Posted on 03/05/2014 4:18:58 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I don’t know if you know what year your gun was manufactured but I read that in the 80’s the company retrofitted a bunch of Spanish police .32’s on a trade for new .30’s. They totally rebuilt them as .380’s but had to do a lot of hand fitting and Star did not have enough personnel who knew the proper way to do it. So they had problems with those weapons. Could be you got one of those. Take it to a gunsmith. He’ll know.
Try using Italian gun grease for cleaning. Its good stuff.
I had that same problem with a Star 9mm, and a pretty good smith was unable to reproduce it. Given the number of different calibers I shoot successfully I don’t think it was limp-wristing, but I never really did solve it. All I can offer is a BTT and wish you the best of luck.
Only shot 5 rounds at a time on testing.
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Had 3 ppks not a bit of trouble with any of them.
After mine jammed, I did a search and found it was a common problem....may have just been the stainless ones, can’t remember.
Glad yours are problem free.
I always loved the PPK growing up a Bond fan, but the P232 is a refined and very similar pistol.......
I heard the stainless had more trouble my first two were German and super accurate.
Yeah, I heard the German ones were super-reliable too.
There was one Bond book though where his PPK jammed...think that’s when he went to some other pistol.........
Thank you very much!
And dern seldom go BANG if'n you don't tell 'em to.
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