Michael Tinker Pearce
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Last year a friend gave me a couple of Stacatto 2011 magazines, saying, "Sooner or later you will bow to the inevitable." She knows me well and this year I started ordering parts. This week I have been putting it together and testing and IT'S ALIIIIIVE!
The chassis is from Jem Guns LLC. and is a steel monolithic frame. The slide was originally a 6" Unique Cut slide shortened to 4-1/2". Internals are a mix of parts from EGW, Klonimus and the parts pin. The grip is a Staccato 120mm that I re-textured using a 5mm 'Maltese Cross' tip on the wood-burner. Magazine capacity is 15+1 rounds with a 17-round magazine in reserve. The bull-barrel is from Fusion Firearms and is shortened to 4-1/2 inches then ported. I'm using an EGW full-length guide-rod with a 10lb. recoil spring.
Extensive fitting was required and I made a custom barrel-link to get the lock-up just right. I did a radical flat-top on the slide and tri-topped it to remove weight. I cut the rear serrations into what I refer to as a charging handle, with the leading edge cut deeply into the slide so the serrations are at an angle that gives a lot of traction. The rear sight has 30 lpi. checkering across the front and the slide is serrated just ahead of the sight base to help with emergency on-hand cycling. The Staccato magazines don't lock the slide back so I added a Klonimus slide-stop that incorporates a low-profile 'gas pedal' that is very effective.
Since this is a carry gun the trigger is what I call 'very intentional;' there is some slight take-up then you hit a hard wall. A little more pressure and the trigger breaks, in the conventional idiom, like breaking a glass rod. There is no perceptible overtravel and the reset is about 12/1000". The trigger pull is rather heavy but in rapid-fire strings and double-taps you really don't notice and accuracy does not seem to suffer. I'll see how it wears in and how I like it over time before deciding whether or not to alter it.
Testing was done with an assortment of JHPs, ball and flat-nosed ammo in a variety of weights and the gun eats it all up like candy. I really, really like this gun and once things are full settled in and the gun gets it's permanent finish (likely GunKote) it's going to be a carry gun. Yeah, it's 38 ounces but I am a big guy and with a good holster and gun-belt heavy guns have never bothered me.
The chassis is from Jem Guns LLC. and is a steel monolithic frame. The slide was originally a 6" Unique Cut slide shortened to 4-1/2". Internals are a mix of parts from EGW, Klonimus and the parts pin. The grip is a Staccato 120mm that I re-textured using a 5mm 'Maltese Cross' tip on the wood-burner. Magazine capacity is 15+1 rounds with a 17-round magazine in reserve. The bull-barrel is from Fusion Firearms and is shortened to 4-1/2 inches then ported. I'm using an EGW full-length guide-rod with a 10lb. recoil spring.
Extensive fitting was required and I made a custom barrel-link to get the lock-up just right. I did a radical flat-top on the slide and tri-topped it to remove weight. I cut the rear serrations into what I refer to as a charging handle, with the leading edge cut deeply into the slide so the serrations are at an angle that gives a lot of traction. The rear sight has 30 lpi. checkering across the front and the slide is serrated just ahead of the sight base to help with emergency on-hand cycling. The Staccato magazines don't lock the slide back so I added a Klonimus slide-stop that incorporates a low-profile 'gas pedal' that is very effective.
Since this is a carry gun the trigger is what I call 'very intentional;' there is some slight take-up then you hit a hard wall. A little more pressure and the trigger breaks, in the conventional idiom, like breaking a glass rod. There is no perceptible overtravel and the reset is about 12/1000". The trigger pull is rather heavy but in rapid-fire strings and double-taps you really don't notice and accuracy does not seem to suffer. I'll see how it wears in and how I like it over time before deciding whether or not to alter it.
Testing was done with an assortment of JHPs, ball and flat-nosed ammo in a variety of weights and the gun eats it all up like candy. I really, really like this gun and once things are full settled in and the gun gets it's permanent finish (likely GunKote) it's going to be a carry gun. Yeah, it's 38 ounces but I am a big guy and with a good holster and gun-belt heavy guns have never bothered me.
