The Interarms Star Megastar is Sam Cummings' (CIA Gun Runner/Founder of Interarms) gift to America. I have the 10mm model. I'm glad I bought an extra mag, because they dried up at the turn of the century. That extra magazine cost me $60 in 1998 dollars! A few years back, MidwayUSA offered 45 mag made by Meggar .The Brady Bill congress passed put an end to its importation because of its physical size. Mine is accurate and I cant remember any feeding/ejection failures, ever. Recoil is manageable , probable because it weighs over 3 lbs, empty. Your Megastar has what Star referred to as the Starvel finish. I still hope some gun manufacture would just pick up where InterArms left off and produce these big guns again. I' m glad I bought the MegaStar over the AMT Javalina 10mm (p.o.s.). Great Video.
Thank you for the great comments and background. With folks who know 10mm loving the Megastar version so much, I doubt I’ll ever land one.. at least not without having to finance it 😅
I have the same gun, love the thing. Its a great piece, found one early and didnt realize what a gem it was and didnt take care of it. Now, I need to update some internal parts
Awesome gun and great video too! Hopefully I can get my hands on one of these beauties soon. I have a Star Model 28DA myself and it is my favorite gun to shoot.
I recommend using a lead clean gun cloth (I use pro-shot) on the Megastar. It can't be used on blued guns, but it will clean up stainless or nickel finish perfectly. Then a coat of ballistol. That will make that Megastar look brand new.
M2 = 1992. Only 664 were made in 45. I wonder how many were imported to have the had the Interarms stamp? I'm expecting to receive my Starvel 45 very soon which has a Interams logo misstamping which was rectified at the factory by linishing it out and restamping it over the top, 1/4" further on. It is still visible when you look closely, making this one a very unusual variation. As my blued 10 and 45 also from 1992, my guesses are that Interarms had them early on in their production, and I'm looking forward receiving my Starvel finished one to see what the year of manufacture will be.
Many believe that Star Bonifacio Echeveria looked to the CZ75 for inspiration when designing the Star M28/30/31 series, especially when it came to the internal rail system. There is no documented evidence to suggest this was the case. However, there is visual cues that suggest Star might have been looking at the Sig P210, which incidentally is a descendent of the SACM pistol, for its inspiration to create a new pistol line and steer the company in a new direction away from its 1911 lineage dating back to the Spanish civil war. This speculative idea might have also inspired another Spanish firearms company, Astra, to look to the Sig-Sauer P220 and P226 pistols when designing the Astra A80/A90/A100 pistols.
Can you do a complete disassembly and cleaning video I just recently got one and want to clean it really good but don’t want to brake something from not know how to take it apart peace by peace
Likely someone did. This was common practice with Spanish armorers on the 30 series - just pop off the disconnect. Check on the inside frame for a void opposite the sear. Either way, don’t need it.
Hey, I have a question about something you said - do Para Ordnance 14 round mags work in the Megastar? If not, is it possible to make them work with modification? Thanks. Great video, by the way
I wonder if one of the Magguts kits will work to add capacity? I too read about the P14 mag working in these. I already ordered one so I guess I'll be seeing for myself. Might have to buy a p14 since it looks like I'll have a mag lol.
Nobody knows about them and everybody who does know about them talks crap about them. I just heard TFB TV call Spain "the Mexico of Europe". Super unfair, Spain always made pretty excellent guns, at least Star did. Stars also use a completely different barrel lock up system which is super innovative but nobody appreciates them.
The myth of soft steel aside (Google Toledo steel), I’ve found Spanish firearms to defiantly be on the innovative side of things. I did state defiantly, not definitely. Star for sure lead the pack in that regard, whereas Astra probably had a slight edge in terms of quality overall.
@@tafino Shit even Llama which is easily the worst Spanish gun company (at least compared to Star and Astra) made unbelievably innovative stuff, like the Llama Omni.
Before the Spanish Civil War, dozens of workshops mostly in Eibar produced pistols of varying quality. These included excellent guns as well as total garbage pieces, particularly very poor quality revolvers made in terribly soft steel. Thousands of those ended in the USA. This would come to unfairly stain spanish handgun quality reputation, even to present days. After the war, only three companies were autorized to produce pistols (STAR, ASTRA ans LLAMA) in order to paliate the issue. Salud
