A buddy and I have 43Cs. Both have stars that look like this after 1000 rounds.
In addition they spit lead like this:
Is this normal? It is still firing. I cleaned it up but the lead itself is a PITA and not bothering things so I left it. I am afraid I will damage the frame scraping it off.
The star just doesn’t look great. This is a surprisingly low quality pistol for $600. My LCR 22 has zero of this drama with a much higher round count.