Ruger Security 380acp

Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Picked one of these up today. It feels really nice in the hand. I stopped at the range on the way home. Only ammo I had that I could remember I had was 95gr fmj Magtec. I bought this years ago for the old lady to practice with her LCP. She never really liked it, neither did I.

I ran two mags of 15rds through it. I will say it is super soft shooting just like everyone has said about this gun. Now I have to cast up some of the Lee 358-105 swc. I just hand cycled a whole mag through it and it fed them fine. I only had 20 rnds of these loaded for the LCP. I have a feeling I am going to set the LCP in the safe and start carrying this new one. I just have to vet it first.
 
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CZ93X62

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That is an interesting little pistol. The 10-round magazine option listed as 'State-Compliant' might qualify it for sale in the Pipple's Reespoobleek of Kalifornistan. None of the Ruger self-loading pistols are authorized for sale here last time I looked. Hoplophobia has been here lots longer than COVID-19.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Went out shooting for a little bit today. I ran 100rds through the gun. I had 1 fail to chamber. It was a GFL case. They are thicker walled than everything else. You can actually feel it when seating the bullets in them. I used my thumb and pushed the slide closed and it fired. But I could feel it was tight when pushing it closed. It passes the plunk test so the rounds were not too long or large for the chamber.

It was shooting about 3" to the left. But I am sure that was just me. It was grouping a nice 3.5" group at 15yds. I was able to dance around plastic soda bottles all over the short range out to about 30yds. That is good enough for me.

I was shooting mixed brass with win sp primers and SW Auto Pistol powder at 3.7gr. There is no load data for this bullet or powder. I emailed SW and they told me I should be able to go up to 4.1gr with the Lee 358-105swc sized to 0.356" I think I am going to load some more up to 4gr. Right now the pistol is throwing brass about a foot to my 4 o'clock. I would like to have just a little more ejection than that. And the brass has a little more carbon on it than I would like. Usually that means it is a lite load for that powder.

Man this thing feels like shooting a 22rf there is so little recoil. Very happy with it so far. No fouling at all in the barrel so the size must be right. I did not slug it.
 
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popper

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My error, it was a S. Korea Daewoo 380. Had that funny bell on the barrel vs a bushing. It was a pretty accurate pistol IIRC, guy next to me on the bench had it. Don't know what the lockup mechanism was. I had a Star (Astra?) 380 yrs ago, nice copy of 1911 without the grip safety. She hid it when the kids were little, never could find it.
 
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popper said:
My error, it was a S. Korea Daewoo 380. Had that funny bell on the barrel vs a bushing. It was a pretty accurate pistol IIRC, guy next to me on the bench had it. Don't know what the lockup mechanism was. I had a Star (Astra?) 380 yrs ago, nice copy of 1911 without the grip safety. She hid it when the kids were little, never could find it.
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Llama and Star had some smaller-series 1911-series clones in the 1980s. The Llamas were iffy, but the Stars were decent. I had usage of a Star PD in 45 ACP that was very nice and ate everything--back in the day compact 45s were rare and one that would feed castings right out of the box was VERY rare. Several guys at work carted them around off-duty.

Star BM and BKM were nice full-size 1911 clones in 9mm. A friend has one that I found spare mags for about 30 years ago (Triple-K in San Diego). It is a nice shooting 9mm

None of these 1911 clones came with a grip safety.
 
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Rushcreek

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My Star PD experience is similar.
When we shot bowling pins with our Colts, any problem rounds were thrown into a coffee can.
The Star was the cleanup batter. If a round jammed the Star, that round was cast over the fence.
A friend bought the little Detonics and it wasn’t half the gun the Star was- in accuracy or reliability.
A slight correction- the Star B and B Super are the full size 9 mm(Luger or Largo) pistols.
The BM(steel frame) and BKM( alloy frame) are Commander size 9mm Luger pistols.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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At the range right now. The lee 105gr and 4.0gr of auto pistol is running 838fps avg with a 9sd. The magtec 95gr fmj factory ammo came in at 888fps with sd of 5
 
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popper

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I never knew who made the Star, thought it was Astra. Mine was a Star and I thought very good quality. Didn't shoot it but once. Had an armed break-in in down the street, she was home alone with the kids so I got it for her. She never shot it either. From looking around appears it actually was an Star model D in 380.
 
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Petrol & Powder

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popper said:
I never knew who made the Star, thought it was Astra. Mine was a Star and I thought very good quality. Didn't shoot it but once. Had an armed break-in in down the street, she was home alone with the kids so I got it for her. She never shot it either. From looking around appears it actually was an Star model D in 380.
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Star and Astra were separate companies until the twilight of those firms resulted in a merger and then failure. Spanish firearms firms are always something of a collection of family businesses with unusual ties to one another. It is impossible to lump Spanish firearms into one definition. (although many people attempt to do so).

Spanish firearm manufacturer can be a large factory with a lot of machinery and employees, or it can be a shop in someone’s house. The quality runs the same gamut; excellent to downright shoddy and everything in between.
 
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