BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 This is my "Toys" At left a IMBEL(same factory makes the Springfield) .40S&W and at right a IMBEL .380 ACP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Nice guns, Luis. Does the porting on the .380 help? Merlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 Nice guns, Luis. Does the porting on the .380 help? Yes, it´s help when i use a hight power amunition, i make a reload with a 85Grains Holow Point jacket, with 7,2 Grains of Duble Base Powder (like a Vita Vuori) and is accelerates at 1500 FPS. The gun don´t moves. Sorry but my english sucks!!!! I use this gun in my work i´m a COP here in Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Mink Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 That .380 makes minor with the ports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucky Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Are you sure you don't mean .38 ACP? Most .380s are a blowback design and I'd doubt you could push it that hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 Yes i´m sure it is a 380ACP, but this amonition its for defense use, i don´t use it at the my practice, i use my .40S&W in IPSC, and my 380ACP it´s for defense only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 "Sorry but my english sucks!!!! " The gentleman from Brazil may or may not think his English is good, but he certainly has fine command over the vernacular!! Thanks for posting your photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 The gentleman from Brazil may or may not think his English is good, but he certainly has fine command over the vernacular!! Thanks for posting your photo! What means VERNACULAR??????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 What means VERNACULAR??????????? " the mode of expression of a group or class" ie: a class of people such as USPSA shooters - ie: you can "talk the talk" OR - hey Luis - we know what you are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 Ok Thanks for increase my Vocabulary!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 23, 2003 Author Share Posted December 23, 2003 Thanks to move my photos and create a new topic for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox34 Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 This is my "Toys"At left a IMBEL(same factory makes the Springfield) . So, this means Springfield handguns are manufactured in Brazil??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNsTeR Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 The frames and slides, or maybe just the forgings, are indeed made in Brazil. The pistols are assembled and completed in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Christiansen Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 So, Brasileiro, the .380 is with a locked breech? If they were available here I'd have to have one, great for "medium bore" events at bowloing pin matches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 So, Brasileiro, the .380 is with a locked breech? Sorry Ned but i don´t understand what it means??????????????? Fox 34 - YES Springfield ir totally MADE IN BRAZIL, only MAGS is MADE IN USA. You can see in new Springfield the sign "FI" near the serial number, this means "Fabrica Itajubá" or " Factory Itajuba" Itajubá is a city in Brazil where the Imbel Industries is located. Bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Brasiliero, What Ned is asking, is, is the .380 like 1911's, with a link on the bottom of the barrel, and locking lugs on the top? Does the barrel move down from the slide as the slide moves back? Or does the barrel stay in place as the slide moves back and forth? A locked-breech pistol (the 1911) can be pushed to much higher limits than a blowback (all the Browning-style pocket pistols) can be. If you are indeed getting 1500 fps out of an 85 grain bullet out of a .380, that is something we all want. Have you run your ammo over a chronograph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 Does the barrel move down from the slide as the slide moves back?Or does the barrel stay in place as the slide moves back and forth? Have you run your ammo over a chronograph? Ok now I undertand the question. I is a Blowback system!! The Barrel stays in place and the slide moves! Yes i use a Cronograph!!! I use this ammo in a Glock G25, and Works, but it don´t have the ports on barrel and the recoil is very big, and loose the sight picture, when i shoot with my Imbel with ports, the sight picture stays in the target. Bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 I tried some 88 gr jhp's in .38 Super for bowling pins (the 9-pin event) and getting them to 1400 in a Super case was an adventure. I hate to think what the pressure is in a .380 case at that velocity or higher. Some years ago, Dean Grennel had bought a Browning 1909, in 9mm Browning Long. He found that if he machined a sleeve, he could make the chamber shorter and use .380 ammo. (He had no access to 9mm Browning Long in the early 1970's.) but the .380 would not cycle the pistol. He finally loaded it up hot enought o work the action. Years later he had a chance for a powder maker to pressure-test his .380/9mm Browning Long loads. As I recall, they told him his pressures were over standard 9mm Parabellum levels. Yours have to be off the scale! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 A long while ago I got an e-mail from a guy somewhere in South America (I forgot where, but maybe Brazil).. turns out that to get around some of the gun laws there they'd get Glock 25's (the little .380 you can't get here), weld back up the locking lugs on the barrel and load 'em up to 9mm-sorts of loads. He said that worked pretty well and didn't break stuff much. Where's Clark when we need him? I'm sure he knows the limits of the .380 case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 HAHAHA- someone else follows the mad adventures of Clark? (very entertaining stuff!) Luis: Does Imbel make a copy of the STI/SV 2011? Thanks for posting pictures of your guns! Regards, Carlos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrazilianShooter Posted January 6, 2004 Author Share Posted January 6, 2004 Luis: Does Imbel make a copy of the STI/SV 2011? Carlos, no they don´t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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