I had a chance to get my new (to me) Solo out to the range today.
I really liked the way the little sucker shot and was really surprised at how accurate it was. The closest targets at my range are 15 yards and it was printing 4" groups with the Remington Golden Sabers. I didn't expect that at all from that tiny sub 3" barrel. Lot of fun to shoot.
I put 30 125 grain Golden Sabers through it and all except for the last one shot fine. On the last round the slide locked back so the round could not chamber (yup had the slide release under the spring ). Not sure what that was about.
I had bought some Armscore 125 grain FMJ after seeing Hickok45's Solo review. He shot those without any problems and said they "felt hot". Picked up 100 rounds of those and I'm here to tell you that stuff is junk. I had several that would not fire because the primers are so hard the little Solo can barely dent them. Also many failures to eject. My Springfield EMP also had its very first misfires today with two Armscore's that did not detonate because of the hard primers. The springfield had previously never had a malfunction of any kind out of several hundred rounds of various type.
So after I gave up on the Armscore garbage I broke out some Winchester white box 115gr FMJ, and was VERY surprised that those shot fine! The last one of the day (out of about 80) failed to eject. Not bad considering I didn't even expect them to function in the Solo.
So I was pretty happy with the little gun. That is until I got home and broke it down to clean it. It seems my pistol has an issue with the barrel locking lugs. They are bending and also tearing up the slide, seems like they don't mate up right.
I'm going to give Kimber a call tomorrow. I'm the second owner of this pistol so Not sure if they will help me out.. guess I'll find out.
Here's a picture of Solo with his cousin Springfield
I really liked the way the little sucker shot and was really surprised at how accurate it was. The closest targets at my range are 15 yards and it was printing 4" groups with the Remington Golden Sabers. I didn't expect that at all from that tiny sub 3" barrel. Lot of fun to shoot.
I put 30 125 grain Golden Sabers through it and all except for the last one shot fine. On the last round the slide locked back so the round could not chamber (yup had the slide release under the spring ). Not sure what that was about.
I had bought some Armscore 125 grain FMJ after seeing Hickok45's Solo review. He shot those without any problems and said they "felt hot". Picked up 100 rounds of those and I'm here to tell you that stuff is junk. I had several that would not fire because the primers are so hard the little Solo can barely dent them. Also many failures to eject. My Springfield EMP also had its very first misfires today with two Armscore's that did not detonate because of the hard primers. The springfield had previously never had a malfunction of any kind out of several hundred rounds of various type.
So after I gave up on the Armscore garbage I broke out some Winchester white box 115gr FMJ, and was VERY surprised that those shot fine! The last one of the day (out of about 80) failed to eject. Not bad considering I didn't even expect them to function in the Solo.
So I was pretty happy with the little gun. That is until I got home and broke it down to clean it. It seems my pistol has an issue with the barrel locking lugs. They are bending and also tearing up the slide, seems like they don't mate up right.
I'm going to give Kimber a call tomorrow. I'm the second owner of this pistol so Not sure if they will help me out.. guess I'll find out.
Here's a picture of Solo with his cousin Springfield
