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I appreciate your review. I have a Star BM as well and aside from it not having a lefty-friendly safety I'm pretty happy about it. I did the same magazine safety removal the first afternoon I had it as well.
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I've had a couple of these for going on 10 years, purchased the last time they were imported by CAI.
One has been a reliable range blaster, the other sitting in my truck in another city as a last-ditch defense. Big fan of 'em, and glad they're getting more widely sold and used recently. Well worth the cheap price. The only problem has been availability and cost of magazines...and I've been using this latest batch of imports as an opportunity to buy more magazines. |
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I just purchased one and now I’m just waiting for it to ship. All of my guns are polymer striker fired with the exception of the Sig P938 I bought my wife. I don’t know for sure, but seems the BM’s trigger resembles the P938’s an awful lot, at least in function.
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I just sold mine on gunboards forum. It is a neat gun in it's own way I suppose, but something about it just didn't suit me. I'd never carry a gun that heavy and it is too compact to be a great target gun, so I sold it. Oh well.
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Mine won’t be a carry gun, except in certain circumstances. It’ll ride in a cheap holster in my center console; good enough to slip into my waistband when I’m not otherwise carrying (to and from work) and make a stop or something. My G19 will come out of the car.
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Post how hard it was to disassemble the RSA and install the Wolff
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Post how hard it was to disassemble the RSA and install the Wolff View Quote Just put the round end in a padded vice, compress the spring a bit and screw off the big end. Re-assembly is the same, but in reverse. The third one was a challenge as some well meaning idiot used red loctite on the threads. That one took some work to get loose and then clean Loctite off the threads. |
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Mine is a 77 date, serial number in the range 1,432,9xx range. It has the full length firing pin. I'll probably install a new recoil spring before too long. It came with two mags, one with a rounded follower and two slots cut in the side of the mag, and the other with a follower that is flat and looks more 1911 follower and three short slots cut in the side of the mag. Interestingly enough, the mag with the flat follower is an extremely tight fit in my gun, it works, but regardless if the magazine safety is in the gun or not it has to be pulled out of the gun with some effort. Has anyone else experienced this with their gun? Also, what holsters have you used to carry it? I'm looking for something IWB and prefer leather.
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Yeah, I have the same two mags you do. Rounded follower drops right out, flat follower doesn’t.
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the chromed round follower mags are factory. It should also have a little tab that stick out of the bottom of the mag floorplate when seated. the other one sounds like a Triple-K mag, and some of those work, some don't
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You think these were imported with Triple K mags? More likely they’re just older and newer versions; the pistols underwent some changes over the years, not unreasonable to think the mags did too.
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Yep, that's exactly like the one I have that has to be pried out of the gun. It works fine, I have had zero issues with it other than that. Good to know it's not a factory mag, thanks.
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Went AIM to pick up my Zastava 70 and walked out with a Star too. Hopefully I'll get to try it out this weekend.
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I picked up a Super B a couple years ago and really enjoy it. It needed a new recoil spring and was missing the detent under the safety. I need a new set of grip screws if anyone has a dealer.
After months of telling myself that I didn't need the BM nor do I need to start a Star collection, I broke down and ordered the BM. Spent the extra $50 to get a nice one. I'll pick it up on Sat. Now I need a Model B but those look much harder to find. |
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Just picked up. Looks brand new. Attached File
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Arrived today. Decent shape. 1977. A good cleaning and some oxpho blue should clean up nicely. View Quote |
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Quoted: Thanks for posting. I'm on the fence after seeing these on their site just today. I'm hoping to get one in good condition, but seems like it a roll of the dice. Unless I pay their added fee, but still no guarantee. View Quote |
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I didn’t say they didn’t exist, I said it was unlikely that they were imported from Spain with Triple K mags. *Edit based on above: but hey, I’ve been wrong before. Here are my two, one flat and the other rounded. Flat follower on the left: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2207/84C02F14-D5DC-489A-AF50-993C97998B89-556297.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2207/E2A841F0-ACB6-4DD4-876F-2639F112C55E-556298.jpg View Quote |
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Mine wont feed the first 147 gr about 95% of the time. It will normally feed the rest in the mag.
124 and 115 fmj have been my only really reliable loads. I think that the old style, Federal 9BP load is going to work. I have fired 100 of them with no issues. |
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I’ve got two mags w/round followers and two flat.
The original mags run all 147 gr. just fine but some 147 gr. will bind in the aftermarket mags. Great pistol, hard to beat for the price. |
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