RAP 401 longevity and parts availability...

[The Undertoad]

I've done a search and read the cruffler.com review, and it seems everyone who's handled one is pretty enthusiastic about these little pistols especially given the price point. But from what I had seen most of the posts and range reports were from "early" in the life of the handgun.

How do they hold up over time? How many rounds have you fed yours? Is there a source for replacement parts? I looked on Century's website, saw nothing. Also found nothing at Egun parts which was mentioned in a previous thread as the place to get parts. I'm thinking about getting one of these but am worried about what could possibly happen a few years in the future if I broke a firing pin or something like that.

Come on, there has to be someone out there who's used the snot out of their RAP.

 

[JackDRipper]

Haven't shot the snot out of mine but I like it!
Someone has one for sale here in their sig line.
JR

 

[The Undertoad]

Thanks Jack, glad you like it. That's arinvolvo, and I'm currently talking to him about buying it.

 

[Preacherman]

Mine has held up just fine. Don't forget that the RAP 401 is a clone of the Astra A-75: magazines from the latter work in the former, and I suspect several of the smaller parts would fit too. I haven't tried this, but I'm told that extractors, firing pins, etc. will "cross over" if needed.

On the other hand, for a $200 gun, why bother? The cost of repairs (including gunsmith's labor costs, etc.) will rapidly approach the value of the gun. If mine breaks, it goes in the "parts" bin, and I have plenty of others to shoot!

 

[albanian]

I had a RAP-401 in 9mm. It was O.K. at first but then it developed a strange problem. When I dry fired it, it would hit the half cock notch and stay there about 50% of the time. It would dry fire normally on the 1st pull of the trigger and then it would come to rest on the half cock notch. A gun that only fires half the time is not much use to me.

I tried to find parts to fix it but there are none in the U.S. I tried to sell it to local dealers but none of them would take it for ANY price. I am not joking. I couldn't get rid of the thing because either nobody had heard of it and they didn't trust it or they didn't think they could re-sell it.

I bought it because of the price but after shipping, FFL transfer and extra mag, it was not cheap at all. I ended up taking a huge loss on it when I traded it for a snubbie.

It seemed well made but it didn't turn out that way.