Grips for 40 Caliber Baby Eagle Magnum Research

Subsequently the infamous 1986 Miami shootout, the FBI convinced itself that its agents were under-gunned. Special Agent-in-Charge John Hall of the Firearms Training Unit channeled his inner Scotty, declaring "we need more power!" The Agency adopted handguns firing Smith & Wesson's how-about-this-and then necked-down 10mm cartridge. Yaysayers claimed .40 S&W offered more stopping ability than 9mm and greater carrying chapters than a .45 ACP. True, but …

The .40 Southward&W round is snappier than Chelydra serpentina. Reflecting government efficiency, it'due south just taken 26 years for the FBI to acknowledge the round's recoil "issues" and transition to 9mm handguns firing improved hollowpoint cartridges. With other law-enforcement agencies following conform, the .twoscore S&Due west is a dead caliber walking.

Before you become, say hullo to my little friend — the Magnum Research polymer-framed Baby Desert Eagle 3 in .xl S&Due west.

By "little" I mean "total-sized." The Baby Desert Eagle III stretches a full eight 3/5 inches from beavertail to snout (including a rifled 4.43-inch barrel). Information technology'due south likewise a heavy erstwhile thing. Load upward the polymer-framed firearm to max chapters (13 + i in this version) and the handgun tips the scales at 28 ounces. That's 10 ounces less than the fatter-handled BDE Two — and only 3 ounces lighter than the 10mm GLOCK xx.

Yes, well, GLOCKs don't look nearly as cool as Desert Eagles. The all-blackness BDE III's newfound angularity would make a way model's cheekbones jealous. Celebrating the Baby Deagle'southward 30th altogether (mazel tov!), the gun's designers deployed the cuts to good apply, hiding the BDE Three's sky-high diameter axis while providing a billboard for Magnum Research'south new supplier (now that IWI is selling the Jericho).

Equally you lot'd expect from a ballistic riff on the CZ-75, the BDE Three is a perfectly proportioned piece. The stippled finger indents add a nuance of brio to the gat, making the nose-heaving handgun a joy to hand and to hold. Along with the wonderfully finger-friendly apartment, apostrophe-shaped trigger.

That said, all is not well in ergonomicsland.

The BDE Three'southward enlarged, left-side-only slide stop is beyond thumb reach for smaller-handed folk (who may have wanted to use it equally a slide release). Worse, the small, pointy-ended, ambidextrous safe/decocker is hard to disengage, and renders combat racking the BDE III's slide uncomfortable to the point of inadvisability. Best do: Turn the gun sideways, take hold of the slide past its "ears" and pull. While pleasantly gangsta, the technique requires non-ideal sight realignment.

The BDE Iii's 12- to 13-pound double-activity trigger pull is longer than War and Peace. Unless you lot're a police officer trained to shoot a New York trigger-equipped GLOCK — and even if you lot are — the Infant Deagle'south Falstaff-stout trigger pull presents a worrying accuracy challenge. Half-cocking the trigger simply serves to halve the epic journey.

On the positive side, the trigger'due south silky smooth and breaks cleanly. Better yet, the BDE III's single-action trigger pull falls to a convenient 4.v pounds. There's a short take-up leading to a wall o' interruption. No grit, no slop, just click BANG. Best of all, the BDE Three'south trigger reset is as curt, crisp and controllable equally the SIG SAUER Legion, the reigning male monarch of DA/SA handgun trigger reset.

Thanks to its non-inconsiderable size and weight, hand-friendly grip and get-go-grade single-action trigger, the BDE Three [finally] tames the Due south&W .40 cartridge'south much maligned recoil. In unmarried-activity way, the gun made holes exactly where I aimed. (Target at 10 yards, sucky shooter, closed grade.) And continued to exercise so for 500 rounds of mixed ammo, without any malfunctions.

All of which answers the "what" and "how" but still leaves "why" on the proverbial tabular array.

Wouldn't you rather conduct a more than hands concealed total-size .45-caliber 1911 in your holster? You're "only" giving up four rounds and the "safety" of a DA/SA trigger. And as sexy every bit the BDE III is compared to its GLOCK equivalent, John Moses Browning'south unmarried-action brainchild is a similarly weighty tack-driver that makes subsequent gun designs its bowwow.

By the same token, you could purchase a xiii-round GLOCK 21 for cocky defence. If Deagles are your matter you buy a .45-quotient Infant Desert Hawkeye Three. Or gain enough o' capacity and controllability with the 9mm version. Or become mad, buy a total-on Desert Eagle and burn .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum or .50 AE cartridges. With a blackness tiger stripes! Or aureate accents! But not both …

All that bated, if you lot desire a reliable, comfy, controllable .twoscore-S&Due west-firing handgun, the Magnum Inquiry Infant Desert Eagle 3 fits the bill. Peradventure non every bit well every bit the less-expensive .xl-caliber IWI Jericho PL with its frame-mounted, sensibly designed safety/decocker (a la CZ-75). But that's a comparison for another day. For now, the BDE III is a perfectly usable, completely reliable "fotay." How slap-up is that?

SPECIFICATIONS:

Action: Semi-auto

Structure: Polymer frame, high quality carbon-steel slide and accompaniment rails

Stop: Black textured polymer frame, black oxide on slide

Caliber: .40 Southward&W

Barrel Length : iv.43 inches

Height: 5.75 inches

Weight: 28 ounces (38 ounces in all steel)

Overall Length : 8.375 inches

Slide Width : 1.53 inches

Trigger: Double Activeness/Single Action (DA/SA) with slide-mounted prophylactic and teardrop-shaped decocking mechanism, squared trigger guard

Sights: White three-dot, fixed combat-type

Magazines: 2 13-round magazines

MSRP : $646 ($691 in all steel)

RATINGS:

Way: * * * * *

Well-judged slide cuts and perfect proportions.

Ergonomics: * * *

The Baby Hawkeye is a pleasure to concord, just the slide finish's also far away for pocket-sized handed-shooters and the tiny, awkward safety/decocker "ears" makes it unsuitable for gainsay racking.

Reliability: * * * * *

No problems.

Accuracy: * * * * *

Spot on. In my instance, ridiculously so.

Customize This: * * *

A standard track under the barrel mounts lights and lasers. Can't replace iii-dot sights without serious 'smithing.

Overall: * * * *

The Baby Eagle 3 can be purchased in polymer or steel frame, full size or semi-compact, and in 9mm, .xl S&W and .45 ACP calibers. This one, in .40 Due south&Westward, was tamed via weight, size, ergonomics and a smoothen, quick-reseting single-action trigger. The awkward slide-mounted safety mars an otherwise stellar package.

Grips for 40 Caliber Baby Eagle Magnum Research

Source: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gun-review-magnum-researchbul-ltd-polymer-framed-baby-desert-eagle-iii-in-40-sw/

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