Let's say a fella had racked up some credit card debt on top of his mortgage and car payment. Murphy having been a grunt, let's also assume that our gentleman lost his job leading into the holidays. Not being a wheelgunner, patient, or a tinkerer, he opted to sell his BG38 cheap owing to its nonfunctional laser.
And now I have another snub for SCCY pricing having helped out my mechanic's kid. For it maiden range day, I grabbed a thrift shop hoodie and ran through the OPOTA handgun qualification (but with the first retention shooting string fired from a sweater pocket). 4' to 16 2/3 yards with some variety in the course of fire to get a feel for the little thing. Scored a full 25/25 in time and, more to the point, on a sheet of printer paper and inner flat of a paper plate. The junior legal pad sheet was a more ideal zone but running a flyweight 38 Special like I would my .22 LCR didn't leave me too disappointed.
Ammo used was a mix of some estate-sale 158gr LSWC +P handloads (20' reload stage), Precision Delta 148gr wadcutter creampuffs, and Lost River's standard pressure wadcutters (30' and 50' strings). The latter recoiling closer to the +P load than the mellow target wadcutter.
Still need to source a small selection of grips, try out some loads, possibly regulate the sights, see if I can fix the laser or want to bother calling the mothership, get a brace of Mika pocket holsters, bake a kydex AIWB rig, and maybe another DB Force Option pocket holster. Then decide what role the gun will play in the safe. Possibly being passed on to a new closing-shift cashier in the social circle or living in the car lockbox.
For now, I am wondering if people have been a bit unfair to this model. Yes, the trigger curvature is tight and rubs the top of my finger joint when shooting, the gun is homely as an Alabama family reunion bride, and the laser looks like a colostomy bag. But for all the kvetching I have read, there seems to be a lack of objective observations among them. "It feels cheap" has not been paired with "my department broke X number" as an example. And I have to admit to possibly liking the cylinder release. It leaves more speedloader room and works fine with the Ohio/Taylor method.
Has anyone spent some time with one or preferably a bunch? I'd be curious to see a thread discussing these things in more neutral terms. Possibly because cheap ugly guns seem to be my thing but mostly because I have a hunch that the bulk of complaints are not founded in any real, measurable metric.
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Originally Posted by SCCY Marshal
