Posted: 8/22/2008 9:49:15 PM EDT
| Anybody have one or shot one? Thought about picking one up for the range price is right. |
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I have one. Traded in something I wasn't using for it, since my other carry handgun needed repairs. It's very slim, has acceptable capacity, and if you're accustomed to a 1911 grip angle it will point very naturally. I've only put about 300 rounds through it, but it has had very few failures during the break in period. The only issues I've had with the gun are (a) it has a magazine safety and I hate those, so I removed it (b) the slide stop may be a bit slippery until the gun is broken in, leading the slide to slam home when the empty magazine is removed. The slide stop may be a particular issue with my gun, and not something representative of all the EAA M88s. It has stopped doing it after some break in, and probably had a lot to do with my repeated cycling of the slide before taking it to the range for some breaking in. The gun is reasonably accurate, and has pretty light recoil for a 9mm. It's a little heavy compared to more expensive guns that make extensive use of polymer or aluminum (the gun is almost entirely steel, right down to the magazine base that curves out underneath your pinky finger) but feels good in the hand, and conceals well IWB (or otherwise, I use thunderwear). Easily worth the $220 Bud's Gun shop is offering it for online. EDIT: This is not really an ideal range gun, or a target shooter. But it's still fun. |
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I don't have one, but they are interesting to me. If they're anything like the TT-33 they're based on, they're VERY slim, have pretty good triggers, reasonably accurate, and are unbreakable/unstoppable. The slide mounted safety is kind of a turn-off for me as is the mag disconnect. |
The slide mounted safety works just like most other slide safeties (viz. EDIT: The slide mounted safety is not a decocker, it is a firing pin block and trigger disconnect. The gun may be carried cocked and locked. I normally carry with one in the chamber with whatever i'm carrying, but prefer to test a gun in normal use unloaded first. |
I'll get a camera that's not my phone from someone and upload some in the next day or two. |
Fixed..............  Lots better gun options out there that won't fall apart on one after a few hundred rds, if not sooner. I say this as an EAA owner too............... 
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Umm, not to be contrarian or anything, but I've put several hundred rounds through mine and it's still going strong. Most other people I've seen that have the same pistol have the same experience. Not to mention that all the other guns out there in its price range are utter crap, or used milsurp that I wouldn't trust in the first place. This thing is a breath of fresh air, comparatively. Also, EAA doesn't make any guns, they just import them. In this case from Zastava in Serbia, more well known as the maker of the Black Arrow. |
Then they're better built than the Tokarev's I used to sell. 
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