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Colt Mustang

RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Anyone own one? Pro's? Cons? Compared to a PPK? Bidding on one and was just wondering.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am waiting for my FFL buddy to let me know they are shipping them.

    Does any one have an opinion (snicker, snicker, snicker) on the Colt Mustang .380 for a primary CCW? Is there a BETTER, More reliable design I should look at? Remember, it will NOT be pampered, it will be in the pocket of jeans, shorts, sweated on, soaked by cow pee and then hosed off with CLP for the night.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just wondering what you folks thought about a couple of mustangs. One has sold and the other is on the auction side. Was this a good buy for this GunBroker.com Item 133117107, and what do you think about this one GunBroker.com Item 134221799.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I have a Pony. The double-action version. I like the Mustang better, but Dept. regs will not allow a single action. You will be pleased.

    Compared to a Walther PPK, the Colt is lighter, thinner, smaller overall, and has less felt recoil. The Colt has a locked breech, while the PPK is a straight blowback, and that seems to make a difference.

    The only glitch with the Mustang and the Pony is on field stripping. On some examples, not all, the barrel will not just come out of the slide, as it will with the larger versions of this same gun. If yours will not come out, try removing the extractor first. That usually gives enough clearance to remove the barrel. You need to clean the extractor and its recess anyway.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have the Mustang Series 80 in stainless. I like it best of all of my pocket guns. I don't like the Kel-Tec's, and the .40's and 9's are too big. Judge Colt used to push the Kel-Tec's because they were lighter, but the Mustang and the Beretta Tomcat never had weight problem for me. I like the very small .380. It gives more punch than a .32 without any more size. If you get it, you'll love it. Do get a factory manual for it if it doesn't come with one. Theres a small lever that falls forward sometimes during cleaning and it's a mess to get back in position. If you don't get one, let me know and I'll copy mine and send it to you.

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  • adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    I have a Mustang .380, the one with the short barrel that looks like a 1/2 scale 1911. It feeds virtually any grade of ammo without jamming and is reasonably accurate.

    Recently I found two major defects with the gun:
    1. The spring that provides tension for the magazine somehow became all bent up so that the mag would jam in the gun
    2. More seriously, the frame developed a crack along the left side.

    The gun has not seen much shooting and as far as I know has never been shot with overly hot ammo. I sent it back to Colt about 30 days ago and am waiting to see if they are going to fix it under their lifetime repair warranty.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    They will fix it, but they will take their sweet time.

    You can get repairs done more quickly if you tell them you are a police officer and that this is a carry gun.

    I have sent 3 or 4 guns back to Colt and have gotten them back in under 3 weeks. One of them was in worse shape than before I sent it in and had to go back a second time.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a Mustang .380 clone, I think it was called an FI, and I loved it. Only traded it to get something else, and I've missed it ever since. This was easy to strip and clean, just like a big one, and felt and shot great. Only weakness was the mag feed lips, if you get an older one that doesn't hold them tight enough you can get a round popping out when it shouldn't. But mags are replaceable. They're nice thin, well shaped singe action guns, elegant and an easy and safe pocket gun, especially if you carry chamber empty and rack the slide when you draw. It just left a very nice impression on me, and I imagine the Mustang's even better than the clone I had.

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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks everyone. I set my limit but the other guy wanted the mustang more than me. Win some, lose some.
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