johndoe1027
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I just picked up my new (to me) CCW, a NAA Guardian in .32 ACP.
The bad news; This thing hurts. I am glad I didn't find a cheap .380! Recoil is quite snappy, and the only thing keeping the barrel down is the underside of your trigger finger. With the finger extension I can get 2 fingers on the grips. Racking the slide is tough and a little rough, trigger pull feels like it's 2 inches long at about 20 pounds, and a little rough as well. I'll be doing a lot of polishing to this thing in the near future. This is my first "pocket" gun by the way.
The good news; Very accuarate for the small sight radius. They thought of everything when it comes to carrying. Smooth styling, very comfortable. The gun is well built for the price range. Finish is good. Out of 7 mags that I sent down-range I had 2 malfunctions. One was due to ammo (no Gold Dots for this guy) and the other was a fail to eject on the last round. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but that was straight out of the box, a little oil, then shoot. The only downside to the malfunction was that this gun just came back from NAA when I bought it. Different ammo should straighten that out.
I am in no way a sharpshooter and I have no fancy test tools but here's a (bad) pic of my 3rd mag-full of Magtech ball ammo at 7 yards standing. The first two didn't look quite so good...
All in all, I'm happy. It needs a little work but I think I will grow to love this little thing.
The bad news; This thing hurts. I am glad I didn't find a cheap .380! Recoil is quite snappy, and the only thing keeping the barrel down is the underside of your trigger finger. With the finger extension I can get 2 fingers on the grips. Racking the slide is tough and a little rough, trigger pull feels like it's 2 inches long at about 20 pounds, and a little rough as well. I'll be doing a lot of polishing to this thing in the near future. This is my first "pocket" gun by the way.
The good news; Very accuarate for the small sight radius. They thought of everything when it comes to carrying. Smooth styling, very comfortable. The gun is well built for the price range. Finish is good. Out of 7 mags that I sent down-range I had 2 malfunctions. One was due to ammo (no Gold Dots for this guy) and the other was a fail to eject on the last round. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but that was straight out of the box, a little oil, then shoot. The only downside to the malfunction was that this gun just came back from NAA when I bought it. Different ammo should straighten that out.
I am in no way a sharpshooter and I have no fancy test tools but here's a (bad) pic of my 3rd mag-full of Magtech ball ammo at 7 yards standing. The first two didn't look quite so good...
All in all, I'm happy. It needs a little work but I think I will grow to love this little thing.