Even though I have law enforcement experience, I’ve never emptied my primary weapon and been pinned in a position that prevented me from getting to my sidearm. I can’t remember the last time I went prone. Although, the MULE gives your backup piece a backup. Also, having a pistol on your hip makes a lot more sense. Mounted to a tactical rifle set up it adds a lot of weight and changes the balance of a typical AR. The MULE is well made, there is no question about that. So what do I think of the MULE? Well, as I said above it is heavy and rather bulky. As I’m here to tell the tale, you can assume everything went as planned. While there’s no real way to pull the trigger on the GLOCK inside the stock, you still have to get cozy, right on top of a loaded GLOCK. I was a bit nervous when I pulled the trigger the first time. I’ll just throw this in here, as it needs to be said. But there’s a time and a place for this set up. As fast as I could from a holster on my hip? No, not remotely that fast. I was able to go from shooting the AR, drawing the Glock, and shooting it relatively fast. The heaviness aside, the MULE functioned flawlessly. You could get to 12 or 13 pounds quickly. Think of how much it would weight if I went to a more traditional optic and a foregrip and all the other AR gizmos. I only have an Aim Point point mounted at this time. The AR I used for this review tips the scales at just under 8 lbs. The older Magpul stock I had on the AR comes in at just under. This set up adds right at 3.5 pounds to the rifle. Add another 30 ounces of loaded GLOCK 19 and you quickly have a butt heavy rifle. But that 27 ounces is with an empty MULE. With the 27 ounce MULE mounted up my carbine length AR, it remained balanced. As most of you will know, ARs tend to be delicately balanced (or a bit front heavy when you load up the quad rail). So once everything was mounted up to the AR and the holster installed it was time to take the MULE for a ride. It is relatively tightly held–think of a quality Kydex holster and how it holds a pistol. The pistol is held in the holster by friction. It is a little tricky to get it lined up just right so it will slide onto the dovetails, but once it is installed it feels very secure. The holster is held in place with dovetails. The review sample was shipped with a holster for a GLOCK 19 sized pistol. That is all fine and dandy but you can put a gun in a gun, too! With the storage box removed you can mount up one of the holsters. This is the box you can use to hold a small first aid kit, little tools, emergency prophylactics… what ever will fit, really. It is held in place by friction and seems to be reasonably well secured. When you open the MULE the box pulls out with a small tug. The MULE comes with the storage box installed. All told, at the range, it took about four minutes. Those two bits and an armorer’s wrench were all the tools required to mount the MULE. There is one other star head bit needed that was not supplied for the bolt that holds the stock to the supplied buffer tube.
There was one star bit in the MULE box that fit the screws that hold the butt pad on. I had to use the spacer and it worked correctly. The MULE also comes with a spacer for inside the buffer tube if you have a carbine length spring.
#Star pistol shoulder stock install#
If you can change out a stock on an AR you can install a MULE, which is exactly what you are doing. The lower (well most of it) is from Palmetto State, the MULE mounted to it with ease. This is a Frankenstein rifle, part this and part that. This is the one that gets review products installed on it. I used what I refer to as my “review” AR. Strong bore and very nice grips.All mounted up on the lower. It is an all matching gun except for a mismatched shoulder stock. This particular gun is in remarkable 93-95% original condition with some thinning of the straps and minor muzzle wear, as well as a couple thin scratches on the left side of the slide. Total production was just over 5,000 units. Most were sold to China where they were heavily used and finally melted down. Conceived as competitor to the Mauser C96 Broomhandle pistol, the gun was based on a Browning design, but was made with an extended barrel that protruded forward of the slide and a detachable shoulder stock, making it into a truly formidable weapon. 1/31/19 - This is a very scarce Spanish Star Model A carbine pistol, made in the late 1920s, chambered in hard hitting Mauser 7.63mm Broomhandle cartridge and equipped with an extended factory barrel and a shoulder stock.
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