Bawanna's PM45 Preflight Report

[cgo99]

What about now? ............

[Bawanna]

What about now? ............

Patience, patience. I was just fondling Tiny prior to heading out and noticed that my thumb almost automatically hits on the slide stop lever which of course is a root cause of may problems we hear about here. I'm throwin in a good knife and some bandaids. It if gets in the way I'll just cut if off.
Fingers crossed, I'm out of here.
I'm feeling just a bit of pressure here, hope I don't let you fella's down.

[Armybrat]

What, no pictures yet?

[jlottmc]

He should be out playing with it now. We want to know how'd it go? HURRY UP already, don't keep this impatient bunch in suspense.

[jfrey]

He should have taken a laptop so he could post from the range. Why didn't he think and throw one in the range bag?????? Shouldn't be long now - hopefully.

[wyntrout]

Well, about now he ought to at least be there. I hope he's all smiles and grinning a lot... so much it hurts his mouth or face.

I got my generator out and am draining gas through a Mr. Filter... the BIG one, unfortunately the flow from the tank is slow. But I should be able to get all of the water and crud out of the gas tank, clean it a bit, and fill it up a bit. The oil's draining, too, and I still have to check the valves, adjust, and then put all new seals, gaskets, filters and fluids in. I hope this puppy works when I get through. I like being able to run my central air when the power's out, but not for long as gas approaches $3 a gallon and it uses about 2 gallons an hour under load!
Back to work. Later guys and gals.
Wynn

[jlottmc]

Wynn for 15k, you should be able to run your neighbors a/c too. I have a pair of 140 ton chillers here at work I could run one of when the lights are out on 15K. Bawanna should be back by now, maybe something came loose or he's having to wheel himself home due to a sale of that van for more ammo.

[wyntrout]

My largest outlet is only 50 amp @240v, so I can only run 12Kw to my circuit box. My 3 1/2 ton heat pump needs most of that. Newer generators have 62.5 amp outlets and a few kw more output. I have UPSs on everything but the refrigerators and freezers in the house... lots of UPSs... big ones for the TV and stereo and computer. Gen. power is not very well-regulated.
Trying to adjust valves... need new plugs... one side cruddy. Wally World time!
This will keep me busy until Bawanna gets his report out.
Wynn

[jlottmc]

I used to have to do ours when I was in the Corps. Our electricians were LAZY.

[Bawanna]

I'm not sure where to even begin here but words like awesome, outstanding, magnificent all come to mind. I'm on information overload and I'm sure I'll never remember everything in one post so for you who figured I'd not have anything to talk about now that Tiny is home, you were wrong, we have even more. Just the facts................
I arrived with much trepidation. This little thing is gonna tear my hand off. Wrong. I figured next jamb o matic, wrong. Figured guide rod will come apart and be lost, wrong.
Between myself and my son we put just under 350 rounds, nearly flawless thru Tiny. I at first thought we'll just go easy but we had so much fun that we just kept going. 200 rounds Blazer 230 gr aluminum, 125 or so of my reloads which functioned perfectly and 30 or so Gold Dots. As amazing as the accuracy was with the Blazer and the reloads everything tightend up when I switched to Gold Dots! AND this was end of the session, the last 30 rounds or so of the day. No cleaning, no wipe down! I thought the Gold Dots would be the hand breakers but not so. No more recoil than the Blazer.
The SEG couldn't be bigger.
I did (I know your thinking here comes the bad part, wrong) I did have a couple slide locks, "MY THUMB". My son had none. I did have a few mag drops on the last round???? Not for sure there, my son had none. I had no fail to feed or extract. I chambered from slide lock, I sling shoted. I started very careful not wanting to experience anything bad, I ended with caution out the window, let er buck, shoot it like I rented it.
I got lots of pictures, my son is trying to download them, some sequence shots recoil, etc.
BIG NEWS for Wynn. I shot 6 different Wilson 47D mags in Tiny, they functioned flawlessly and with only 1 count em 1 time, they locked open on empty every time. I was hopping around with joy, received many strange looks. No crowd, it was all good.
Amazing groups, still gotta get used to the trigger a bit but if I don't improve one tiny little bit I'm good to go right now. I even picked up a ankle holster at the range just so I got something to carry it with for now.
Apparently all the curses and tribulations that have led to this didn't work, it's a keeper without question. I checked the guiderod about every 10 shots to make sure it wasn't getting loose. All good.
The magna port K40 is still a little fire breather but better, my son noticed it more than me. It still bucks without doubt and Tiny is more pleasant to shoot by far, more push than buck which didn't surprise me.
No wounds, hands still fine. I couldn't be happier!!!!! I'm sure this is just a hodge podge but I know many of you are waiting on word. I'll follow up with some pics and more info soon.
Even my glock grip mods were a complete success, feels awesome, weird trigger, reverse kahr phsycology.
I'm changing my name from Bawanna to Happy, oh, we already have a Happy around here.

ok bye

[kahrseye]

I'm not sure where to even begin here but words like awesome, outstanding, magnificent all come to mind. I'm on information overload and I'm sure I'll never remember everything in one post so for you who figured I'd not have anything to talk about now that Tiny is home, you were wrong, we have even more. Just the facts................
I arrived with much trepidation. This little thing is gonna tear my hand off. Wrong. I figured next jamb o matic, wrong. Figured guide rod will come apart and be lost, wrong.
Between myself and my son we put just under 350 rounds, nearly flawless thru Tiny. I at first thought we'll just go easy but we had so much fun that we just kept going. 200 rounds Blazer 230 gr aluminum, 125 or so of my reloads which functioned perfectly and 30 or so Gold Dots. As amazing as the accuracy was with the Blazer and the reloads everything tightend up when I switched to Gold Dots! AND this was end of the session, the last 30 rounds or so of the day. No cleaning, no wipe down! I thought the Gold Dots would be the hand breakers but not so. No more recoil than the Blazer.
The SEG couldn't be bigger.
I did (I know your thinking here comes the bad part, wrong) I did have a couple slide locks, "MY THUMB". My son had none. I did have a few mag drops on the last round???? Not for sure there, my son had none. I had no fail to feed or extract. I chambered from slide lock, I sling shoted. I started very careful not wanting to experience anything bad, I ended with caution out the window, let er buck, shoot it like I rented it.
I got lots of pictures, my son is trying to download them, some sequence shots recoil, etc.
BIG NEWS for Wynn. I shot 6 different Wilson 47D mags in Tiny, they functioned flawlessly and with only 1 count em 1 time, they locked open on empty every time. I was hopping around with joy, received many strange looks. No crowd, it was all good.
Amazing groups, still gotta get used to the trigger a bit but if I don't improve one tiny little bit I'm good to go right now. I even picked up a ankle holster at the range just so I got something to carry it with for now.
Apparently all the curses and tribulations that have led to this didn't work, it's a keeper without question. I checked the guiderod about every 10 shots to make sure it wasn't getting loose. All good.
The magna port K40 is still a little fire breather but better, my son noticed it more than me. It still bucks without doubt and Tiny is more pleasant to shoot by far, more push than buck which didn't surprise me.
No wounds, hands still fine. I couldn't be happier!!!!! I'm sure this is just a hodge podge but I know many of you are waiting on word. I'll follow up with some pics and more info soon.
Even my glock grip mods were a complete success, feels awesome, weird trigger, reverse kahr phsycology.
I'm changing my name from Bawanna to Happy, oh, we already have a Happy around here.

ok bye

That's great! I knew you'd love that PM45. Recoil very managable, VERY ACCURATE, and just a pleasant experience in your hand. Can't wait to see pics.....Wonderful Report. I'm Happy for you.

[jocko]

I'm elated for you my friend.. honest..

[Michael W.]

Hot dang, I'm so glad for you! I certainly can identify with that euphoria
after the first range session with mine. Starts with "wow, I'm not having any of
those problems I read about.." slowly turning into...."holy frap what a NICE little
gun!"

Also, very glad to hear about the 47D's. I've been scouring the web
to see if anyone was able to use the Wilson 8 rd mags on the PM45.
In fact, I've been holding off buying a higher cap reload for that very reason.
I think that's going to be the way to go for a spare.

Looking forward to the pics...

Michael-

[swampman]

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congratulations,bawanna.Im glad everything worked like it was supposed to.

[gb6491]

Congrats on Tiny Bawanna, sure sounds like a keeper
Looking forward to seeing the photos.
Regards,
Greg