Trip to Spain? Now with range report/

[glenncal1]

Local gun board has this little Llama .32 for sale for cheap. A mini 1911 I couldn't resist. I like .32's. The gun is much better in person than in the photos. I have to get a magazine for it, but they are available if not cheap.


Well my magazine arrived and I was able to get the .32 to the range today. A very fun shooter.
I didn't do any real accuracy testing, Just put 50 rounds downrange offhand at 10 yards. Gun
ran 100% using some Fiocci hardball. Llama made a fine pistol in the 1960's.

P.S. there is a pawnshop on GB that has a bunch of what they called .380 mags for about
$52 after tax and shipping.

 

[LVSteve]

Blowback or locked breech? I have a Star SI I need to take to the range. It is a locked breech action which should put the recoil down to .22 levels.

 

[CajunBass]

When I was a youngster, I about wore out a ratty, dog eared copy of the Shooters Bible that had turned up at the house from somewhere or other. One of the guns I drooled over was that Llama semi-auto, but I always dreamed of it as a 22 LR. They were "inexpensive" shall we say, I could at least imagine buying one some day.

I eventually did get one, many years later. I got no idea what happened to it or if I even shot it.

Congratulations on yours. Enjoy it.

 

[alwslate]

I have one of the old Llama .22 LR pistols that is marked "Llama Especial". I bought it used from a gun shop back in 1973. I remember when they were sold in .22LR, .32 ACP and .380 ACP with walnut grips and the barrel rib was solid. I believe the .32s were blowback and .380s were locked breech as I recall. Later models with the plastic "thumb rest" and vent rib and a finish that looked like black paint instead of blue were a big step down in quality. I still have my old .22 and it simply refuses to jam with HS 40 gr RN ammo.

 

[LVSteve]

I have one of the old Llama .22 LR pistols that is marked "Llama Especial". I bought it used from a gun shop back in 1973. I remember when they were sold in .22LR, .32 ACP and .380 ACP with walnut grips and the barrel rib was solid. I believe the .32s were blowback and .380s were locked breech as I recall. Later models with the plastic "thumb rest" and vent rib and a finish that looked like black paint instead of blue were a big step down in quality. I still have my old .22 and it simply refuses to jam with HS 40 gr RN ammo.

Llama 380s came in locked breech and blowback varieties depending on model/series. Confusing as heck. For a brief time they even made a blowback in 9x19. That turned out to be a bad plan.

llamapage

 

[stansdds]

Back in the days of Miami Vice, I thought the Llama pistols, with their ventilated ribs, looked so cool that they belonged on that show. My local gun shop did not carry the Llama line. They carried a lot of other manufacturers including Taurus, but they did not and would not sell the Llama line of firearms.

 

[Golddollar]

Just couldn't resist.

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[oneeyedpete]

I always wanted one of those mini 1911s, but everyone I saw was either too beaten up or the seller wanted too much money. I finally did find it's big brother with a satin hard chrome finish.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Sometime in the 1980s I acquired a Colt Pocket Hammerless in .380. Its magazine spring was so worn out that it was a single shot! I took it to the big gun show that used to be at Market Hall in Dallas. Replacement magazines were all $50.00 or more for originals and I was really not interested in replicas. I ran into a guy back by the wall selling various used guns and he had a Llama .380 government model (okay, mini-1911) that was in astonishingly great shape. We were fixing to simply swap when he stopped me, said that he noticed something broken (I have no recollection of what that was) and said he couldn't do the trade. I was disappointed.

Then he offered me a similar pistol, a Star Model S, same swap, so I did the deal and still have this remarkably accurate pistol.

Some years later I acquired a full sized Llama 1911. It was awful.

 

[glenncal1]

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[gunbarrel]

Just couldn't resist.

Awesome! Thanks for the memories.

gunbarrel
LHS Class of '72

 

[walter o]

Not to steal the thread but BROWNING now makes a 7/8 size 1911 in .380
or 22 cal. they are a little pricey but top quality with Great customer service. I have one that i can change from. 380 to 22 cal by changing barrel and slide stop .A fun gun to play with.Might be worth a look