Posted: 11/24/2011 5:02:02 AM EDT
What say the hive mind on these pistols? |
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So true. They lock and handle like a huge 1911, I have an LAR Grizzly, and the Coonan is a nice handling 1911-type gun. Actually I bet some parts 1911 parts(such as the fire control parts etc) will interchange in a Coonan and LAR Grizzly. The ejector and extractors on my Grizzly looks exactly like a 1911. I have replaced the factory LAR recoil spring with a full-lenght Kings in my Grizzly with zero problems.
from what i have gathered from various forums is they actually funtion very nicely. good accurate reliable pistol. and they shoot a potent round. keep in mind they are not a 1911. just modeled to resemble one. that being said its on my short list. The trigger on the Coonan was very clean break. Probably one of the best factory triggers I have felt in a long time, that was 20+ years ago. |
| If just wanting the novelty of it , absolutely I'd get one, but if your just wanting sheer firepower from a 1911 take a look at one of these. |
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So true. They lock and handle like a huge 1911, I have an LAR Grizzly, and the Coonan is a nice handling 1911-type gun. Actually I bet some parts 1911 parts(such as the fire control parts etc) will interchange in a Coonan and LAR Grizzly. The ejector and extractors on my Grizzly looks exactly like a 1911. I have replaced the factory LAR recoil spring with a full-lenght Kings in my Grizzly with zero problems.
from what i have gathered from various forums is they actually funtion very nicely. good accurate reliable pistol. and they shoot a potent round. keep in mind they are not a 1911. just modeled to resemble one. that being said its on my short list. The trigger on the Coonan was very clean break. Probably one of the best factory triggers I have felt in a long time, that was 20+ years ago. 
I lusted after one for some time...but after handling one at a local shop I found the grip to be just a little too long. |
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Someone on the board, Combat_Diver I believe, has owned and speaks very highly of them.
ETA: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_5_36/106239_Coonan.html |
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I've got one of the older ones. It's the rarer model with factory installed compensator.
Awesome trigger, supper crisp and light. Adjustable sights but it came dead on the nuts so never had to adjust it. Very accurate. Gun had a lot of bark to it, definitely goes off with a bit more authority than most of the other pistols on the line, but it's got pretty manageable recoil. Personally I love the gun. Might sell it someday if I flat out need the money, but for no other reason. I do shoot my Wilson and SV a lot more, mostly because ammo is a lot cheaper. |
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I shot one back in the early nineties. The slide was a bit too loose for me, but it went bang every time. I thought Coonan when out of business a long while ago. they did. they resurfaced a while back and apparently have improved them a bit more. one of these days if they are still around i would like to get one. mostly for the pure wtf is that aspect of it and because i like quality guns that are a bit out of the norm. |
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Very nice looking weapon. Held one at the Knob Creek machine-gun shoot. Everything was very good except the grip was gigantic. Those .357s take a lot of room. You had better have a big hand! That's when and where I handled one for the first time. It was actually kind of cool meeting Dan Coonan too. |
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They did go out of business. Evidently, Dan Coonan is back now. I owned a Model B for a couple years. Paid $300 for it with two mags....
I sold one of the mags for like $125 and then sold the gun a year or two later for like $900-$1000. It was NEVER reliable. It was fun to shoot, but the magazines did not feed and cycle the long-winded round well at all. I had a FTF problem with at least one round on each full mag. I tried all different recoil spring weights without any luck. It was a pretty cool gun, but not reliable enough to keep when it was worth so much money at the time. |