40 Cal GPs

[BLR]

Since I was talked out of some Berettas, I figured my GP family need some "major" caliber representation:

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01536.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01537.jpg

Was definitely shot some.

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01538.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01540.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01542.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01543.jpg

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/blriehl/Beavercreek-20121020-01547.jpg

Easy to see where the barrels fail. And I'll be addressing this on my 9mm test gun when I get back fro Charleston.

The 40Cal version is much heavier. As in 1911 heavy. It has a beefy slide on it. I think the springs are out of whack too. 20-22 lbs on the recoil spring, but a very light hammer spring, likely to make the trigger pull lighter. Needs work, but they don't make new ones, so...

[bigslim]

google-fu is awesome, so this is a FN GP-35? basically BHP in 40 S&W? Nice

Mike

[JonInWA]

blr, it looks like your trigger and hammer have been replaced with Cylinder & Slide's excellent components; if you can't verify that the sear was concurrently replaced with one of theirs also, you (or your gunsmith, or Cylinder & Slide themselves) might want to replace the existing one accordingly. Similarly, I'd also as a matter of course replacing the recoil spring with a new one from Browning.

Best, Jon