The Mighty Beagle
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- Dec 30, 2002
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Well guys, I know I’ve been on here asking a lot of questions about some high-end autos, and I certainly do appreciate your responses, but tonight at a pawn shop I fell in love with a Firestorm Mini 40. And I wasn’t the only one, the wife really, really liked it as well.
I’ve just never had a semi fit my small hand so well; the grip is a little fat, which I like, but is also rounded nicely with finger grooves that actually fit my small fingers like a glove. Kinda like that feeling you got when you first picked up a CZ.
And the balance was perfect, with the sights coming up darn near perfect when pointed instinctively. This gun uses the Glock-type sight set-up, just put the big white ball into the bright white square and squeeze. Very visible and easy to use for me.
I don’t know if the frame is alloy, steel, plastic, or what. It was just sort of dark black, and I couldn’t really tell where the grips ended and it began (it was only a cursory inspection before the shop closed). The gun had a tasteful nickel/chrome/whatever silver finish on the slide; everything else was black. Normally I don’t two-tones, but found it very tasteful and striking on this on.
The trigger was the only thing I wasn’t wild about. The DA was heavy, to be expected, but sadly the SA was also very heavy. The gun felt over-sprung. However, both pulls were very smooth and the SA, when it did break, went cleanly, almost crisply, and the fall did not slap my sights off target (which a heavily-sprung revolver sometimes does).
I feel that I could take this gun in 9mm (which they are getting in a few days) and really have a ball with it for plinking. But it’s just the size I wanted for my new CCW piece, and has a corresponding “heft†about it to dampen some recoil. This is the gun that’s “just right†for me. But ... which caliber makes it shine? Also, is it reliable? Lastly, how durable would it be? This is a great alternative to the cheaper Bersa .380 we had looked at.
Incidentally, we also looked at the Kel-Tec P11, which I found to be much less gun for only being 60 bucks cheaper. Upon inspecting it, I couldn’t get what I took to be the slide stop to work, so I had to pull back on the slide to get it to close into battery. Not impressed, I then realized that the mag. would not drop free, but had to be yanked as you depressed the mag. release button. Not a bad trigger, though. But bad grip and miserably tiny sights. My wife however liked the gun.
Anyway, thanks guys!
I’ve just never had a semi fit my small hand so well; the grip is a little fat, which I like, but is also rounded nicely with finger grooves that actually fit my small fingers like a glove. Kinda like that feeling you got when you first picked up a CZ.
And the balance was perfect, with the sights coming up darn near perfect when pointed instinctively. This gun uses the Glock-type sight set-up, just put the big white ball into the bright white square and squeeze. Very visible and easy to use for me.
I don’t know if the frame is alloy, steel, plastic, or what. It was just sort of dark black, and I couldn’t really tell where the grips ended and it began (it was only a cursory inspection before the shop closed). The gun had a tasteful nickel/chrome/whatever silver finish on the slide; everything else was black. Normally I don’t two-tones, but found it very tasteful and striking on this on.
The trigger was the only thing I wasn’t wild about. The DA was heavy, to be expected, but sadly the SA was also very heavy. The gun felt over-sprung. However, both pulls were very smooth and the SA, when it did break, went cleanly, almost crisply, and the fall did not slap my sights off target (which a heavily-sprung revolver sometimes does).
I feel that I could take this gun in 9mm (which they are getting in a few days) and really have a ball with it for plinking. But it’s just the size I wanted for my new CCW piece, and has a corresponding “heft†about it to dampen some recoil. This is the gun that’s “just right†for me. But ... which caliber makes it shine? Also, is it reliable? Lastly, how durable would it be? This is a great alternative to the cheaper Bersa .380 we had looked at.
Incidentally, we also looked at the Kel-Tec P11, which I found to be much less gun for only being 60 bucks cheaper. Upon inspecting it, I couldn’t get what I took to be the slide stop to work, so I had to pull back on the slide to get it to close into battery. Not impressed, I then realized that the mag. would not drop free, but had to be yanked as you depressed the mag. release button. Not a bad trigger, though. But bad grip and miserably tiny sights. My wife however liked the gun.
Anyway, thanks guys!