[soundguy]

i agree with what's been said.

I've had a couple and worked on a few more for friends. ( yeah.. we know they are/were cheap guns ).

as with other cheap guns I've palyed with ( lorcin, haskel, bryco ).. they all benefitted from takedown and polish and fiel work on machiend parts, slides, feed ranp, springs.. etc. good cleanining and ball ammo.. no light loads. still get ftf and stovepipes or ejcection/feed jambs way to often to use it for more than a bench plinker on a rainy day.

I had one in the glovebox for years as a snake gun using cci shotshells with i just resigned myself to feed manually, single shot..

 

[soundguy]

I have an old Haskell 45 ACP and it shoots rings around all my friend's Colt 1911's. But it's heavy as hell.

back when fl got a cwp law, I went and got my range test. I showed up with one of those cheap haskel 45's another guy taking the range test with me had a nice custom 1911.. trigger work.. adjustale windage and elev sites.. scroll work all over.. gun must ahve been a few thou$$ back then.. and mine like 150$

range officer inspected his gun.. made some nice comments about it being a piece of art.. yada, yada, yada.. then looked at mine.. and jst said.. 'hmm.. sturdy'

after the range test.. I was givin my certificate and sent home.. the other guy had to stay untill he could get some shots on paper. so far hea had almost non staying on a silo target all day.

IMHO.. it likely was more of the operator than the tool error.. but still.. I got a good laugh that my pawn shop 150$ gun with basic ramp milled sites was doing much better than the expensive yuppie model..

 

[soundguy]

My observations exactly- amazing how accurate the Haskell is, it has so much meat in the slide and frame, it's inherently sturdy.

yup.. it's 'heft' and weight actually let you keep / put more shots on target with lower time between fireings, when doing rapid fire test.. the gun simply weighs a ton and don't recoil much.. thus less correction for followup shots needed..

 

[soundguy]

i have one of these bought many years ago also. I small part was lost while field cleaning once. Is there anywhere I can send the gun to have the part replaced?

IF you can get the part.. you can likely install them.

I've repaired many jennings and raven and similar guns on my bench with common tools... of course i've HAD to repair them or I couldn't use them after a few shots..

usually firing pin, springs and some hand fitting...

 

[soundguy]

yeh I take the Haskell out shooting with my kid, he calls it "the brick" because it's as heavy as a brick

half the people I know.. friends and whatnot, that have shot my haskel.. call it a brick.

small world..

I usually take it as a spare gun at the range if one of out 'pack' didn't bring something to shoot.

I just let them 'feed' it and they can shoot it all they want.

it doesn't even have any finish worn off and the plastic grips are fine.

it will digest any 45acp ammo.. it's a heck of a cheap gun..
and as I like to say about my COP 357 4 shot.. when the ammo runs out.. it's either a hand weapon or you can throw it at the badguy and seriously hurt him if you get a face shot..

 

[soundguy]

yep.. that's it.

I actually like the all metal mag better than the hi point mag with the clunky plastic bit at the bottom.

 

[soundguy]

i have 2 oem stl mags as well. Heck.. the ramp sights on mine are fine for 25yds. I don't suspect I'll do much more with it vs 25yds..