Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Bangity

I shot a five-stage ICORE match recently. I brought two Model 28s. One locked up; it could have been a gun issue, it could have been an ammo issue (.357 mid-range reloads), but I switched to the other gun, anyway, and reshot the stage. (Memo to self: Always bring two guns to a match if you can.)

The second gun had a few light strikes during the match. There were two factors to that. One was the mainspring, which had been bent to reduce the force on the hammer. The second was the mainspring strain screw. This is both the screw that was in the gun and a new one:



The new one is on the top, the one that was in the gun is on the bottom. As you can see, the top of the screw was ground off. That is an old trick for a cheap trigger job (as is rebending the mainspring). Doing that is fine if one sets aside such a gun as a range-only gun. But if you're not willing to do that, don't fuck with it.

Replacement parts are in the gun. The trigger pull is noticeably heavier, so I am reasonably confident that the issue with light strikes is in the rear view.

4 comments:

Eck! said...

That's a sloppy way to do that.
The person that did should be hurt with the butt.


Eck!

Comrade Misfit said...

It was an old cop trick, back in the day. They used to just back off the screw, but spot inspections would catch that and the cop would get a RIP.

Comrade Misfit said...

Anyway, it’s a cheap, quick and easy thing to fix.

Sikhandtake said...

I watched a video on YT where a fellow had to re-temper the spring on an antique (a flintlock maybe?) pistol

Routine was, heat until red and bend,
reheat until red then immed quench
carefully, very carefully, clean off all the scale from that
gently reheat until the metal acquires the familiar blue hue

Spring steel, heated, quenched, and untempered, is drop-on-floor-and-shatter brittle.

So, I imagine if replacement springs for that pistol are cheap enough to play with, you could attempt to bend one yourself.