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Micropterus · October 6, 2011, 03:23 PM

I went to a LGS today that has a range. The looking at their wares and saw a Magnum Research Baby Eagle .45 ACP in their rental counter. I wanted to check it out since this gun is on my kinda-want list.

My question is about the slide mounted safety. It's my understand that this works essentially the same as the slide mounted safety on a Beretta 92FS. When the safety is activated, it decocks the hammer and disconnects the trigger. Is this correct?

On the example I handled, when I pushed the safety down, it did drop the hammer. But the trigger disconnect only worked occassionally. Even with the safety down, I was able to pull the trigger a couple of times at which point it went into double action mode and fully activated the hammer - just as if I was firing double action with the safety off. I looked under the hammer and didn't see that ther firing pin had rotated. Not sure if that happens on the Baby Eagle.

At any rate, I advised the man at the counter that the safety appeared to be malfunctioning. He looked at it, replicated the problem several times, shrugged, and stuck it back in the rental counter.

So, does anyone have a Baby Eagle? Is this the way the safety works on that pistol? Or does the one I handled sound defective? It looked like it had a very high round count through it.

October 6, 2011, 03:23 PM	#1
Micropterus Senior Member Join Date: August 29, 2009 Location: Newport News, Virginia Posts: 306	Magnum Research Baby Eagle .45 ACP question I went to a LGS today that has a range. The looking at their wares and saw a Magnum Research Baby Eagle .45 ACP in their rental counter. I wanted to check it out since this gun is on my kinda-want list. My question is about the slide mounted safety. It's my understand that this works essentially the same as the slide mounted safety on a Beretta 92FS. When the safety is activated, it decocks the hammer and disconnects the trigger. Is this correct? On the example I handled, when I pushed the safety down, it did drop the hammer. But the trigger disconnect only worked occassionally. Even with the safety down, I was able to pull the trigger a couple of times at which point it went into double action mode and fully activated the hammer - just as if I was firing double action with the safety off. I looked under the hammer and didn't see that ther firing pin had rotated. Not sure if that happens on the Baby Eagle. At any rate, I advised the man at the counter that the safety appeared to be malfunctioning. He looked at it, replicated the problem several times, shrugged, and stuck it back in the rental counter. So, does anyone have a Baby Eagle? Is this the way the safety works on that pistol? Or does the one I handled sound defective? It looked like it had a very high round count through it.