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Post by lew on Aug 28, 2023 9:40:18 GMT -5
Navy Arms/Old Western Scrounger just got in a batch of MAC Mle. 50 pistols AND magazines! Thankfully, the French government has released these as surplus instead of sending them to the shredder. Get them while they're hot! www.ows-ammo.com/ |
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Post by craigtx on Aug 30, 2023 10:21:47 GMT -5
I saw that! Unfortunately, I don't have the funds available to take advantage of it.
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Post by lew on Aug 30, 2023 12:12:54 GMT -5
This looks like the vanguard of larger shipments of surplus French pistols, so you could probably wait.
I wanted to jump on it while the jumpin's for sure good and paid accordingly. Cheers!
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Post by earlymb on Sept 6, 2023 3:59:40 GMT -5
Can't access that site for some reason
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Post by craigtx on Sept 6, 2023 8:37:03 GMT -5
This looks like the vanguard of larger shipments of surplus French pistols, so you could probably wait. I wanted to jump on it while the jumpin's for sure good and paid accordingly. Cheers! You'll have to give us a range report after you test her out! |
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Post by lew on Sept 7, 2023 15:48:13 GMT -5
Range report: Great success!
I put two magazines into a fist-sized area at ten yards with my reloads. My brother put another mag through it. No issues. It's a very comfortable and well -thought out pistol. Should have been a double stack coming along in 1950, but oh well.
One of the mags I have won't trip the slide lock. I need to see if OWS will do anything about that.
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Post by craigtx on Sept 8, 2023 9:07:51 GMT -5
Good to hear! Hopefully they'll resolve the mag issue.
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Post by lew on Sept 9, 2023 21:43:25 GMT -5
They said send it back. I'm trying to get a return label, which I don't think terribly unreasonable. I'll await their response.
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Post by lew on Sept 11, 2023 11:24:46 GMT -5
Good news: They are sending a replacement magazine along with a return label for the defective one. A+ so far.
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Post by craigtx on Sept 13, 2023 7:38:16 GMT -5
Yup, sounds like primo customer service so far.
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Post by lew on Sept 19, 2023 12:30:54 GMT -5
Replacement mag works great. Defective one will be sent back to OWS.
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Post by earlymb on Sept 20, 2023 5:22:22 GMT -5
Replacement mag works great. Defective one will be sent back to OWS. Maybe you can keep it for cheap as a pouch filler? Just mark it as unserviceable for yourself |
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Post by lew on Sept 20, 2023 9:57:30 GMT -5
I had seriously considered that as the magazine otherwise works fine, but they (somewhat underhandedly, I think) drove up the price of spare mags $10 to $80 each. Since I already have five for a pistol that will only see occasional use, I'd rather send away the defective mag lest I be charged for it.
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Post by earlymb on Sept 22, 2023 5:04:05 GMT -5
I think they won't try to sell a defective magazine to someone else, so maybe it'll be cheaper as a display piece/pouch filler. Maybe just ask?
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Post by lew on Sept 25, 2023 10:20:15 GMT -5
Yep, I went ahead and asked. No response yet. If I get charged for it, no big deal, in contravention of my previous stance on the topic.
Probably wouldn't be hard to fix if I can find someone with a welder: the shelf on the magazine follower is sloped downward instead of horizontal to the plane of the pistol, so it's not tripping the slide stop. A little dab of weld and some profiling would have it back to 100%.
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