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For those who have bought one, which mags have you found to work in these? I have two Colt 8 rounders that feed fine, but because of the shape of the follower the mag doesn't always operate the slide stop when the mag's empty.

JLaw

budder wrote:The GM in Spring had no idea what I was talking about and the one in N Houston said they were sold out. I didn't call the one in Sugar Land, since I can't make it out there today.

Call the store in Beaumont. That's where part of my groups shipment came from. Also another friend of mine ordered some to be shipped from Beaumont to the Spring store here in the next few days, and he may not be picking all of them up. So call them on a daily basis if you want one, there may be 2 or 3 extra's laying around there very soon.

JLaw

If you're interested...

Myself and another fine member of this great forum picked ours up last night. I got what I expected, maybe a little more. Not sure about all the "ugly gun" comments, I'm kind of drawn to mine, maybe it's the age/history thing. Maybe it's just that it has a face only a mother could love. But a worn gun in my opinion does not neccessarily make for an ugly gun. No pics yet, maybe tommorrow.

The one I picked out has almost no blueing left, this is the norm for these I suppose. The grip panels are in pretty rough condition, again this appears to be the norm. The fit and trigger were much better than I expected. The gun seems fairly tight, slide to frame and barrell to slide are great, locking lugs look good, no serious dents or dings, all parts are there and appear to be okay. The magazine is pretty tight in the frame, I'll have to look into that soon. The trigger on this one is not bad, heavier than Kimber/S&W/Springer of course, but it's relatively clean.

Upon complete teardown I found that all parts are in good condition, but the inside workings were very dry and awfully dirty. A good cleaning took care of most of it, will have to take more time to get it how I want it though. Everything mechanically looks pretty good, only thing I noticed is that the rifling in the barrell is pretty worn...it's still there and visable, but not crisp and clean where the lands and grooves meet. Shot a lot? Corrosive ammo? Don't know.

However do inspect your pistol well before you fill out the paperwork (thanks for your help there, Jim!), not all the pistols are like this. We left one at the store that was very, VERY loose, missing the magazine, and had a chipped plunger tube.

Got a few parts on order to spruce this one up, will update later. Suppose I better get some .45 ammo and test this one out before I start sinking too much into it.

JLaw

Mike1951, other than the finish being poor on these guns, how's the mechanics of them? Does everything appear to be functioning correctly?

JLaw