Ep. 398 | Daniel Defense H9 — The New Do-All Pistol?

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this twisty tale of two pistols, Vortex’s Adam Maxwell brings in the original Hudson H9 and the present-day Daniel Defense H9. The overall concept of blending desirable attributes of the beloved 1911 and today’s popular striker-fired pistols is the same, the pistols themselves are very different. We cover the saga, the features, and what it offers the shooter.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.6	What is up, everybody? I tell you what, if there's one thing we like around here at Vortex, it is cool guns. Yeah. Yeah, Adam Maxwell on the mic here. Joining me today for a tale of two pistols. Adam, we have four on the table, but I think they're going to help tell the story that we're trying to tell. We love telling stories.
0:38.2	Kind of an interesting one with this one here. We're talking about the, I guess, the H-9's, plural.
0:44.7	Yes. One of them, the original Hudson. The other, the, I guess, the current still in production.
0:53.3	Yes, recently launched.
0:54.9	Daniel Defense.
0:55.6	Daniel Defense, H9, yes.
0:57.4	Give us the scoop on these things, Adam.
1:00.2	Well, we were talking, I don't know, a few weeks ago,
1:02.6	you're not always come on, tap you on the shoulder.
1:04.3	I'm like, you got any ideas for cool podcasts.
1:06.3	You guys are in the know.
1:07.0	You're in the mix.
1:08.0	Got cool stuff. And it got cool stuff. And you're like, well, how about this?
1:11.0	And I was like, oh, dude, that sounds super interesting.
1:12.4	Let's do it.
1:12.9	And here we are.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.2	So the H9, really?
1:18.3	Like, as we've established in other episodes, I'm a big 1911 guy.
1:23.0	All right.
1:23.4	So I love it.
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