Girsan Witness CMX 2011 .45 ACP Review — Budget Double
Girsan Witness CMX 2011 .45 ACP Review — Budget Double. Girsan's CMX compensated 2011 delivers surprising accuracy and soft recoil at $1,100. Full range test and breakdown of specs, trigger, and why this budget { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/goldenwebb#person", "name": "GoldenWebb", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/goldenwebb", "description": "GoldenWebb is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/4272b7c0-b0b2-4e63-b1b7-1562234c6ab4.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/girsan-witness-cmx-2011-45-review#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/girsan-witness-cmx-2011-45-review" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/girsan-witness-cmx-2011-45-review", "headline": "Girsan Witness CMX 2011 .45 ACP Review — Budget Double", "name": "Girsan Witness CMX 2011 .45 ACP Review — Budget Double", "description": "Girsan's CMX compensated 2011 delivers surprising accuracy and soft recoil at $1,100. Full range test and breakdown of specs, trigger, and why this budget", "articleSection": "Gun Reviews", "articleBody": "The Girsan Witness CMX is a compensated 2011-pattern double-stack pistol chambered in .45 ACP, priced at roughly $1,100 — a rare \"budget\" entry in a market usually dominated by $3,000–$5,000 guns. In his range review on Greyhive, GoldenWebb calls it one of the lightest and softest-shooting double-stack .45s he's ever run. Marketed under a few names — the CMX, the \"CMX double X,\" the Witness 2311 — this is a hammer-fired 1911/2011 crossover with a large integral compensator, a 4.25-inch slide, and an optics-cut slide. GoldenWebb has reviewed three or four Girsan pistols on his channel and reports never having a single malfunction across any of them. The short version from the transcript: the compensator genuinely works, the gun shoots flatter than its weight suggests, the trigger is the weak point, and the price makes it one of the few 2011s a working shooter can actually afford. Key Takeaways The Girsan Witness CMX runs about $1,100 — genuinely cheap for a compensated 2011 in .45 ACP. GoldenWebb calls it possibly the softest-shooting .45 ACP he's ever fired, thanks to the integral compensator. Ships with 11-round .45 ACP magazines (12 seated easily, though that exceeds spec). 4.25-inch barrel/slide, fiber-optic front with two white rear co-witness sights, and an optics cut for a red dot. Series 80 drop-safe trigger rated at 4.5 lb — safe and functional, but the review's main gripe. Point of impact ran abo…