Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Geez, don't take the grips off of a Browning Buckmark...

�unless you want little pieces to fall out all over the place!

Got a new Buckmark Standard UDX model yesterday since I�ve never owned one and figured that was a good enough excuse to get one.

It has a magazine/trigger disconnect and, fearing this may be my only weapon available during Zombie times, went to remove it. Hmmm, no takedown instructions at all in the owner�s manual. Not good.

Figured WTH, remove two screws, take off the grips and see what�s under there. What is under there is a loose slide lock release, mag release button spring and mag button that all fall out on the floor when the grips come off. Oh, yeah, and a chintzy looking little wire rod that disables the trigger when the magazine is removed.

The wire disconnect comes out easily, the mag button and spring more or less go back in okay,but getting the grips on while keeping that slide lock release in place definitely requires that you hold your tongue in just the right place and say just the proper combination of cuss words.

But it does go back together. Now to wait for the weekend and see how it shoots.

It was a brutally hot summer day outside the church and the priest couldn't get his lawnmower started. A passerby offered some advice, "Father, my lawnmower only starts after I curse at it."

"I've been a priest so long I've forgotten how to curse," he replied.

"Well," replied the passerby, "keep pulling that [bleep] rope and it'll come back to you."

wife's Buckmark had an issue where the slide was very hard to pull. I took it apart and am fairly sure some tiny piece fell out and into the only slit of an area of ground I neglected to cover. I discovered the issue (not the missing part) was that little tiny hard rubber piece on the slide spring unit. Turned it upside down and reassembled and problem fixed. No more jams and it slides like it should. Can't help but think though that the gun is now a fraction of a grain lighter.....so I call it her carry piece!

I really wasn't impressed with the design.

Instead of pinned in parts it literally relies on a hard rubber grip to hold everything in place. It has a somewhat Rube Goldberg look about it with bent sheet metal and paper clip looking springs to make all the levers and gadgets work.

However, the proof will be in the shooting and functioning. This is why I spend the bucks on stuff like this, to see first hand just what all the hubbub is about.

If you take the grips off a Sig (P226, P228, P229, P220, etc., you will see the same thing. It looks a bit Rube Goldberg when you first see it, but it works.

My wife's 7" fluted target model is a tack driver!

A little ammo picky, ( it works best with CCI Blazers)
And if anything , the trigger is too light for me ( or I need to shoot it more )
But she has several perfect targets with it . After never picking up a gun. Any gun. Until 18 months ago!

I've said that about most Brownings for years.. Never do a job simply with 1-2 parts when 6 or more parts will git-r-done too..

Jim in Idaho: Thank you very much for the heads-up on the BuckMark situation!
I would most certainly have had the same situation befall me that you endured.
I hate things like that.
My heavy barreled electro-less nickel plated BuckMark will not be having its grips removed by me!
And my BuckMark is a joy to shoot - and its rather accurate for a pistol with a 4 1/2" barrel.
I'll just shoot it, admire it and clean it carefully without removing the grips!
Thanks again.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy