Star Super B

[kablair]

Just picked up this Star Super B. Yes, it is 9mm parabellum. Was yours like this, Jim ?

-Kab

[browningautorifle]

Was yours like this

I don't remember having a lanyard ring but those go stray, mine was all polished blue too. Probably done after the fact. My grip scales were walnut too but that's the gun... Good memory Kab.

Now, that one is marked "Super", are you sure it won't chamber 38 Super?

[Low & Slow]

Nice pistol. This one's in 9 X 19mm too, but I believe that they were chambered in 9mm Largo as well. No lanyard loop, must have been made for civilians. Had to open up the rear notch, as I had issues with seeing daylight between it's edges and the front sight. Yep. The age thing again.

[browningautorifle]

No lanyard loop,

That must have been the one I had then.

[kablair]

Jim, not such a good memory, always try to look (finally) at your posts. According to my info the markings are definately 9P. Here 9mm is easier to get than .38 special. Rumor has it that certain gov't agencies are buying it up.

- Kab

[Sapper740]

Jim, not such a good memory, always try to look (finally) at your posts. According to my info the markings are definately 9P. Here 9mm is easier to get than .38 special. Rumor has it that certain gov't agencies are buying it up.
so it's unlikely the government has h
- Kab

Less than 1% of the federal government's expenditures on ammunition and firearms is on revolvers and ammunition for them, according to the GAO so it's unlikely the government has any hand in shortages of certain rimmed calibers. Rumors of the Feds instituting backdoor gun control by "buying up all the ammo" has little basis in truth. Of much greater concern is the total number of Federal Government agencies who's employees are armed at all.

[browningautorifle]

According to my info the markings are definitely 9P.

OK, mine was in 38super or 9mm as long as you fed from the mag. I went ahead and got lots of super brass, I guess the Largo must be close too. I didn't have any to try just super in my ammo collection. When I sold it I bet the next guy used nothing but 9mm. That's what it was sold as anyway, 9mm. It shot great and worked perfectly. I remember something about the firing pin was a direct contact, if you had a round chambered and hammer down you had the firing pin against the primer. I had a broken firing pin and had to make one from scratch. I still come across the old broken firing pin here in my parts.

[Daan Kemp]

Star made the B in 9mm and 38 Super. Same everything except for calibre. You get 8 and 9 shot magazines for the Star B.

[Daan Kemp]

The Star B/BS did have a narrow notch in the rear sight. Light filing with a small file quickly solves that.

[Daan Kemp]

Star B/BS were all built for 38 Super and the mags were appropriate for longer cartridges. 9mm were a short fit but worked except were inclined to nose dive. SA Defence Force standard handgun in 9 mm since the middle sixties, still in use.

If the gun had a 38 chamber and you used 9mm, the extractor kept it in contact with the breech face, otherwise it would just have slipped into the chamber.