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10/10/2005: "Aluminum Slides?"

The Model F Olympics continue to baffle me with their strangeness. Now I hear (reliably) that the slide is made of aluminum! This certainly explains how they got the gun to operate; the reduced mass would make it much easier for the low-powered cartridge to function. But I have never, ever before heard of any gun having an aluminum slide, bolt or anything. So, weird and clever Star engineers.

I suspect these are not that sturdy, even just fed the anemic .22 Short. Any Olympic pistol may be more of a collector than a shooter, anyway.

More collectable Stars coming up shortly.