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Grizz wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:50 am
that looks like fun.
I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy this when it was retail:
they are rather dear now
I wonder how reliable they are if anyone has one . . .
A hunting uncle had one circa early 1980s.....I had to use the middle finger to manipulate the heavy trigger.
Never actually hit anything but the caliche shale pit berm with it but it was a flamethrower with full .357 loads.
This had to be in late 1981 or early 1982 because we moved far away from there in the summer of 1982.
I'm not sure when COP inc. was formed or when the guns were actually shipped but the Hilburg patent for the improvement on the ratcheting firing pin system of sharps and later mossberg brownie was granted in 1983. Absolutely sure I shot one at least one year earlier than that.
The little 22 would be fun. I'd prefer the NAA 22 WMR mini-revolver for defensive use, but there is an appeal to the pepperbox due to the history of such little guns.
As far as the COP 357 Mag, a friend bought his wife one, and she loved it, probably because it was so unique, and she liked to flaunt eccentricity, but I shot it in the late 1980's I think, and the trigger pull was definitely terrible. Of course it was intended as an arms-length defensive gun, and for that it wouldn't matter much, and the heavier trigger would be safer in pocket or purse.
Interesting how much technology has improved the 'pocket pistol' - for the size and heft of that 4-shot 357 with a clunky trigger pull and dubious accuracy, one can now carry a 12-shot double-stack 1911 in 45 ACP, and for the overall size of the 22 LR pepperbox, I think my 6+1 shot 9mm SIG 938 would be about the same size. Going by weight, the NAA 22 WMR probably weighs less than the pepperbox, and is smaller.
Still I like the little pepperbox. If someone gets one, I hope they post a Range Report...!
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I'm still with the LCP. Seven up and 10 in the spare, equal to the XD with full size mag, so around 32 rounds between them when I have both onboard.....
Grizz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:16 am
I'm still with the LCP. Seven up and 10 in the spare, equal to the XD with full size mag, so around 32 rounds between them when I have both onboard.....
Do you have an extended mag(s)? The 0nly ones I know of are 6+1.
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Grizz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:16 am
I'm still with the LCP. Seven up and 10 in the spare, equal to the XD with full size mag, so around 32 rounds between them when I have both onboard.....
Do you have an extended mag(s)? The 0nly ones I know of are 6+1.
Yes I have one ten round pro-mag, but now that the state has gone crazy I'm going to get some more.
YMMV, but I like that it's stainless, and think it's a neat little gun, and can only hope that it will function well.
a little company, I think it was called HJS, made one just like that in stainless steel...I have one and it is a very reliable and fairly accurate little thing
"A hunting uncle had one circa early 1980s.....I had to use the middle finger to manipulate the heavy trigger.
Never actually hit anything but the caliche shale pit berm with it but it was a flamethrower with full .357 loads."
ah, the infamous COP [supposedly meant 'compact off duty police' }
I bought one back then,....the trigger pull was atrocious right out of the box....but, if you kept on using it ...it got WORSE and worse !
a friend who kept using his, said it eventually would not work at all.......I kept mine for years, and sold it for lots more than I paid....told the guy how bad it was....but he had bought into the legend and wouldn't believe me.
Grizz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:16 am
I'm still with the LCP. Seven up and 10 in the spare, equal to the XD with full size mag, so around 32 rounds between them when I have both onboard.....
Do you have an extended mag(s)? The 0nly ones I know of are 6+1.
Yes I have one ten round pro-mag, but now that the state has gone crazy I'm going to get some more.
