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clusive run done in matte nickel for ashland shooting supply in the summer of 1984 it was acquired from indy arms company in the spring of 2023 for four hundo total production of the 469 was 97 261 pistols from 1983 until 1988 when it was replaced by its third generation successors the alloy framed model 6904 and the all stainless 6906 posted by tam at 9 05 am 1 comment labels 20th century pistols american pistols sunday smiths monday march 06 2023 working classic when is something a classic the state of indiana lets you put historic vehicle plates on a car when it passes the quarter century mark so there s one benchmark you know what else is over a quarter century old at this point most gen1 and gen2 glock pistols like the g19 in the picture this one was made in 1996 meaning it s not too far off from its thirtieth birthday if you remember the internet firearms discussion groups at the time there was a lot of talk about well how well will these plastic guns hold up over the long term so far so good the big differences between the gen2 glock 19 and its gen3 replacement are deeper than just the obvious addition of finger grooves on the frame and an accessory rail on the dust cover from top to bottom gen4 gen3 and gen2 glock 19s later gen3 g19 s incorporated the third pin in the frame the one added to accommodate 40s w in the g22 23 gen3 glock 17s did not i believe because their specifications were frozen by big contracts you ll notice that in addition to the finger grooves the later glocks have a divot where the thumb would rest this makes those thumbrest target grips for extra batfe import points needed to allow the tiny g26 g27 subcompacts importable one unusual and little noted difference is that around the time of the introduction of the gen3 glocks they went to a shinier finish on the slide you can note the difference in reflectivity even in the potato quality iphone 7 photo scuttlebutt on the net at the time was that this was in response to complaints from federal law enforcement agencies about how the old matte phosphate like finish was almost impervious to fingerprints there was much griping on glocktalk back in 99 00 about how the more slippery new fingerprint friendly was just glock knuckling under to the feds this gen2 on the right in the photo above also lacks the bevel on the chamber hood added to later g19s as part of an attempt to solve the nypd s mysterious phase 3 malfunction complaints vintage or not a glock is just a utilitarian working gun oh sure there are some collectible ones but a generic 19 is just a generic 19 whether it s a gen2 or a gen5 and this one s been modified to suit my tastes in a carry gun tango down slide and magazine releases a gadget striker control device and the factory grooved g19 trigger needed to get the compact 19 the extra batf import points has been replaced with a stock glock 17 trigger with a smooth trigger shoe the meprolight tritium sights have almost completely ceased to glow and are due to be replaced the fact that they were glowing at all when i bought it five years ago indicates they re almost certainly not the factory sights keep anything long enough and it becomes a classic i guess heck these days people collect smith wesson police revolvers which would have been weird when this glock was new and you could buy department trade in model 10s for less than a c note posted by tam at 8 41 am 3 comments labels 20th century pistols austrian pistols cold war pistols tuesday august 23 2022 not quite locked elbert searle s design for the savage pistol claimed that it was a locked breech design but it was nothing of the sort it was really a sort of mechanically delayed blowback thanks to ian at forgotten weapons you now have video proof should you need to win this argument on the internet rather than just citing old books posted by tam at 8 27 am no comments labels 20th century pistols american pistols savage stories thursday april 14 2022 mise à niveau so set the wayback machine for the summer of 2007 when i was still living in knoxville right after i left coal creek armory having some spare time on my hands i drove over to nashville to spend a few days at oleg volk s place hanging out and providing an eclectic selection of guns for photographic purposes the first morning there oleg and a few others were heading out to go do some shooting having just finished a good long stretch of six day workweeks at an indoor range i begged off i ll just chill here and read if it s all the same to you guys if you want to shoot anything i brought feel free to drag it along among the guns they elected to take was the mas 49 56 i handed oleg a couple boxes of portuguese fnm branded full metal jacket ammunition and told him to knock himself out he asked where to hold on the target at a hundred yards how the hell should i know i replied i ve had it a couple years but never got around to shooting it i spent a pleasant couple hours in silence with a book and when the crew came trooping back in from the range oleg had an unhappy look on his face and was nursing his right thumb what happened the rifle tried to break my hand yikes the internet wouldn t be happy with me if i broke their photographer no matter how indirectly it turned out that oleg let the bolt fly forward to chamber the first round and the rifle promptly slamfired kicking up a gout of dirt a few yards in front of the line and pranging the base of oleg s thumb with that big round nylon knob on the mas charging handle a bit of research on the internets turned up the fact that this is what we would call a known issue with some ammunition since the mas has a large heavy firing pin meant to deliver a healthy lick to a hard french military primer y know how the free floating pin on an ar will lightly dimple a primer when you chamber a round same thing but that s an ar firing pin up top and the mas pin below the two solutions for this i uncovered at the time were to either have a smith lighten the factory pin which seemed pretty iffy or to track down one of a small number of titanium firing pins someone had allegedly made in unicorn like quantities a few years earlier the importance i assigned to this task can be assessed by the fact that i finally got around to it last month i mused about it on facebook and ian mccollum because of course he would know recommended a spring loaded rebounding pin from murray s gunsmithing in texas and said they had worked fine in his blasters so i ordered one with my own money mr federal trade commission the other day i went and installed it to do so first you lock the bolt to the rear and remove the magazine ensuring the weapon is clear next you let the bolt go back forward this step is important now look at the rear of the receiver see that rectangular button doohickey put your thumb on the serrated top and press downward and hold it while holding that button down grab the rear sight receiver cover assembly slide it slightly toward the muzzle end of the gun and then carefully lift it up and away from the rifle be careful here because it is under a lot of pressure from the action spring the spring will probably come away from the rifle along with the cover next pull the bolt carrier assembly to the rear and lift it out of the receiver the bolt will just drop out of the carrier from there it s a simple matter of pulling out the old pin and replacing it with the new one reassembly is pretty straightforwardly the reverse of disassembly i will note that the sproing factor of that action spring is hard to overstate that bolt and carrier assembly is small and light when you consider the power of the 7 5x54mm cartridge it doesn t have a lot of inertia on its own so the spring is doing a lot of work getting that receiver cover back on with the spring all compressed back into its nest definitely takes all of both hands now it s ready to use with prvi partisan ammunition and the thumbs of america are safe posted by tam at 9 33 am 3 comments labels 20th century rifles cold war rifles french rifles thursday january 13 2022 fallen star 1 ultra star 1994 it was almost thirty years ago 1994 when the last new production model from star bonifacio echevarria s a was imported into this country by interarms within five years both star and interarms would be no more for decades star s service type autos largely riffed off of colt s browning designs in the 1970s they came up with an in house clean sheet of paper design that was eventually produced as the model 28 it has a lot in common with the cz 75 but was designed at the same time half a continent away both design teams were cribbing the same ideas though the model 28 featured a double action trigger hammer dropping safeties a fixed lug with an enclosed cam path for unlocking rather than a swinging link inside frame rails and a captive recoil spring the new pistol formed the basis for subsequent star designs of which the ultra star was the final evolution the ultimate star if you will the ultra star ported the basic formula of the duty size model 28 30 31 pistols over into a compact single stack form factor with a capacity of 9 1 rounds of 9mm the big changes were the replacement of the colt browning type locking lugs on the barrel with a sig sauer style shoulder over the chamber that locked into the ejection port and obviously the polymer frame this would be the first polymer pistol from star and the last the manufacturer closed its doors for good in 1997 posted by tam at 10 13 am 3 comments labels 20th century pistols fallen star spanish pistols sunday december 26 2021 sunday smith 71 bodyguard 380 2013 the 380acp cartridge was developed by john moses browning and debuted on these shores in colt s model 1908 pocket hammerless it would however be another eighty seven years before smith wesson offered a pistol in the chambering that was the sw380 a little striker fired pistol in the sigma series it had a 3 barrel weighed a claimed 14 ounces empty and had a six shot magazine that was released by squeezing two large tabs one on either side like it was the battery pack in a power tool it was a straight blowback pistol with a zinc alloy slide and as a result had a beastly heavy recoil spring that made cycling the slide a difficult proposition for those without a lot of grip strength the slide was finished with black paint that chipped easily the gun was built to a price and looked it reliability was poor and the guns had a notoriously short lifespan being cynically designed with an eye toward the fact that the typical purchaser probably wouldn t shoot them much production ran for only a year or two and then smith wesson dropped the 380 cartridge from its catalog for over another dozen years before releasing the bodyguard 380 sometimes referred to as the bg380 in 2010 unlike the sw380 the bg380 is a locked breech pistol using a modified browning tilting barrel short recoil setup with the barrel locking to the slide via a shoulder atop the chamber that mates with the leading edge of the ejection port also unlike the earlier sigma the bodyguard is a hammer fired pistol since the slide has to overcome not only the dual concentric recoil springs under the barrel but also force the hammer back against the hammer spring the slide can be much slimmer and lighter than the one on the earlier striker fired blowback gun like the larger pistols in the m p series the slide is melonite finished stainless steel the bg380 weighs 14 7 ounces with 6 1 hornady critical defense 380 ftx rounds aboard most of the little 380s in this class like the kel tec p3at and the original ruger lcp are only quasi double action the hammer spring is cocked by the action of the slide and pulling the trigger just causes the the hammer to move sort of like the old para ordnance lda or hk s lem the bodyguard 380 on the other hand is a true double action only with re strike capability and all originally all bg380s had an integral laser in the frame activated by the gray button in front of the trigger guard the likelihood of activating this thing when reacting under pressure is about nil practically speaking and in 2014 smith started offering a version without the integral laser i bought the pictured pistol new back in 2013 and used it for wintertime coat pocket carry for several years the slide is not the original one being fitted with xs standard dot night sights it was a gift from a friend having originally been on his bg380 posted by tam at 9 40 pm no comments labels 21st century pistols american pistols pocket pistols sunday smiths sunday november 14 2021 sunday smith 70 model 3913 199 4 when smith wesson started making their single stack double action 9mm semiauto pistol in the mid 1950s the model 39 was pretty typical of the breed it had a full length grip that accommodated an 8 shot magazine a 4 barrel and a hammer dropping safety in the early eighties production shifted to the second generation versions of the same pistol these came in three flavors the model 439 with an aluminum frame and carbon steel slide the model 539 with a carbon steel frame and slide and the model 639 with a stainless steel frame and slide these were still full size pistols with 4 barrels and 8 shot single stack magazines the earliest single stack third generation autos introduced in 1988 were very similar the 3904 with a carbon steel slide and alloy frame and the 3906 with a stainless steel frame and slide soon however came a third generation single stack nine that was different than earlier models the seventies and eighties had seen several custom chopped subcompact versions of the smith single stack nines the asp and devel these went for hundreds of dollars for the custom work with that price being added on top of the base gun reliability could sometimes well let s just say it could require a little tweaking before things settled out then smith wesson launched their own in house model 3913 in 1989 with a barrel chopped to three and a half inches a shortened grip that still retained an eight shot magazine and a no snag bobbed hammer from the factory the 3913 was a factory subcompact 9mm that was years ahead of the kahr or glock 26 it was utterly reliable weighed 25 ounces empty and its msrp of six hundred and twenty two bucks was barely more than what a custom house would have charged to chop a customer provided 3904 into a compact carry blaster it wasn t long after the 3913 was released that the full sized 3904 and 3906 were discontinued apparently someone at smith wesson thought that the future for full size pistols was in double stack duty guns and single stacks should be compacts the pictured pistol shipped from the factory with novak lo mount night sights and no magazine disconnect likely indicating that it was ordered by a police department as a duty or backup gun it was acquired from a local gun store in 2021 for four and a half bills posted by tam at 5 55 pm 11 comments labels american pistols 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