weird gun review
went to the fun store to buy ammo. walking past the used guns counter and something unusual caught my eye.
on the other side it said "HONOR GUARD" in big letters. I said "whut the heyell?"
"that's what I said when it came in"
"who's it made by?"
"I dunno it says Honor Guard"
"okay, so who makes it?"
"Honor Guard? I don't know"
in small letters it said "HONOR DEFENSE"
weird, offbeat guns get my attention. it got my attention. price tag of $170 further piqued my interest.
I had him take it out of the case so I could look at it.
the stippling on the plastic frame felt very good. however it was a single stack 9mm with an accordingly thin grip, and the slide was thicker than it needed to be so it felt top-heavy side to side. it could really use a thinner slide, I'll say that much.
took the magazine out (8 or 9 rounds, steel) racked the slide and checked the chamber. started to pull the trigger. it felt like the start of a long, scratchy, spongy, horrid trigger pull. then all of a sudden it went' *click*. that was very short. then a fair amount of overtravel. so, you get 1/4 of a horrid trigger but then it breaks so it's not so bad.
took the slide off to examine the internals. things got more interesting.
it seemed to me that an attempt was made to make a striker-fired plastic pistol with the engineers doing everything they could to avoid making yet another copy of a Glock. the internal parts were almost completely seperate from the frame, forming some sort of metal linkage from the locking block all the way back to the stiker, with no parts cast in the plastic except the serial number plate.
frankly it looked like a nightmare to disassemble and looked like primitive technology from the 80's. little springs and bars were used to do what a simple plunger could do. overlapping lengths of flat steel pinned together made redundant weight and complexity and took up space. the sear, normally nothing more than a tab, was 1/2" wide and shaped like the hook on the end of an AK-47 hammer.
on the top half, it had a striker safety and again it used a rotating lever with a spring stuck on the slide like an afterthought, instead of a simple plunger.
wish I had a picture. nothing inside that gun inspired confidence. but, it was interesting to examine because it was different, and if I had $170 to blow I would have bought it just to mess with it. if you're interested in cheap truck guns, or just plain interested in the unusual, you might want to check it out.
http://honordefense.com/
on the other side it said "HONOR GUARD" in big letters. I said "whut the heyell?"
"that's what I said when it came in"
"who's it made by?"
"I dunno it says Honor Guard"
"okay, so who makes it?"
"Honor Guard? I don't know"
in small letters it said "HONOR DEFENSE"
weird, offbeat guns get my attention. it got my attention. price tag of $170 further piqued my interest.
I had him take it out of the case so I could look at it.
the stippling on the plastic frame felt very good. however it was a single stack 9mm with an accordingly thin grip, and the slide was thicker than it needed to be so it felt top-heavy side to side. it could really use a thinner slide, I'll say that much.
took the magazine out (8 or 9 rounds, steel) racked the slide and checked the chamber. started to pull the trigger. it felt like the start of a long, scratchy, spongy, horrid trigger pull. then all of a sudden it went' *click*. that was very short. then a fair amount of overtravel. so, you get 1/4 of a horrid trigger but then it breaks so it's not so bad.
took the slide off to examine the internals. things got more interesting.
it seemed to me that an attempt was made to make a striker-fired plastic pistol with the engineers doing everything they could to avoid making yet another copy of a Glock. the internal parts were almost completely seperate from the frame, forming some sort of metal linkage from the locking block all the way back to the stiker, with no parts cast in the plastic except the serial number plate.
frankly it looked like a nightmare to disassemble and looked like primitive technology from the 80's. little springs and bars were used to do what a simple plunger could do. overlapping lengths of flat steel pinned together made redundant weight and complexity and took up space. the sear, normally nothing more than a tab, was 1/2" wide and shaped like the hook on the end of an AK-47 hammer.
on the top half, it had a striker safety and again it used a rotating lever with a spring stuck on the slide like an afterthought, instead of a simple plunger.
wish I had a picture. nothing inside that gun inspired confidence. but, it was interesting to examine because it was different, and if I had $170 to blow I would have bought it just to mess with it. if you're interested in cheap truck guns, or just plain interested in the unusual, you might want to check it out.
http://honordefense.com/
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I had a 95% 1950 A-5 Browning for sale locally a while back.People offered plastic Taurus pistols,Mossberg 500s and Honor Guard pistols even trade for the Browning.Still not sure if they were stupid or hoped I was. 0 -
Between your description and a little bit of the picture, it makes me wonder if it is in the Jennings, Bryco, Lorcin, ect family lineage. 0 -
lifetime warranty sorta reminds me of the scyy? pistols out now........ 0 -
I wish they wouldn't advertise that gun as American made. 0 -
I think those are all blowback.bambihunter wrote:Between your description and a little bit of the picture, it makes me wonder if it is in the Jennings, Bryco, Lorcin, ect family lineage.0 -
another Taurus,,, 0 -
I think American rifleman did an in depth review of these awhile back - being very nice to them and pushing the American made entry level affordable aspects...
I have never seen or handled one and don't know anybody who owns one or had tested one out.
I am much more interested in the new compact ccw edc semiautomatic pistols with the mossberg logo test accept Glock magazines...
The honor family of guns look to be a dressed up or well behaved and well presented cheap pistol - the best of the not so nice guns found in the ghetto - it looks like its trying real hard to be a nice looking entry level gun..
I wish the company well - they may have high point functionality and reliability - they may grow into something better - but I will not hold my breath.
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somebody did a test of these cheep guns between a Hi-Point, Lorcin and a Jennings. they said the Hi-Point was finicky with some ammo, the Lorcin jammed every other round and the frame broke after 45 rounds, while the Jennings did just fine.
https://www.gun-tests.com/issues/10_1/features/4656-1.html#.Xc_y43NMHqB0
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