Re: WELCOME THREAD AND MEM, INFO
Posted: March 26th, 2013, 3:40 pm
Hello All,
New member and new to me P-64 owner. Stumbled on mine at a Gander Mt it St Augustine, FL. It's a 1969 in "good" condition. It has some holster wear on the muzzle, but other wise looks fine for a 43 yr old surplus pistol. After cleaning and ordering Wolff springs, (not installed until after I fired it) took to the range. I took one box Brown Bear and one box Silver Bear. Fired the first round D/A and it was as expected quite a hard pull and the round landed about 4.5" low and left. I kind of expected this, but the other 5 were quite an acceptable group. I do carry and shoot a S&W BG380 so the D/A action and recoil was not way out of line for me.
After two mags of Brown Bear I loaded a mag of Silver Bear. I found that in 50 rds of Silver Bear, in the same magazine, I had 4 stovepipes. Each occurred in either the 4th or 5th round in the magazine. ??? The 50 rounds of Brown Bear were absolutely flawless.
Somewhere near the 70 to 75 round range (or out 100 fired) I was totally amazed. This pistol is amazingly accurate. I shot a 6rd S/A group at 24ft that was literally one ragged hole. (I will post photo when I figure out how) I have never done that before with a pistol.
I do carry a BG380 in a Remora Holster as well as an Old Faithful leather/kydex. The P-64 fits amazingly snug and safely in each. I will not however carry the P-64 until I feel more comfortable with the safety (it operates backward from the BG380) and I fire it quite a bit more.
I was able to order Brown & Silver Bear 9x18 two weeks ago, however that too seems to have dried up. Wonder if DHS is after it too??
Thank you all for a very informative forum and I look forward to learning and sharing more about this amazing little firearm. I feel I will be on the lookout for another one now perhaps a mid 1970s triangle hammer vintage. Somehow one does not seem to be like it will be enough.
Regards,
New member and new to me P-64 owner. Stumbled on mine at a Gander Mt it St Augustine, FL. It's a 1969 in "good" condition. It has some holster wear on the muzzle, but other wise looks fine for a 43 yr old surplus pistol. After cleaning and ordering Wolff springs, (not installed until after I fired it) took to the range. I took one box Brown Bear and one box Silver Bear. Fired the first round D/A and it was as expected quite a hard pull and the round landed about 4.5" low and left. I kind of expected this, but the other 5 were quite an acceptable group. I do carry and shoot a S&W BG380 so the D/A action and recoil was not way out of line for me.
After two mags of Brown Bear I loaded a mag of Silver Bear. I found that in 50 rds of Silver Bear, in the same magazine, I had 4 stovepipes. Each occurred in either the 4th or 5th round in the magazine. ??? The 50 rounds of Brown Bear were absolutely flawless.
Somewhere near the 70 to 75 round range (or out 100 fired) I was totally amazed. This pistol is amazingly accurate. I shot a 6rd S/A group at 24ft that was literally one ragged hole. (I will post photo when I figure out how) I have never done that before with a pistol.
I do carry a BG380 in a Remora Holster as well as an Old Faithful leather/kydex. The P-64 fits amazingly snug and safely in each. I will not however carry the P-64 until I feel more comfortable with the safety (it operates backward from the BG380) and I fire it quite a bit more.
I was able to order Brown & Silver Bear 9x18 two weeks ago, however that too seems to have dried up. Wonder if DHS is after it too??
Thank you all for a very informative forum and I look forward to learning and sharing more about this amazing little firearm. I feel I will be on the lookout for another one now perhaps a mid 1970s triangle hammer vintage. Somehow one does not seem to be like it will be enough.
Regards,
