Okay, so I bought me two used PP clone FEG Hungarian .32 acp AP7's for $150 each the other day, one was like it was never used all black anodized frame with handling wear showing up, the other one I had to actually talk the pawn shop dealer down from $225 just cause the frame had been hand polished amateurishly leaving black anodizing around the pins, mag catch and trigger well and I hate sporterized guns but I needed a spare magazine, though ironicially two hours later I went to a gun shop in the next town to search their junk mag bin and actually found two excellent mags for $10 each(what luck). I am pretty sure I am painting the polished frame pistol either with barbeque black or something else dark so I can use this as a better concealed carry pistol.
What a bad day, in some ways, cause the buffed example when I figured out how to take the slide off, the hold open catch flew out and the hold open lever spring-slot is an open slot design that got buffed, not allowing the spring to retain, but the other pistol has a slot machined to retain the spring, but the buffed example didn't have the slot buffed away but it was already an open design, I had to scratch a minor slot for the spring inside of the spring head slot to retain the spring head somewhat during reassembly. Unfortunately, the hammer pin on the buffed frame pistol turned out to be sheared in half, but the pistol operated anyway until the grips were removed, then half fell out, but ordered another pin thankfully from Mark Kubes buymilsurp.com for about $12 shipped, only good thing is that there is a custom set of grips on this buffed example that are slim and very fancy.
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Main point is I would like to get another set of slim line grips, I am thinking walther pp/ppk fits? Really, I plan on putting slim line grips on the better example cause it has that finger rest "bump" on the left side grip like they all do, that protrudes out too much for my liking if I use it in a slim line pocket holster or such. Of course, those with experience already know, unlike a regular reader looking to learn more, that they made these in 9x18 and .380, I believe all the mags are the same but unsure(which is why maybe I was lucky getting two spare mags for ten bucks apiece in a "mag bin"). Wouldn't it be interesting if I could just switch barrels and have one in a different caliber? I wonder.....
What a bad day, in some ways, cause the buffed example when I figured out how to take the slide off, the hold open catch flew out and the hold open lever spring-slot is an open slot design that got buffed, not allowing the spring to retain, but the other pistol has a slot machined to retain the spring, but the buffed example didn't have the slot buffed away but it was already an open design, I had to scratch a minor slot for the spring inside of the spring head slot to retain the spring head somewhat during reassembly. Unfortunately, the hammer pin on the buffed frame pistol turned out to be sheared in half, but the pistol operated anyway until the grips were removed, then half fell out, but ordered another pin thankfully from Mark Kubes buymilsurp.com for about $12 shipped, only good thing is that there is a custom set of grips on this buffed example that are slim and very fancy.
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Main point is I would like to get another set of slim line grips, I am thinking walther pp/ppk fits? Really, I plan on putting slim line grips on the better example cause it has that finger rest "bump" on the left side grip like they all do, that protrudes out too much for my liking if I use it in a slim line pocket holster or such. Of course, those with experience already know, unlike a regular reader looking to learn more, that they made these in 9x18 and .380, I believe all the mags are the same but unsure(which is why maybe I was lucky getting two spare mags for ten bucks apiece in a "mag bin"). Wouldn't it be interesting if I could just switch barrels and have one in a different caliber? I wonder.....