Can anyone identify this magazine?
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WestKentucky
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Looks very Taurus-ish
I looked through the Taurus catalog from day one and it doesn't seem to be one of theirs.
Thanks for the insight though because that led me to Beretta. Italian pistols seem to be the only ones with that downward curve base plate.
Still it doesn't seem to be Beretta either.
Magazine catch and base plate are very peculiar. Considering that it appears very cheap and has no identification marks, it makes me think that it belongs to some cheap pistol, perhaps those pistols that were used to be made with zinc alloy frames and slides.
Just found it and you are correct. It is for a Jennings /Bryco JA-9. A cheap pistol indeed. I just looked on Ebay and the magazines are half the value of the gun itself.
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May be a cheap pistol, but it’s better than some of its competition back in the day. I had a Jennings nine, and it was ten times the pistol that a Stallard was. Somehow Stallard morphed into Hi-Point and Jennings faded. I think Jennings was part of the “ring of fire” guns with pot metal frames and they were banned from import, but if I recall correctly the zamak was used in the micro compact 32/25/22 pistols and not in 380 and 9mm pistols.
My Jennings broke the firing pin and it would jam forward pretty predictably and would run away for the rest of the mag. Was pretty fun but lost its appeal. I now understand how dangerous that is because out of battery ignition can basically detonate the gun pretty easily.
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I agree with the ID, but I am surprised. I would have said that cut-out at the top left side of the magazine is so the floorplate can function a last-shot hold-open device. I did not know any of the Jennings/Bryco/Lorcin/Cobray/whatever genre of pistols had last-shot hold-opens.
Well, I learned something today, so that makes it a good day!
Well, I learned something today, so that makes it a good day!
Those J.A. blow backs came with magazines???? I thought they came loaded with 10 rounds in a captive ammunition well then you threw them away once all 10 rounds were fired?... if the gun hadn't disintegrated before you got to the 10th round?
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