A Critical Look at the Star Model BM

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Starr firearms were made at Yonkers, Binghamton, and Morrisania, New York, from 1858 to 1867. The New York City address referred to the Starr Arms Company store and office at 267 Broadway. Starr double-action.44 caliber revolvers, with serial numbers from 1 to about 23,000, were manufactured first, and Starr single-action.44 caliber revolvers. Star Model A Carbine - Shoulder Stock 1920s 7.63mm GI#: 101552342 This is a very scarce Spanish Star Model A carbine pistol, made in the late 1920s, chambered in hard hitting Mauser 7.63mm Broomhandle cartridge and equipped with an extended factory barrel and a shou.Click for more info. A total of 217,682 Star BM pistols were made between 1972 and 1992. BM serial numbers ranged from 1,226,501 to somewhere around 1,900,000. The pistols were made without mechanical variation throughout that period, but there may be a lot of different cosmetic variations depending on agency issue and commercial sales.

Produced by Star Bonifacio Escheverria in Spain, this single-stack 9x19mm single-action pistol remains a fairly popular handgun for those seeking inexpensive firearms that are not cheap. If a bit heavy by today's standards, it is compact and lends itself nicely to concealed carry.

These pistols are no longer manufactured and the company that produced them no longer exists in the same form. It has merged with another Spanish arms maker and it is important to note that no new parts are being produced. Parts replacement will only get more difficult with each passing year. Still, at about $150 to $175 for a like-new pistol, they are purchased pretty quickly when a newly found batch is imported into the US. Us cutter mh 871 mk2 drivers for mac.

The Star Model BM is an all-steel single-action semiautomatic that resembles the 1911 pattern pistol. Some features are shared but it is not a clone. Parts do not interchange and internal systems are quite different. The Model BM shown has had the hammer spur bobbed to eliminate hammer bite and the magazine disconnect has been removed. This is very easily done on the Model BM.

There is nothing fancy about this gun, but it is solidly built and a reasonably good performer, particularly for the price. They come throated from the factory and feed many JHP's well, but not necessarily all.

Specifications:

Weight: 2.14 lbs.

Length (from muzzle to rear of butt): 7.25'

Height (from bottom of grip to top of rear sight): 5.063'

Slide Width: 0.84'

Frame Width: 0.70'

Width across grips: 1.23'

Frame: steel

Grips: checkered brown plastic (The plastic is not 'stiff' but somewhat malleable.)

Action: single-action w/locked breech

Barrel: 3.77' long w/1:10 twist, one locking lug and swinging link

Finish: matte blue (I've heard that some were available in an electroless nickle, but have not seen one.)

Full-length guide rod: yes, w/captive recoil spring

Removable barrel bushing: yes

Magazine disconnect: yes

Sights: fixed (notched rear blade and serrated front ramp, plain black on black)

Extractor: external, pivoting

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Magazine Capacity: 8

Beveled magazine well: yes

Trigger: serrated, pivoting

The rear sight on the Model BM is nothing fancy, but is quite usable as it comes. I do find the rear notch just a small bit shallow for my tastes, but not enough to alter it. Surprisingly, these sights are not at all 'slow' to be picked up at speed.

Here is the slide assembly. There are definite similarities to the 1911 visible in the external features of the gun and with the removable bushing as well as the swinging link, but there are also considerable differences between the two designs. The link is in the proper position for reassembly on the Star but would not be on a true 1911.

The Model BM comes throated from the factory and the barrel and feed ramp design is the same as on the 1911. On the right we see that while case support is adequate on the Model BM, the 9mm case is by no means fully supported. While I do not believe that the Model BM is up to a constant diet of hot handloads or +P ammunition, I have fired both in this pistol without any undue case swelling or signs of a pending case failure due to lack of chamber support.

Like the 1911, the Star using a Browning style lock up as is evidenced by the swinging link and locking lug on the barrel along with the removable barrel bushing. The Star BM uses a FLGR with a captive recoil spring. While less like to lose a spring under field conditions, it is also more difficult to change recoil springs with this arrangement.

Externally the Star mimics the 1911. There are similarities, but there are also significant differences. For one there is no grip safety. For another, the thumb safety on the Star does not block the sear as on the 1911; it cams the hammer up and rearward so that it is not in engagement. With the thumb safety engaged on a 1911, if the trigger is pressed, resistance can be felt. With the Star, the trigger moves through its full arc with the thumb safety engaged; it simply cannot release the hammer, as the sear is no longer in contact with it! With the Star hammer at full-cock one can see Debian perl dbd mysql install linux. the hammer move slightly rearward when the thumb safety is engaged. The thumb safety and slide release lever on the 1911 are both under spring tension via the plunger retained by the external plunger tube. This is not true on the Star. There is a spring-loaded plunger within the slide stop lever itself and another beneath the thumb safety. (When the BM is being detail-stripped the plunger beneath the safety is often lost, as it willleave the frame when the safety is moved upward enough to free it.)

Here you can see the self-contained plunger on the slide stop lever (left) and the thumb safety in 'on' position on the Model BM. Note that the grip extends nearly to the bottom of the slide and that there is no plunger tube as on the 1911.

The Star uses a pivoting external claw extractor ala Browning Hi Power and other semiautomatics including some of the newer 1911 type pistols, but the disconnector on the Star is in the a slide rail groove of the frame, positioned similarly to the old High Standard .22 pistols. The trigger pivots on the Star as opposed to the straight rearward movement of the 1911. Where the 1911 series of handguns use a retaining plate to contain the firing pin and spring, the Model BM has a vertical steel pin beneath the rear sight. This is problematical when wanting to remove the pin for cleaning.

Disassembly is more like the Browning Hi Power than the 1911. The slide is locked back by engaging a notch with the thumb safety. With the magazine removed, the slide assembly can be slid off the front of the frame. The recoil spring and guide rod are removed toward the rear. When done, the bushing can be turned and removed followed by taking the barrel from the slide.

The Star Model BM has a magazine well that is beveled from the factory and its 8-shot magazines have a rounded follower. Note the flat at the forward end of the follower that engages the slide release lever. I have seen very few problems with either premature slide lock or the slide failing to lock open after the last shot with the Star pistols.

There can be little doubt that the Model BM as well as its predecessor, the Model B, have been strongly influenced by Mr. Browning's 1911 design, but there are enough differences that while they may be 'related', I do not consider them clones.

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