So far, I have been shooting with CCW9mm three times. Seems like every time I shoot one of his handguns, I break it. Always the same way, too. The firing mechanism fails to engage somehow and all I get is a trigger pull with nothing happening.
My name is ccw9mm. I bring guns to be broken. :frown:
Where's a good 12-Step Program when you need one?
It would be funny if it weren't so expensive. I need some sort of gunsmith insurance policy. I wonder what sort of score the actuarial types in "Hartford" will assign to my application? Ah, me.
I dearly love the CZ P-01 and it has been nearly flawless since new. At the gunsmith, apparently the only issue was a loosening of a screw related to the spring steel piece that keeps the magazine release in its spot. That backed out enough to allow something to interfere with the "trigger bar," such that pulling the trigger failed to move the hammer. The gunsmith's taking it through its paces but has yet to find anything else wrong. So, it should be back soon. (I imagine this is simply a LocTite "Red" type of deal, but we'll see.)
The KelTec P3AT I have just broke, as well. A piece of the polymer about the size of my pinkie fingernail came came off in my hand when I last field stripped it. Haven't determined exactly what the formal function of that piece is, but the gun no longer fires and the slide won't operate properly. So, it's toast. It's currently sitting in a ZipLoc bag in the safe, labeled as "toast -- unk."
The KelTec PF-9 that I recently purchased cheaply and on a whim decided to show its colors, with exceedingly light strikes on the primer. By comparison, the M1 Carbine we played with had very deep, perfect primer strikes. The PF-9 exhibits a strange change in the distance required to reset the trigger, too. Doesn't seem tied to anything, but on one round the reset will be Glock-like in the distance of travel required, whereas on the next round it'll be nearly to full extension. Bad, bad, bad. Needs a little further exploration, but I don't think it will last long in the safe.
You know, if it weren't for the fact that I simply cannot easily manipulate the Glock or SIG slide release, I'd be all over the Glock 19 and 26, or even the SIG 239. But that sort of failure in need could be damaging to my health. (The left hand isn't what it once was, due to damage to fingers about ~15yrs ago, so the controls on a defensive pistol need to be larger and easily manipulated, for me.)
exactlymypoint, one thing that I didn't mention is the new NAA 380 Guardian that I've got. It has yet to be broken in, but we'll play with it next time. I double-dog dare ya to find the same problem in this one. If you do, buddy, I'm calling your wife to complain. :rofl:
So anyone wanna go shooting next weekend??
I'm good with that. NAA 380 Guardian, anyone? :bier: