colt mustasng pocketlite 380

[jocko]

If u hav ethenew American Rifleman, look at the Colt Mustang that they have reintroduced.

Looks to me ike they have about the same little springhy on the left side that works the slide lock lever, as on the kahrs.... Humm: monkey see, monkey do...

[Tinman507]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kend0089/vgfinal/blurb_MonkeySeeMonkeyDo_20080812.jpg

[Barth]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/kend0089/vgfinal/blurb_MonkeySeeMonkeyDo_20080812.jpg

Speaking of that.
This Monkey just watched a Youtube video.
Then changed his Glock connector and spring with a punch and a butter-knife in about 3 minutes.
Went strait to the range and squeezed off 100 357 Sig rounds - Woo Hoo!

I can't believe I actually paid folks to work on this gun - LOL!
https://www.t-mobilepictures.com/myalbum/photos/photo30/e3/f3/9e44b955368f__1337722944000.jpeg

[Barth]

On a related note I think Colt may have sold the design of the Mustang to Sig
for their P238?
And then after seeing it's success decided to rel-release a Mustang II?
Does anybody remember the Ford Mustang II?
Does anybody want to?

At any rate the Sig P938 9mm continues to look inviting to me.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQOCunyCUBV0IzPaqA3KPriDqI-lL5-IA1eEBmt93NoRpbm3Lu

[getsome]

Both the Mustang and the Sig 9 are sweet pistols but I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with either one of those co-cked and ready to rock in my pocket next to the boys...Why go old school technology with a pocket rocket when "Baby you can drive my Kahr" and enjoy the finest modern design without a safety to mess with...

[houdini]

I have the early gun thats my summer time carry, what a fine gun.

[Barth]

Both the Mustang and the Sig 9 are sweet pistols but I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with either one of those co-cked and ready to rock in my pocket next to the boys...Why go old school technology with a pocket rocket when "Baby you can drive my Kahr" and enjoy the finest modern design without a safety to mess with...

No way in a pocket.
I'm not sure I can deal with cocked and locked carry at all.
It would just be a range toy.
And in that case why not a 5" 1911?

I just like the look and suspect it's a low recoil and accurate little gun.
Every time I start to think I want some micro single stack
I take the MK40 out to the range and prove to myself I already have one.

[jocko]

probably right. I think it is har dto compare a kahr to a singles action "anything". Two different guns IMO.

[kerby9mm]

I have a mk9 & a mk40 and 2 p238's. The spring thing on the p238 only holds the slide stop down and does not act as a slide stop retainer as it does on the Kahrs. IMO the sig is perfectly safe to carry cocked with safety on. You can rack the slide with the safety on for unloading or loading. I would like to see someone try to make the sig fire with the safety on because it blocks the hammer. When you put the safety on the hammer actually goes back a bit further and can't be moved. As far as the springy thing I thing the Kahr design is better because if you remove the mag from the sig tilt the gun to the left and rack the slide the pin will actually fall out.

[jocko]

what keeps the pin in???? Is it in there that loose??? strange...

[kerby9mm]

The pin is held in by the mag follower and recoil spring tension. The pin can only come out when the slide is pulled back to where the takedown notch on the slide lines up with the slide stop.

[chrish]

Yes, Colt sold/allowed the Mustang design to be used by Sig in the P238. There is now a Sig 9mm variant, which I'd consider over either the P238 or Mustang if I were looking at a pocket 1911-ish pistol. In the end, I'd rather have a pocketable Kahr DAO pistol over either of these, but no argument that both are nice pistols. Back just before Colt stopped the Mustang, it was next on my list and WOULD have been my first semi-auto...but then it got dropped and I was on to Smith airweight revolvers that were beginning to hit the scene. Then I discovered Kahr and finally made the leap into semi-autos.

Gotta love the Mustang/P238 though, still a good looking and from all accounts nice shooting little 1911.