One of the more head-turning debuts seen at the recent IWA Outdoor Classics show in Germany recently came from a new Czech gunmaker who has a story eight years in the making.
Guns.com caught up with inventor and gunmaker Jan Lysak, who spent almost a decade of blood, sweat, and tears crafting something a bit different. Lysak's company, Brno-based Creapeiron, introduced its first product at IWA: the Elysien pistol.
The Elysien looks very Laugo Alien and CZ75-ish from the get-go, sharing an extremely low bore axis, grip angle, and internal slide rails with those two pistols. Lysak admits the design borrows from the CZ75, a traditional Czech design, but stresses he had his gun under development before the Alien was released.
Of note, the Elysien uses the same 19-shot 9mm magazine as the SP-01/Shadow 2.
Added to this is extensive use of magnets including both in the trigger regulator and screwless grip panels. When it comes to sights and optics, the pistol uses what the company calls the System Miridel, which includes the ability to use custom-made iron sights, a direct mount RMSc footprint MRD on the slide, or a fixed RMR/RMSc platform that stands independent of the slide.
The company cultivates a certain sui generis style of exclusivity, purposely departing from the ordinary or more commonly encountered offerings in the gun community. A singularity if you will.
Just drink in this creed from the company's website to get a feel for the ethos behind the company's thinking, which spins the pistol's unique feature set to an almost eccentric degree.
We already understand the advantages of a right angle, a wheel, and we know the force exerted by a body immersed in a liquid and what it means if an apple falls on our head. With that skull-crammed ganglion, we were able to calculate how long a solar ray travels from the Sun to us on Earth, ponder whether there is an entity that transcends us, and even create new, imaginary, fantastic and non-existent worlds into which we run then, if the everyday world is small, insufficient and too cruel to us, through paper, ink and the ability to tell stories. Our reason has taken us beyond the limits of the physically known universe. We have been able to come out of the cave and outsmart the mammoths, build the pyramids, build ships, discover and build new worlds and let the old ones crumble, formulate a new morality, light the light bulb, break the core, exterminate many animal species, poison the planet irreversibly, have thousands of television programs, from which we can't choose anyway, and with just a click of the mouse to visit a restaurant without leaving the car space. We have lubricated the wheels of history with our own blood, and we are unstoppable.
However, who we are today is only the threshold to who we can be tomorrow. However, evolving, learning, and achieving a better version of yourself is not an option. It is our mission.
As such, Lysak has limited the introductory run to seven chrome DLC Elysien Genesis "Ment for Gods" models – all named after gods from Ancient Greek mythology – and 99 plainer black DLC Elysien Soul models.
Cost? The six named guns that were up for grabs (Lysak kept one) sold for €10,000 ($10,850) with the simpler models running €5,000.
So, is the Elysien coming to America? Well, we sat down with Lysak over alternating shots of Slivovitz and espresso while discussing future import possibilities and further production of a third run of the pistols, perhaps just for the American market. He brainstormed a possible run of 333 with more details available next year.
