guardian 380 range report

[howitzer]

Got a chance to wring out my used 380. Using Aguila 95gr brass, Winclean 95gr brass, UMC 95gr brass and some Tulammo steel. The bras shot fine. A few feed chokes with the Tul. All in all a nice little pistol. I see hardly any difference in recoil compared to my Taurus TCP or Keltec  3pat. At 7 yards I was low at first with the front sight even with  the rear. If I set the front sight higher it was right on. For me when bringing the gun up to my eyes the front sight is naturally higher. So when I started to crank them out without adjusting it was on target. I forgot to save the target and taped my next one over it shooting my XD 45. To me this is not shoot a lot at the range. With the weak extractor, it does not really grip the rim firmly, I can see if the chamber gets dirty the case might stick  and the extractor may not pull it out. I think this is by design. As there is no ejector and ejection relies on the next round in the mag coming up to knock out the empty you would not want a goriila grip on the case rim.

[howitzer]

I forgot to mention that my only reservation about this pistol is ejecting a live dud round. With my gun it was next to impossible to eject with the mag in place. The next round in the mag would knock it off the extractor half way out of the chamber. Not so good in a shtf situation.