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These pistols were only made with stainless slides back in 1990. I paid 700 dollars for these two pistols. One is near new in about 97% condition and the other is probably 90%. The 90 per enter was clearly used. It has a couple of minor scratches on the polished flats of the sides, and has wear through the anodized finish on the frame rails.
These pistols both had a recall on them. The previous owner said that they had both gone back to the factory and had the free recall repairs.
What I shot today was the 90 percent gun. I tested out all ten mags that came with the guns. Four we're like new and the other six had significant finish wear, with one having some rust on the side of the mag body.
As you can see in the pics, the factory mag loaders are there, as well as the original boxes and manuals.
The gun;s groups weren't too tight. When I got home to clean it, I put some copper and lead removing gel solvent in the barrel and let it sit for an hour. The amount of blue and green that came out on the patches was significant. Maybe on my next range trip the groups will be smaller. I got about 3 inches at 40 to 5pm feet off a rest. Same results off hand. And, I was using bottom of the barrel ammo today.
The grips in the picture are Uncle Mike's hard rubber. The original grips were included. So for 700 bucks I got both pistols with original boxes, grips and manuals. And I got 10 OEM 15 round mags, loaders, and the guy drove them up from Klamath Falls to Eugene/Springfield Oregon to deliver them at my FFL.
As nobody makes leather holsters for these anymore, I will have to custom make a couple of holsters for these.
These pistols are really hand filling, like my Beretta's. These trigger reset is really long on these P85's as well. You almost have to let your finger off the trigger for it to reach the reset point. The return spring is strong. If one just relaxes their finger between pulls, and lets the trigger move forward while keeping contact with the face of the trigger, you can feel where the reset point is and pull again. Speed of follow up shots wasn't bad once I got used to it.
These pistols both had a recall on them. The previous owner said that they had both gone back to the factory and had the free recall repairs.
What I shot today was the 90 percent gun. I tested out all ten mags that came with the guns. Four we're like new and the other six had significant finish wear, with one having some rust on the side of the mag body.
As you can see in the pics, the factory mag loaders are there, as well as the original boxes and manuals.
The gun;s groups weren't too tight. When I got home to clean it, I put some copper and lead removing gel solvent in the barrel and let it sit for an hour. The amount of blue and green that came out on the patches was significant. Maybe on my next range trip the groups will be smaller. I got about 3 inches at 40 to 5pm feet off a rest. Same results off hand. And, I was using bottom of the barrel ammo today.
The grips in the picture are Uncle Mike's hard rubber. The original grips were included. So for 700 bucks I got both pistols with original boxes, grips and manuals. And I got 10 OEM 15 round mags, loaders, and the guy drove them up from Klamath Falls to Eugene/Springfield Oregon to deliver them at my FFL.
As nobody makes leather holsters for these anymore, I will have to custom make a couple of holsters for these.
These pistols are really hand filling, like my Beretta's. These trigger reset is really long on these P85's as well. You almost have to let your finger off the trigger for it to reach the reset point. The return spring is strong. If one just relaxes their finger between pulls, and lets the trigger move forward while keeping contact with the face of the trigger, you can feel where the reset point is and pull again. Speed of follow up shots wasn't bad once I got used to it.
