Brazilian Imbel .380 1911 clone

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ajanini, It appears you got your money's worth out of that target. :)
A neighbor is from Brazil.
He says correctly spoken Portuguese is supposed to sound like Spanish pronounced by a Frenchman.
 
:p

g.willikers said:
A neighbor is from Brazil.
He says correctly spoken Portuguese is supposed to sound like Spanish pronounced by a Frenchman.
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My late wife was from Chile, and I used to visit her family with her every year around Christmas. There were (and, I suppose, still are) a lot of soap operas on Chilean television. It seems most of them are from Brazil, and the over-dubbing of Spanish is blatantly obvious because the words we hear just don't synch at all with the lip movements on the screen.

I think all the buses in Chile are made in Brazil, too.
 
It seems to be shooting a little low and to the left. I used reloaded ammo from the club, shot from about 10 meters, 150 rounds.
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Low and left is common for right-handed beginners. As your trigger control improves, your groups will get smaller and you will likely see the groups shifting towards your point of aim.

If your gun is approved for dry firing, you should practice firing the unloaded pistol while keeping the sights steady.
 
Congratulations. It's a shame you have all the bureaucracy involved in buying and owning guns there, but it looks like you have gotten a good acquisition for yourself.

I would not be surprised if the .380 ACP out of a 5" barrel is almost matching 9mm in common configurations
 
Thanks everyone! You guys are awesome and very welcoming. I'm really excited to be able to practice shooting and improving my skills.

Aguila Blanca said:
What is the current selling price in Brazil for the MD1N (the single stack) version? I may have to renew my search for an importer.
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Latest price I could find is around R$ 3,500 (about $ 1,060 USD).
 
Hi .

I am from Southamerica as well.

In order to avoid the horrendous expensive ammo Prices I started reloading which cuts costs to about 50% and casting which cuts cost to about 30% totalling to about 70% to 80% of savings.

As I understand an poster from Brazil called victorfox in Brazil reloading is somewhat forbidden and casting can not be done without huge paperwork as well (army Permits).

If you can get around it start reloading and casting since in Brazil you can get good Quality CBC gun powder.
 
Just crossing this thread…
Brazil looks like as fun as Belgium regarding gun laws, huge paper work, transport… etc !
Except for calibers, we're more lucky !

20 years ago, military calibers were prohibited > they're not anymore !
.223 / .308 and 9 X 19 were not allowed.
So many people were using .222 (what's the bloody difference ;-), 300 Win Mag (more powerfull than .308 !)…

Now, we can get any caliber for hand guns but only in FMJ… no hollow point, even for the police.
The 9 X 19 is the most popular.
For hunting with rifles, soft point ammo are allowed.
 
Interesting Christian 812,
I assume the gun law Liberation in Belgium is somewhat related to the Separation aspirations of Wallonia (French speaking vs dutch-german speaking parts of the Country)?

Hope that stays like that were I am located and does not get worse.

They are rewriting the local Gun Law and I heard they want to restrict the quantity of guns allowed per Person (Kind of for each household only one gun for self defense). Kind of ridiculous.
Most assaults are locally made by 38 spl caliber Revolvers (the so called motorcycle hijacking. 2 riding on an motorcycle and the passenger jumps with an gun on bystanders ripping off the wallet and cellphone, jumps up the motorcycle again and off they go). If they get robbed about 5 cellphones per day they have earned already their Minimum wages for a day (thats their economic calculation).

Luckily Trumps win on elections has made gone away any fears of gun restrictions in the USA. That for sure will influence local gun laws but unfortunately locally we have not an Gun Lobby since even politicians are often drug Lords&cattle Beef Producers and so the gun issue is locally allways intertwined with Mafia activities.
 
Brazil is here in Southamerica what is the USA for the rest of the world. Everything is Made in Brazil and those People are quiet arrogant and haughty and behave as imperialists.
I the Country I live they (brasilians) are pretty much hated be it with an reason or without reason. Besides that brazilians lack complete morality (see carneval, Nudist People) and frankly are dangerous (are quick to stab or shoot you if they are drunk).

Brasilians say spanish is an bad spoken portuguese. And spanish People say that portuguese is an bad spoken spanish.

So there you have it from my first Hand experiences (we have here lots of brazilian immigrants).
 
TheGuyOfSouthamerica said:
As I understand an poster from Brazil called victorfox in Brazil reloading is somewhat forbidden and casting can not be done without huge paperwork as well (army Permits).
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Yeah, unfortunately it's pretty complicated to reload here. You have to be a veteran shooter (there are "levels" of veterancy which you go through if you participate in competitions, and so on).

Where are you from, TheGuyOfSouthamerica?

christian812 said:
The 9 X 19 is the most popular.
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Competitive shooters (as is my case) are now allowed to own 9x19mm guns. Until a couple of months, this was considered a restricted caliber (armed forces only), as the 5.56/.223 still is. I believe, however, that the .308 is OK. Not sure on this...

TheGuyOfSouthamerica said:
Brazil is here in Southamerica what is the USA for the rest of the world. Everything is Made in Brazil and those People are quiet arrogant and haughty and behave as imperialists.
I the Country I live they (brasilians) are pretty much hated be it with an reason or without reason. Besides that brazilians lack complete morality (see carneval, Nudist People) and frankly are dangerous (are quick to stab or shoot you if they are drunk).

Brasilians say spanish is an bad spoken portuguese. And spanish People say that portuguese is an bad spoken spanish.

So there you have it from my first Hand experiences (we have here lots of brazilian immigrants).
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OUCH! Hope I didn't come out as being arrogant or any of those things... :(
 
Guys let's be friends toward each other.

Are we not here to enjoy firearms together? Not be mean to each other if we're from different countries?

Let's be friends! :)
 
Great and affordable 380 auto ammo

That's a hell of a 1911! Such a beauty! I own two Kimber 1911s. The Imbel is definitely my next 1911 buy!

Just because it's 380 auto ammo doesn't mean that it needs to be expensive.With my 1911 micro two tone I have shot hundreds of rounds through the barrel with only one jam. try it it's great

Try lax ammo-https://www.laxammo.com/lax-factory-new/handgun-new/380-auto-new
 
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I personally have nothing against brasilians. But I try to transmit generalised local Feelings towards certain nations. BTW argentinians are here hated even more. I mention this since an poster said something related portuguese language and he mentioned General circumstances.
BTW, I got not admited at an working place in Canada once because of (and I am quiet sure it was this reason) I was pro USA: (the factory was US owned and had an US flag on their factory). So the next opportunity I got a letter of no admittance.
We are talking here about realities.
Nothing personal guys.

I am happy you guys in Brazil can now own an 9mm Luger. Hope that influences positively local gun laws as well (they are now rewriting the local gun law).

My Location must kept secret and I want Keep anonymity. Till now reloading and casting is somewhat skirting the law. As a Basic rule you may consider this: If it passes customs, it is allowed. If it gets halted by customs it most likely was forbidden. Rules Change here frecuently. Paperwork changes almost each month in order to make it gun traffickers more diffucult to traffic guns or bribe agents. Each personal Change in the gun agency changes most likely the law as well (bribe structures are changed). Seems to huge amounts of very cheap 38 spl Revolvers are flooding the Country now to equip motorcycle Hijackers with them to assault bystanders for Money and cell phones. I believe politicians are behind this and organised criminal associations (most likely hitmen for mariahuana drug Lords).
 
One Thing I do not understand. Why would you want that IMBEL brazilian 1911 gun?

In the US you have way better guns for similar Price (remember those IMBEL in Brazil cost around 1000 USD). And basically an 1911 is an 1911 I assume.

Guns Made in USA are known to be better than any other guns.
 
ShariMlosangeles said:
Just because it's 380 auto ammo doesn't mean that it needs to be expensive.With my 1911 micro two tone I have shot hundreds of rounds through the barrel with only one jam. try it it's great
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Now I'm curious: If you are in Los Angeles, California, USA -- wherever did you find a 1911 chambered in .380 ACP? The Brazilian Imbels are the only ones I've ever seen, and Imbel doesn't export them to the U.S.
 
TheGuyofSouthamerica said:
One Thing I do not understand. Why would you want that IMBEL brazilian 1911 gun?
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For me, two reasons:
  1. Because it would be an excellent pistol for teaching new shooters; and
  2. Because nobody else has one
 
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