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I shot one roughly 5 years ago. A friend pulled it from the back of his safe to shoot after it had been sitting for over a decade.
Shooting it made it abundantly clear that a lot of progress has been made since this gun came out .

1) its a straight blowback design and recoil is surprisingly unpleasant.
2) Its a straight blowback design and the recoil spring is pretty stiff. There is no way a new shooter or someone with compromised hand strength could run this gun reliably.
3) its a single action gun with a TINY safety located where the mag release would normally be. Despite being single action the trigger is terrible.
4) its heavy
5) its ugly.
6) its unreliable. I don't think I could get through more than a mag or two without a failure to feed.

[QUOTE="dcmdon, post: 9452715, member: 12555"] I shot one roughly 5 years ago. A friend pulled it from the back of his safe to shoot after it had been sitting for over a decade. Shooting it made it abundantly clear that a lot of progress has been made since this gun came out . 1) its a straight blowback design and recoil is surprisingly unpleasant. 2) Its a straight blowback design and the recoil spring is pretty stiff. There is no way a new shooter or someone with compromised hand strength could run this gun reliably. 3) its a single action gun with a TINY safety located where the mag release would normally be. Despite being single action the trigger is terrible. 4) its heavy 5) its ugly. 6) its unreliable. I don't think I could get through more than a mag or two without a failure to feed. [/QUOTE]

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