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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2014994" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>I hear horrible things about the Nambu as well as the Italian Astra, but the worst I have ever personally had experience with was a Lorcin .380 (same as Jennings, Davis, Jimenez, etc.), which I got on a trade back when I was a teenager. The front end of the slide got cracks in both sides and it was pulling up and rubbing on the barrel. It eventually got so it wouldn't function, so I hack-sawed the front of the slide off (these pieces of junk aren't even made to disassemble) and JB-welded it back together, lol. I guess I gummed it up too much or something because it still didn't work... probably a blessing. I still have it in a junk drawer somewhere, waiting for some agency in Oklahoma to do one of those ridiculous gun "buy backs." <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>You know, Hi-Point is actually OK in my book, because unlike those other cheapass pistol makers, they realized up front that "yes, we are going to make these hunks of junk out of very sub-par pot metal," and took this into account in the design, which is why they have such beefy slides. They remind me of some of the German last-ditch weapons that they were cranking out when they only had crap steel left. Just use a simple direct blowback design, and give the slide so much mass that extraction is slow enough that the pressure drops to a safe level before the case wall is exposed, even with the more powerful handgun rounds. Yes, the final product ends up being heavy and bulky, but there isn't really a whole lot that can go wrong, safety wise, with that type of design. Have you guys seen the hi-point torture tests on youtube?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2014994, member: 4235"] I hear horrible things about the Nambu as well as the Italian Astra, but the worst I have ever personally had experience with was a Lorcin .380 (same as Jennings, Davis, Jimenez, etc.), which I got on a trade back when I was a teenager. The front end of the slide got cracks in both sides and it was pulling up and rubbing on the barrel. It eventually got so it wouldn't function, so I hack-sawed the front of the slide off (these pieces of junk aren't even made to disassemble) and JB-welded it back together, lol. I guess I gummed it up too much or something because it still didn't work... probably a blessing. I still have it in a junk drawer somewhere, waiting for some agency in Oklahoma to do one of those ridiculous gun "buy backs." ;) You know, Hi-Point is actually OK in my book, because unlike those other cheapass pistol makers, they realized up front that "yes, we are going to make these hunks of junk out of very sub-par pot metal," and took this into account in the design, which is why they have such beefy slides. They remind me of some of the German last-ditch weapons that they were cranking out when they only had crap steel left. Just use a simple direct blowback design, and give the slide so much mass that extraction is slow enough that the pressure drops to a safe level before the case wall is exposed, even with the more powerful handgun rounds. Yes, the final product ends up being heavy and bulky, but there isn't really a whole lot that can go wrong, safety wise, with that type of design. Have you guys seen the hi-point torture tests on youtube? [/QUOTE]
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