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Old November 8, 2015, 09:40 PM   #26
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Shrek, I appreciate the info on the mag modifications. I will keep them in mind after I get to shoot it more this week and diagnose issues. Will post more this week after range time.
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Old November 9, 2015, 07:45 PM   #27
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Finally got a chance to run a mag through the minimax and I'm liking where it's going. It was raining but you gotta scratch when it itches. Out of a ten round mag I had 1 round that didn't go fully into battery with 230 ball ammo. 90% is much better than the 33% I started at.

I had a guy suggest polishing the throat. Does anyone think that may help with the feeding issue?
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Old November 9, 2015, 08:11 PM   #28
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Polishing the throat may help and can't hurt unless you don't do it properly (bubba it up) which I doubt you'd do. You seem to know your way around a bench.
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Old November 11, 2015, 06:42 PM   #29
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So I did polish the throat. I only hand polish when I'm doing things like that, never can trust my gumption with a Dremel to polish. I lightly polished with a 1200 grit paper and cleaned everything up. Wouldn't you know, it fed rounds like a champ. Needless to say I'm pretty excited about how far it's come. I'm going to put a few hundred more rounds through it before I would trust it as a carry gun or truck gun and even then it would be hard to let it replace my sig as my current edc.

Thanks for all of the info and assistance with this little girl. I very well may have ended up with a nice little piece for $30 and time.
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Old November 13, 2015, 01:08 AM   #30
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That and a Para Ord hog only 2 I could never make run . Both ran me up a tree and found their way to a Pawn Shop. I wouldn't treat my dealer that bad.

I had a Llama 38 super in late 60's was a good shooting pistol. but later years they were trash.
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Old November 13, 2015, 07:13 PM   #31
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PICS!!! We need our Gun Pic Fix!!

It'd be nice to see how the feed throat turned out as well
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Old November 13, 2015, 10:04 PM   #32
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Couldn't get the best focus on the throat and it's certainly not mirror polished but it's much smoother than the initial. I'm gonna leave the grips, even though the look a little trashy they make it quite nice to fire.



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Old November 13, 2015, 10:05 PM   #33
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Old November 16, 2015, 07:55 PM   #34
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llama 1911's are coming back out
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Old November 16, 2015, 08:08 PM   #35
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If you can get the Llama to feed ANYTHING at all, I suggest you run about 500 rounds of whatever it it'll shoot through it. From round 1 to the 500th round, refrain from cleaning or disassembling it. The "grunge" that builds up will act like a jeweler's rouge on the articulating parts, and remove a great deal of the roughness that often contributes to misfunctions.
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