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Picked this up from Austins son Bill. I am going to try to build my own mini. Really wanted the Behlert bushing wrench.

Moderators maybe we should come up with a "amatuer hour " forum so us home hacks can display our butchery.

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Gary Eastridge
http://www.randgfirearms.com

Gary-
I'll join you at the amatuer hour bar and grill with my own work. Good luck with the project.

Mark

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https://www.graffcustom.com/

Mark, I wouldnt call your work amature though, dont try to be modest.

Gary, I think that would be a great idea. Then I would join you after I begged Mark to teach me. Nice find BTW.

Gary, Nice item. I bid on one that was auctioned on a site last year. It was built on a post 1976 slide. I did not get it.

I had Mr. Behlert's shop build me a chopped BHP on a target model Belgian "245" BHP. It was a great little hideout gun. I had some problems with recoil springs in 1986, after having fired 20,000 rounds of hot US navy ammo through it. It needed a new barrel, so I sent the slide and barrel to BAR STO, and they made me two barrels....one in 9x19 and the other in 9x21, so I could carry it in Italy with the US navy. Barsto did a great job in basically building me a new set of barrels from scratch. They were the one piece barrels.

I ended up selling the Behlert BHP with spare full length slide and spare barrels, when I changed jobs. The current owner loaned it to his son, who is a US Drug Enforcement Special Agent, who keeps it as a non-approved back up for undercover use.....it still soldiers on with new springs from Wolff.

Great shooter. Due to the hot ammo I was shooting (Israeli 9mm SMG ammo for the Uzi, which later broke Beretta 92SBF slides by the case) I experimented with a recoil spring guide for the 30 Luger BHP, since it had a small plunger on the front, but a gunsmith in Connecticut told me not to use the plunger since it could bind the slide.....only problem with the older slide conversions was finding nice condition extractors.....

You sir, have a nice project in the making. Look to Bill Loughridge at Cylinder & Slide if you have any questions on mods.....he is always helpful & his chopped BHP is similar. Art Leckie has passed (so I hear) as he took up the Behlert conversion for a time & Peter Kokalis wrote it up with great pictures in Small Arms review.

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It's always better to have a gun & not need it, than need a gun and not have it. Politicians have armed guards, Americans have ARMS.

Looking forward to seeing the end result.

gary, you always come up with the coolest stuff

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Thanks very much,
Robert (13.45)
NRA Benefactor Life member

If I could afford one, I think those chopped hi powers would be the perfect hideout gun.