Your favorite "saturday night special?" No gun hate please.

[wally]

I know a gun dealer that claims he can make some adjustments to a Jennings 9mm that will make it shoot and eject everytime.

I believe it. I did this to my .380 and .22. Never figured out a fix for the feed failures once the gun gets dirty ~40rnds with cheap ammo. But its always been OK again for a while after cleaning. The .25 was reliable out of the box once I removed the burrs from the mags that prevented me from loading them. Its always ran thru a box of 50 without failure, but with the price of .25ACP ammo I've not shot it very much.

I bought all three as a set at a gun show the weekend before the Brady Bill took effect as I figured I'd never go thru a waiting period and second trip to the store to ever buy them otherwise. I have them hanging proudly on the wall in a glass display case as thief bait Magazines are locked in the safe to reduce the usefullness to said thief.

They are reliable single shot pistols with significant possibility of multiple shots. But anyone poor enough to actually need to consider buying one IMHO should pick up aluinum cans along the highway until enough extra cash is obtained to buy one of the quality low cost surplus guns already mentioned instead.

--wally.

 

[Hawk]

And here I thought I was in the minority for wanting to buy stuff just because somebody whose politics I disliked was funding a bogus lawsuit.

I snagged a Bushie Dissipator upper for no better reason than Brady was pushing a "blame the gun" litigation right after the "D.C. Sniper episode". Bought it direct from the Bushmaster web site at what I suppose was full list.

And I don't even much care for EBR's.

If that "Jimenez" is the reborn Bryco, I'll have to get one just out of sheer unmitigated spite.

And... It'll be cheaper than that upper was, I'm betting.

 

[Berg01]

S.O.G.

Check out the surplus CZ-82 in 9X18 Makarov, or the Ruger GP-100 revolvers.

 

[AirForceShooter]

interesting what some people call a " Saturday Night Special"
Yes, you know who you are.

AFS

 

[Heavy Barrel]

Saturday night and every other night.

 

[RoyG]

This is my $50 pawn shop find. It's a first gen .45 Hi-Point. I don't like where the mag release is on these. It's on the heel of the grip. The first gens don't lock the slide back after last round. Also you have to let the slide slam forward. If you ride it you get a feed hangup. But I bought it for a range plinker.

Here's a target with 50 rounds through it at about 25 feet. No FTF/FTE during firing.

 

[Mad Hatter]

That would be.....

My Raven .25

Light, dead reliable and small. would work for shirt-pocket carry if concealed carry was legal here. (WI) Only problem is getting brass for reloading. It ejects straight up and back, and most brass hits the top of my head and then goes flying off in any and every direction. Can't argue it isn't underpowered for anything but mice, but it does go bang every time.

 

[shu]

had a Heritage Stealth 9mm automatic for a few years which i was quite fond of. gas retarded blowback action, so a rather stiff recoil spring and therefore a bit of a trick to remove the slide. 10 rounds of 9mm in small package, striker fired, with manual safety. magazine was same cross-section as beretta 92, so beretta mags could be used if a properly placed locking slot were cut in.

i was quite fond of the gun, carried it alot. however the front lug of the slide cracked one day after i went thru a box of cci blazers (which do have a hefty recoil). heritage replaced the slide, but i later traded the gun in toward a 357mag bisley vaquero (yeah!).

 

[Shear_stress]

Though a few folks have recommended "eastern European surplus", no one has mentioned the Arcus by name. These are well-made, sturdy, accurate guns that will give an unmodified High Power a run for its money. The gun store I got mine from had no idea what it was, and gave me some guff for comparing it to a Browning they had in stock. The Arcus was just as well made!

 

[GaryP]

Sterling Arms Company Model 302 22lr auto. Other than MF's due to bad ammo this little jewel was an excellent plinker and fun gun for the 5 years I had it. Would be an excellent deep cover CCW gun today!

 

[Bill2k1]

H&R 9 shot .22 revolver, its a fun thing to shoot. But it has a busted part and is out of service till I can find a replacement part or whatever. It took me forever to ID the gun.

 

[badgerrr]

The RG 66. It's the single action .22 that I started my handgun career with. Not exactly top of the line, but a good solid revolver for the money a teenager has to pay.