Michael Tinker Pearce
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Among my other Birthday presents from Linda was this Seecamp LWS32. Remarkably for such a tiny gun it works well in my hand. The fit and finish is top-notch, and the trigger is very smooth with little stacking. It's not what you'd call light, but it's so good I don't care. The magazine is short front-to-back so ball ammo can be problematic; the manufacturer designed the pistol around Winchester Silvertips, but their website now has a list of other hollowpoints that work. I loaded 60gr XTPs over 2.7gr. of Universal, with a Federal #100 primer, and these have worked flawlessly. The get an average of 727fps and 70 ft./lbs from the gun's 2" barrel. I'm working up a load using 75gr. Hard-cast flat-points and Red Dot, but the batteries on the chrono died before I could test them. Tomorrow then.
These guns use an annular ring in the chamber to reduce the slide velocity, and it really helps to mitigate recoil. The gun is quite pleasant to shoot with the 60gr. load. Accuracy is probably quite good... but there are no sights, so it's a little hard to tell.
These were designed for contact-distance self-defense, so sights weren't perceived as needed. I decided to go all in on the first magazines. I ran the target out to 3 yards (about two yards further than it's designer intended) and blazed away one handed. The best I can say is that they all stayed on the paper...
Ever the optimist I reloaded and ran the target out to seven yards and repeated. Most of the bullets hit the paper somewhere... well, four of them did. I decided to get serious, taped the holes and flipped the target to expose the bullseye. I fired another five rounds carefully, and the results were much improved. Actually not bad for a DAO micro-pistol with no sights.
While I was shooting the fellow next to commented that he hated the factory sight on his gun. "Oh sure," I said. "You've got sights. Fancy-fancy."
I kinda love this little gun, but all is not well in paradise... I really hate the magazine safety, mainly because it not only locks out the trigger, you cannot operate the slide either. To unload the gun you either need to drop the magazine about 1/4" and run the slide, then remove the magazine, or you have to remove the magazine, unload it and reinsert it to get the round out of the chamber. It's annoying.
If this gun continues to demonstrate the reliability it has so far this is likely to become my new summer pocket-piece for around the house and workshop, and the gun I carry when i can't carry a gun. Gonna need a lotta practice though...
These guns use an annular ring in the chamber to reduce the slide velocity, and it really helps to mitigate recoil. The gun is quite pleasant to shoot with the 60gr. load. Accuracy is probably quite good... but there are no sights, so it's a little hard to tell.
These were designed for contact-distance self-defense, so sights weren't perceived as needed. I decided to go all in on the first magazines. I ran the target out to 3 yards (about two yards further than it's designer intended) and blazed away one handed. The best I can say is that they all stayed on the paper...
Ever the optimist I reloaded and ran the target out to seven yards and repeated. Most of the bullets hit the paper somewhere... well, four of them did. I decided to get serious, taped the holes and flipped the target to expose the bullseye. I fired another five rounds carefully, and the results were much improved. Actually not bad for a DAO micro-pistol with no sights.
While I was shooting the fellow next to commented that he hated the factory sight on his gun. "Oh sure," I said. "You've got sights. Fancy-fancy."
I kinda love this little gun, but all is not well in paradise... I really hate the magazine safety, mainly because it not only locks out the trigger, you cannot operate the slide either. To unload the gun you either need to drop the magazine about 1/4" and run the slide, then remove the magazine, or you have to remove the magazine, unload it and reinsert it to get the round out of the chamber. It's annoying.
If this gun continues to demonstrate the reliability it has so far this is likely to become my new summer pocket-piece for around the house and workshop, and the gun I carry when i can't carry a gun. Gonna need a lotta practice though...
