by j2342 » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:52 pm
caveat emptor? I own one of these and well I would regard it as better then nothing, really its decently built , its heavy and feels solid. it fits a pocket well but way to heavy so swings like mad.
now for the bad news. with a stock trigger pull you will probably not hit anything unless the guy is literaly within arms reach. with a LOT of practice you can be decent with the gun. after you drop the pull down to more like 8 lbs , i set mine around 7 and smoothed it up a lot. stock pulls some have been unreadable as in max. out the scale at the gun shop. 14lbs! is not unheard of.
think of the wieght of this gun and its long pull at 14lbs and you can understand its horrible. it gets worse, this in not the type of gun you can practice a lot with. serious design flaw is the trigger return spring, you can smooth the edges that will try to harm it during installation an duse, but it still seem sto have a short and unpredictable service life. I have had them go from 150 rounds or so up to about 400 rounds i think it was. i also had one snap at about 30 rounds and i went to thier forum and some people have had thiers go on the first box also. one person has the firing pin assembly come out of the gun and smacl him in the kisser while shooting. I did a lot of neat stuff with this gun from a gunsmithing experiment kind of way, but it was easy to determine from my experiences and those of others.
This gun is not for self defense!, self defense has to work as close to 99% of the time , hopefully 100%. this gun has a design flaw that left me pulling air several times, trigger connected but did not return, and I have under 1000 rounds through it, it also is one to frequently jam ramp polishing HELPS not fixes this. many stove pipe the last round. last round doesn't bother me really, its annoying, however its the only gun i ever saw pop out a live round and pick up the next one and this was in its stock condition, its seems to have been built to throw the brass at the shooter, I would not want to shoot this without eye protection ever. your bad guy gonna wait for you to get your eyes on? it was after all these issues.
i wrote off ever relying on this gun. NAA has great customer support it seems but to me that didn't matter, i could not see a good way to replace the trigger return design. without that it was nothing but a curiosity. sending it to NAA would have gotten me a new spring but that would not change what it is.
oh and the toys , the laser pointer , save yourself the money. its worthless it changes as your grip changes, so as you pull the trigger it moves, I made custom grips that stopped this (hard mounted the back of the LASER), and was going to make more stuff for it when this gun was made obsolete.
by Kahrs smallest 9MM and the fact in our state off duty police must carry a bigger caliber weapon. if you want one cheap let me know, mine is working and for sale cheap:)
did I mention it kicks like a 9mm with that blowback operation? save yourself time money and aggravation. get a kahr or smarter still smith n wessons tiniest 357 and put some 38plus p's or if your really love recoil of outragious proprtions 357s, gun can take it , human hands ?? but think its lighter, smaller jamming is extremely unlikely and its a man stopper, or if you tame your ammo a man discourager, all ammo can kill of course , but few do so as well as a 357M.
mini-micro platforms semi autos just don't make sense to me. tolerances and timings get more critical and thats the enemy of reliability. also you only getting a few more rounds sometimes only 1 or 2 for all that added risk of a jam and you have to clear it. not just pull again.
kahr pm9 and baby glock 26,27,33 is small as I would go. if seecamp is just like these, as they seem to be , i would not own one of them either unless free