Quote from: Graybeard on August 20 2018 12:00:54 PM MDT
I thought it appeared to be very well made and easy to shoot. It's not really a 1911, but close enough that if you shoot 1911s well the Coonan is very familiar. Trigger was excellent. Recoil was less than my 10mm 10.4gr BlueDot 180gr hollow point load. Muzzle blast was way more.

I'd probably never buy one in .357 as it seemed to rip chunks out of the rims and make reloading for that gun a one time thing. The need of a tool to compress the mag spring to load mags isn't something I'd like.

It never jammed on any factory ammo and it was it's first trip to the range. Cool toy or hunting gun The owner knew someone who got it for him for under $1400, so I think he did well.

I've never seen a Coonan at the range. What's with the magazine tool? Something to deal with the rimmed cases?

Quote from: Caboose on August 19 2018 06:26:17 PM MDT
I almost forgot, the most important part of this range report is a new shooter that loves it.

Is he now shopping for something in 10mm? 

Quote from: Caboose on August 20 2018 06:36:10 PM MDT

Quote from: Graybeard on August 20 2018 12:00:54 PM MDT
I thought it appeared to be very well made and easy to shoot. It's not really a 1911, but close enough that if you shoot 1911s well the Coonan is very familiar. Trigger was excellent. Recoil was less than my 10mm 10.4gr BlueDot 180gr hollow point load. Muzzle blast was way more.

I'd probably never buy one in .357 as it seemed to rip chunks out of the rims and make reloading for that gun a one time thing. The need of a tool to compress the mag spring to load mags isn't something I'd like.

It never jammed on any factory ammo and it was it's first trip to the range. Cool toy or hunting gun The owner knew someone who got it for him for under $1400, so I think he did well.

I've never seen a Coonan at the range. What's with the magazine tool? Something to deal with the rimmed cases?

Coonan mags have slots on both sides that expose a round steel hole at the bottom of the follower. The tool is a rod you insert through that hole to compress the magazine spring.

Interesting method

I would suspect that 357 cartridges loaded with powders like H-110 - 296 or AA#9. maybe 2400 may exert pressures long enough to keep the casing expanded out to the chamber walls while extraction starts, thus ripping the rims.  Have seen that in semi auto rifles using slower burning powders.

Still wish Coonan would do a 10mm Magnum pistol based off the 357mag.