wally
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This was an out of character purchase for me, but boy am I happy with it so far!
One sweet shooitng gun with a great trigger.
Only came with one magazine and when I priced spares I said no way. No way would I even pay what EAA wanted for the baseplates to convert my existing Witness mags which was more than I'd paid for the original mags! So I ordered some 140mm conversions from Hennings and after shortening the legs of the factory follower I got some nice 140mm 12-round 45ACP mags for the gun.
Important note on the Henning's extensions, they are designed for a "Gramm's spring and follower that don't lock back, I wanted lock back so I did my own thing which worked, but there are two (at least) variations of Witness 45 mags and the one on the right in the photo below will not work with my shortened leg factory followers as the "notch" lets the follower escape once the legs have been shortened enough to load 12 and lock in the gun with the slide closed.
The ones on the left worked great. Of the eleven EAA mags I had, eight were the "good" style. I've ordered more of the Henning's extensions as they work with my EAA Elite Match and Witness-P as well.
Next I set about modifying some of my Mec-Gars since it was only the baseplates not fitting the magwell that prevented them from working. A few minutes with a Dremel and the sanding cylinder and I was good to go. Shown below are before and after side-by-sides of the EAA bottoms and the Mec-Gar bottoms.
Still work in the regualar guns if you don't mind the gap (I don't). Henning's had EAA factory followers and baseplates for cheap, so I'd bought extras to return all my mags to stock contition if neccessary. Shouldn't be necessary. From L to R: modified EAA bottom on Mec-Gar mag, Stock EAA mag, modified Mec-Gar bottom, stock Mec-Gar magazine.
Unfortunately you can not use the Henning's extensions on the Meg-Gar mags as they have 10-round limit notches stamped in, presumably so they don't have to run two products for free and non-free states.
Love the way this gun shoots, the extra weight of the full length dust cover and "cone" barrel really makes for soft recoil. One may question putitng a $20 red dot on a $1000 gun+mount but it works well and I had it on hand. Results at the plate rack suggest I could spend a lot more on a sight, but would get no benefit from it.
Of course the experience couldn't be perfect out of the box, EAA/Tanfoglio just lets too many things slide... Had to remove the rear sight blade to be able to disassemble the gun for cleaning without removing the mount. Not that big a deal and obvious from the get go -- a trade off to get as low a profile as practical. Where they screwed the pooch was the mount was just thick enough in front to not let the rear sight base slip under. Removing the entire rear sight would look like crap and I believe the rear sight is the "bottom" of the hole for the firing pin block. A few minutes with a file squared up the underside of the mount so the rear sight body slid thru. Shouldn't need to do this for the $110 they charge for the mount!
You might think the eight screws would be enough to not need Loc-Tite, but you'd be wrong I was worried the mount might interfere with ejection but they really designed it well for the Limited's ejection pattern. No stovepipes or dented brass at all. The gun has benn flawless in the first 600 rounds.
--wally.
One sweet shooitng gun with a great trigger.
Only came with one magazine and when I priced spares I said no way. No way would I even pay what EAA wanted for the baseplates to convert my existing Witness mags which was more than I'd paid for the original mags! So I ordered some 140mm conversions from Hennings and after shortening the legs of the factory follower I got some nice 140mm 12-round 45ACP mags for the gun.
Important note on the Henning's extensions, they are designed for a "Gramm's spring and follower that don't lock back, I wanted lock back so I did my own thing which worked, but there are two (at least) variations of Witness 45 mags and the one on the right in the photo below will not work with my shortened leg factory followers as the "notch" lets the follower escape once the legs have been shortened enough to load 12 and lock in the gun with the slide closed.
The ones on the left worked great. Of the eleven EAA mags I had, eight were the "good" style. I've ordered more of the Henning's extensions as they work with my EAA Elite Match and Witness-P as well.
Next I set about modifying some of my Mec-Gars since it was only the baseplates not fitting the magwell that prevented them from working. A few minutes with a Dremel and the sanding cylinder and I was good to go. Shown below are before and after side-by-sides of the EAA bottoms and the Mec-Gar bottoms.
Still work in the regualar guns if you don't mind the gap (I don't). Henning's had EAA factory followers and baseplates for cheap, so I'd bought extras to return all my mags to stock contition if neccessary. Shouldn't be necessary. From L to R: modified EAA bottom on Mec-Gar mag, Stock EAA mag, modified Mec-Gar bottom, stock Mec-Gar magazine.
Unfortunately you can not use the Henning's extensions on the Meg-Gar mags as they have 10-round limit notches stamped in, presumably so they don't have to run two products for free and non-free states.
Love the way this gun shoots, the extra weight of the full length dust cover and "cone" barrel really makes for soft recoil. One may question putitng a $20 red dot on a $1000 gun+mount but it works well and I had it on hand. Results at the plate rack suggest I could spend a lot more on a sight, but would get no benefit from it.
Of course the experience couldn't be perfect out of the box, EAA/Tanfoglio just lets too many things slide... Had to remove the rear sight blade to be able to disassemble the gun for cleaning without removing the mount. Not that big a deal and obvious from the get go -- a trade off to get as low a profile as practical. Where they screwed the pooch was the mount was just thick enough in front to not let the rear sight base slip under. Removing the entire rear sight would look like crap and I believe the rear sight is the "bottom" of the hole for the firing pin block. A few minutes with a file squared up the underside of the mount so the rear sight body slid thru. Shouldn't need to do this for the $110 they charge for the mount!
You might think the eight screws would be enough to not need Loc-Tite, but you'd be wrong
I was worried the mount might interfere with ejection but they really designed it well for the Limited's ejection pattern. No stovepipes or dented brass at all. The gun has benn flawless in the first 600 rounds.--wally.
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That is one sweet handgun!!!!!!!!!!
