Recent content by Chas B

"I like the compactness and solid all steel feel of the gun." Exactly. I just bought one in .45 ACP and it is great. I wouldn't trade it for a Glock. It runs flawlessly and it's accurate. Just got a couple extra mags for it, and have a Gunmate IWB on the way. It is 36 oz., which isn't...

"I agree with the majority of the posts: .45 GAP is a goner but the .357 Sig is alive and well." Same here. The .45 GAP is an oddball orphan going nowhere, but the .357 Sig brings the legendary .357 Magnum ballistics to the autopistol, and as such it has a place in the future. Though, maybe...

From my list of guns that didn't work: 10. Norton TP-70, .22 Autopistol - didn't work. Misfired in SA mode with a round in the chamber, and fed horribly. Chamber was so badly peened from excessive dry firing that the fired case would stop and stick halfway out of the chamber, extractor hook...

I had one about 20 years ago and it was a jamamatic. Stovepipes, failures to feed, failures to extract - it jammed every which way it could. Wouldn't get through a magazine without jamming. Bought an aftermarket magazine and tried half a dozen brands of ammo including Stingers and 42gr...

I got a new mag catch spring from PSA, but it's very different. It's short with about about 6 coils instead of a long with one coil. It doesn't work. It's way too small for the recess in the Bauer, so it jumps sideways and ends up diagonal. It sort of operates the catch like that, but it...

My Bauer .25 runs like a champ, but it has one problem. The magazine tends to drop out every few rounds. I've tried keeping my little finger out to the side so it can't trip the magazine catch as the pistol rotates under recoil, but it still drops out every now and then. I think the spring is...