Quality of MAB pistol?
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Ummm........it's French. Enough said.
MAB's quality is decent, but they're not exactly widespread.
I would have no problem using (if I had to) one of the larger 9mm MAB's (Notice the French stopped making their own pistols and went to the Beretta 92?), but I've never handled a .25 MAB.
I wouldn't trust my life to a French pistol. The FAMAS rifle? Sure. Pistol? Nah. They don't have enough experience making them.
MAB's quality is decent, but they're not exactly widespread.
I would have no problem using (if I had to) one of the larger 9mm MAB's (Notice the French stopped making their own pistols and went to the Beretta 92?), but I've never handled a .25 MAB.
I wouldn't trust my life to a French pistol. The FAMAS rifle? Sure. Pistol? Nah. They don't have enough experience making them.
BluesBear
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I owned a MAB .25 many years ago for about 2 months.
It was a pretty decent Browning copy. It was solid and well machined.
There's a gentleman down Portland OR way who has a nice collection of early 6.35 pistols. He has a MAB that looks dang new brand new.
When I got mine somewhere around 1970 it wouldn't fire. The striker spring had taken a set and it just wouldn't pop a primer. That striker spring was my very first purchase from Numrich Arms Corp. (now e-gunparts.com)
With one magazine it was 100% reliable with the other it was 75% at best.
I traded it and $20 for a genuine Browning .25.
It too needed a new striker spring. :banghead:
Any guess what my second purchase from Numrich was?
It was a pretty decent Browning copy. It was solid and well machined.
There's a gentleman down Portland OR way who has a nice collection of early 6.35 pistols. He has a MAB that looks dang new brand new.
When I got mine somewhere around 1970 it wouldn't fire. The striker spring had taken a set and it just wouldn't pop a primer. That striker spring was my very first purchase from Numrich Arms Corp. (now e-gunparts.com)
With one magazine it was 100% reliable with the other it was 75% at best.
I traded it and $20 for a genuine Browning .25.
It too needed a new striker spring. :banghead:
Any guess what my second purchase from Numrich was?
Politics aside, French pistols as a group are pretty good and well made. A lot of people who praise Walther pistols and condemn anything French don't know that most post-war Walthers were made in France by Manurhin and assembled in Germany. I own several French pistols, including a MAB P-15, which I have shot a lot and is built like a tank, and I have shot the hell out of a Unique .22 that Sears sold once upon a time; it still works fine.
Actually, French rifles are very well made, too; it is their designs that leave a lot to be desired. They just seem to have to do things differently.
Jim
Actually, French rifles are very well made, too; it is their designs that leave a lot to be desired. They just seem to have to do things differently.
Jim
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