[Bigjake]

a buddy of mine picked one up at the gunshow last weekend, and swore up and down to me that the dealer told him it would fire regular old 9mm. I'm not familure with star pistols, but it says 9mm largo, which i thought was 9x23. I can't see regular 9mm (9x19 IIRC) being safely fired from the star. Hope this isnt too stupid of a question, but i am just now figuring out that there are more than 1 9mm rnd, till i started looking at maks and now this star.

file it under "He who asks a stupid question is only a fool for 5 min..."

[armoredman]

9mm Largo is NOT interchangeable with 9mm Luger/Parabellum/NATO. Use only what the weapon is actually chmabered for. If you have any questions, take it to a local gunshop, where they can measure it to make sure. All the Super Bs I saw were 9mm Largo.
Cactus Uniforms ended up with 6 boxes of 9mm Largo sitting on thier shelf forever because of a mixup like that....still have it, too.

[Jim Watson]

If it says "largo" then it likely IS a Largo. That is, a 9x23 Bergman Bayard, used in Spain as the 9mm Largo.
CAUTION! It is NOT the same as a 9x23 Winchester, which has the same outside dimensions, but is MUCH hotter, too hot for those soft old Spanish guns.

There was some real Spanish Largo brought into the country a while back. There were two or three lots, the 1962 was corrosive, the 1968 and later were non-corrosive. All were Berdan primed, not readily reloadable.

CCI made Blazer Largo at one time, but I haven't seen any lately. Most of it around here got shot up as a cheap substitute for .38 Super.

SOME Largos will fire .38 ACP, but where do you get that? Don't shoot .38 Super in them, it is also too heavy a load.

Starline makes Largo headstamp brass, or you can use their 9mm Super Comp brass.

I thought a Model B Super was a 9mm P, like the original Model B made for the krauts. The Largos are just plain Modello Super. But there are probably a lot of variations and crossover.

[Bigjake]

ah. well thank you, i will pass that info along, wouldn't want to have a kaboom there. do you guys remember those chamber insert things to convert a gun to shoot a cartridge of the same diam but smaller? they had em for many diferent calibers, but the only one i can think of right now was .223 to .22 lr. anybody got a link?