IOF ASHANI .32 pistol

[pokhar]

Dear all,
Can someone please share, at the time of buying an iof handgun from a dealer, how to check weather weapon is brand new and not from resale one. Other than the visual inspection is there any paperwork to be checked to verify the same.
Thanks

[Vineet]

Dear all,
Can someone please share, at the time of buying an iof handgun from a dealer, how to check weather weapon is brand new and not from resale one. Other than the visual inspection is there any paperwork to be checked to verify the same.
Thanks

Brand new will have high invoice value like 90k or one lac where as second will have much lower invoice value like 15k or 20k.

[pokhar]

Thanks a ton vineet ji,
Your comments Always provide a perfect guidence.
Regards

[pokhar]

WHERE SHOULD IT BE REPORTED IF FOUND SOMETHING WRONG IN THIS THREAD. WHILE GOING THROUGH OLD POSTS FOR SOME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ASHANI, FOUND POST WHICH MAY CONTAIN VIRUS.

[timmy]

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[rs123in]

[pokhar]

Dear all, I saw RFI mark 2 at dealer's shop and found too much play in slide/barrel. Is it normal ? Although there was some play also visible in GSF pistol's slide too, but it was less as compare to RFI mark2. These all were brand new. Oil was applied in GSF pistols which was giving some glued effect and once he applied wd40 in one of them little play(loosening) observed afterwards. kindly guide on it.
Regards

[Vineet]

Dear all, I saw RFI mark 2 at dealer's shop and found too much play in slide/barrel. Is it normal ? Although there was some play also visible in GSF pistol's slide too, but it was less as compare to RFI mark2. These all were brand new. Oil was applied in GSF pistols which was giving some glued effect and once he applied wd40 in one of them little play(loosening) observed afterwards. kindly guide on it.
Regards

Some play is ok but if the play is too much then try another piece. Also I have noticed that when magazine is removed from the pistol, the play increases and when the magazine is put back into the pistol, the play reduces.

[pokhar]

Some play is ok but if the play is too much then try another piece. Also I have noticed that when magazine is removed from the pistol, the play increases and when the magazine is put back into the pistol, the play reduces.

Thank you vinit ji,
will try to check different piece of rfi mk2 and in gsf with/without the magazine.
Regards

[jitsingh1977]

I saw new launch of ashani .32 mark 2A with cerakot finish with wooden grip and rail, do anyone have any review of this new pistol by IOF,

[blarerin]

ASHANI MK - IIA WITH GUIDED RAIL ( CERAKOTED )

Attached photos, specification and price

MK-IIA Cerakote.JPG

MK-IIA Cerakote 2.JPG

[casual shooter]

Very hard spring
The barrel spring of my .32 IOF Ashani is very hard , can anything be done for it. Any replacements,
looking for advice.
regards

[timmy]

I take it that you are referring to the spring that forces the slide back into battery (pushes the slide closed, reloading a new round)?

If so, consider what this spring does: The Ashani is a blowback action pistol, which means that, when the gun is fired, there is no lock that keeps the slide closed and seals the chamber of the barrel.

There are only two things that keep the slide from flying open before the bullet leaves the barrel:

Firstly, there is the weight of the slide. You know that it takes more force to push a heavy object than it does a light one: this is called inertia, the property of something with mass (in our case, the slide of the Ashani) to remain in the state it is in: if it is moving it wants to stay moving, and if it is stationary (again, like the slide of the Ashani) it wants to stay stationary.

The same force that is pushing against the bullet, causing it to accellerate out of the barrel and on to its destination, is pushing against the slide, overcoming its inertia and forcing the slide open. The weight of the slide is carefully calculated to ensure that the bullet has left the barrel before the brass cartridge case is pulled from the barrel chamber, which would allow the hot gasses to escape out of the ejection port.

You might imagine that there's a lot of pressure inside the barrel chamber to push the bullet out at high speed, and you would be right: a fired cartridge in the Ashani develops about 1400 atmospheres of pressure initially! Of course, this much pressure leaking out could be enough to ruin your day!

But there is another resistance that this pressure has to overcome beside the weight and inertia of the slide: this is the recoil spring. So, part of that 1400 atmospheres of pressure overcomes the inertia of the slide, and part of it compresses the recoil spring.

Here, you should see that there is a balance that's needed to keep the chamber sealed until after the bullet leaves the barrel: If the slide is made lighter, the spring must be made heavier. If the spring is made lighter, the slide must be made heavier.

The designers want a light weight pistol -- nobody wants to carry a brick in their pocket! So the slide is made fairly light and the recoil spring is made heavier, to keep the pistol's weight down to a reasonable level.

This is why you cannot adjust the recoil spring to make the slide easier to retract and cycle the action. The spring must be strong to resist the high pressure of firing the cartridge.

More powerful guns, like a 9mm or 45 Auto, for instance, use a locked breach action (usually a Browning-type called "short recoil" to physically lock the breach until the bullet has left the barrel. These rounds are too powerful for a practical pistol: the slide would have to be too heavy and the recoil spring too heavy for either of these more powerful cartridges to work under the blowback principle. However, with a shoulder arm, like a STEN or an M3 "Grease Gun," the extra weight of a blowback action can be used with these cartridges. But with a smaller gun, like a handgun, the gun becomes too heavy.

There are a few pistols that are made with a locked breach in 32 Automatic that I know off, offhand: Keltec makes such a pistol, as does Llama. The Llama looks like a little 1911.

But with the Ashani, as with the great percentage of 32 Auto pistols, the stiff recoil spring is the price that must be paid for a small, light weight pistol.

[casual shooter]

Thanks chief,
I am a doctor with not so tough hands, and hence looking forward to the launch of new age revolvers from IOF/ werywin defense as replacements.
regards.