with one outside the scoring rings by the target’s barcode. There were – maybe – three “8s” at 12 o’clock. From fifteen yards, six rounds went into the upper ½ of the B-8.

At seven yards, I worked failure drills, with the repair center as the “-0.” I found that I had a tendency to go high on the headshots. Could be a backstrap switch or the user working the grip around.

I refaced the target and did a ‘walk-back.’ This consisted of pairs at each stop, beginning at seven yards. I ended it at around 23 yards. I threw one into the “7” ring at around 18 yards and one “8” (embarrassingly) from seven yards.

There was no doubt I was shooting to the right with this gun. The sights looked ‘plumb.’

The 'sort-of' qual course proved a right-bias in grouping. The gun ran 100% and was very easy to shoot well.

I repaired the target and did a ‘more or less’ qual type course on a B-8 repair center. Working from fifteen yards and in, I had three hits in the “8” ring and a high one in the “9.” When I’d finished, I had one off the repair center and four in the “8” ring, all on the right side. These were from 25 yards.

I’d tried to move the rear sight – with a Wyoming Sight Drifter, then a Wheeler Engineering Armorer’s Handgun Sight Tool.

The sight didn’t move.

I returned to the range on a drizzling morning and used the bullseye bay with the covered firing point. Shooting from a seated rest, I was at zero for elevation, on the right for windage.

I tried some standing unsupported shooting at the 50-yard steel IPSC silhouette. Holding off the target on the left, I hit about 1 ½” from the left edge. Holding on that hit, I fired a shot that went center high. The last four hits hammered into the right ¼ of the target.

Okay, the accuracy is there. I just wish I could move the sight a bit.

Using 1776 Lead Free 90gr. ammo, I shot from seated rest onto a 12” plate at fifty yards. I got four hits. I then got back on a 25-yard B-8 center. Standing unsupported (right handed), I held off the left side of the target and hit the left side of the bull (scoring 43/50) – very interesting. The hits are marked in blue on the image. I then shot it left-handed (bullseye-style, one handed), favoring the left side of the bull, and marked the hits in red.

I shot a 46/50.

It’s not the sights. It’s my hold. The gun is shooting just fine.

After just over 100 rounds, including the few rounds of 90gr. ammo, there were no stoppages to report.

I’ll continue my work and report back.

-- Rich Grassi