Imported Pistol/Revolver in 5 lakh Budget

[Vineet]

This is the second time you have posted these figures. I wonder what arithmetic you use to say that imported guns are 80-90 years old, when imports stopped in 1984, which is 41 years ago, or half the time you are portraying imported guns to be. Why do you feel the need to exaggerate?

I am not exaggerating. Goggle tells me Colt 1903 was made till 1945, CZ 27 was made till 1950, Mauser c96 was made till 1937.

[timmy]

This is the second time you have posted these figures. I wonder what arithmetic you use to say that imported guns are 80-90 years old, when imports stopped in 1984, which is 41 years ago, or half the time you are portraying imported guns to be. Why do you feel the need to exaggerate?

I am not exaggerating. Goggle tells me Colt 1903 was made till 1945, CZ 27 was made till 1950, Mauser c96 was made till 1937.

1. There are many more pistols than these.

2. There are no revolvers on your list.

[netwit]

This is the second time you have posted these figures. I wonder what arithmetic you use to say that imported guns are 80-90 years old, when imports stopped in 1984, which is 41 years ago, or half the time you are portraying imported guns to be. Why do you feel the need to exaggerate?

I am not exaggerating. Goggle tells me Colt 1903 was made till 1945, CZ 27 was made till 1950, Mauser c96 was made till 1937.

Vineet Ji,

if one considers the new weapons like MSD/Webley/Taurus/Werywin and rest of pack which in your opinion has better barrel quality.
few things which I am more concerned are following

i) Metallurgy of barrel or any specification about the kind of steel used like 4140/carbon steel/etc?
ii) prone to rusting

thanks

[Vineet]

Why is this so, and what data do you have to support this? My used guns show no such replacement of springs. Besides, the old Colts have flat mainsprings, which you have advised members to seek, because they have a smoother feel (which I do agree with). What new guns have such flat mainsprings today? This is not to say that coil springs are unreliable, as the oldest gun I own,a Martini Henry from the 1880s, has a coil mainspring and is in fine working order.

In the 56 years I have personally owned guns, I have only had to replace two magazine springs on my CZ70, and no others.

4-5 years back I owned 1960’s made Chinese TT pistol. I noticed that fired cases had dents on mouth. When I did a little research, I came to know that this could happen because of weak recoil spring.

Although its difficult in India to get original springs, I some how managed to get a new one and when I compared the lengths of both, I was surprised to see that the older one was around 2.5 centimeters shorter than the new one. It became shorter because of wear and tear. Putting the new spring solved the mouth dent issue.

Same thing i.e recoil spring becoming shorter because of wear and tear, I noticed on Luger, Mauser C96 pistol.