Star Firestar pistols

[R L Suehr]

My BKS right after I had it cerakoted.

[pagunparts]

Great video

[lemko]

My cousin has a Star Firestar in 9mm. Nice pistol for a modest price but magazines are hard to come by nowadays.

[jaseman]

My father and I both bought matching Star M40's in the Starvel finish when they were brand new. For the time, it carried great, but today it feels like a brick compared to modern compacts. Unfortunately I got rid of mine a few years ago to help fund my wife's Sig 238. Luckily, my father still has his, so I get to take it out to play on occasion.

It's still a great gun. The all steel frame soaks up the snappiness of .40 cal pretty well. Trigger's a bit heavy for my tastes these days, but for the price point, in the mid-90's, it was a hell of a value. Still is today if you can find one - just don't break it! Extractors on earlier ones were the weak link, and are unobtanium today (better off just having a spare parts gun). That said, over the 20 years I owned mine, I had thousands of rounds through it without one failure, ever.

I have several. My first carry gun was a NIB starvel M43. The M43 is a tack driver, the M40's accuracy is 1 minute of broadside of barn.

You must have used a bad M40.

My M40 is a tack driver.

Mine M40 wasn't a tack driver, per se', but it was reasonably accurate for a compact .40. 2"-3" groups at 20' was pretty standard if I did my part.