Quadkid
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This weekend I went shooting and had a first time experience I wanted to share.
I went to Hoffman's gun shop with a buddy to put some rounds down range with my Springer 1911. After a few rounds the gun started to not extract the spent brass. It happened about 5 or 6 times within 5 magazines. As I recall it happened once or twice the last time i went shooting as well.
So while my buddy was loading up a couple of magazines I went and asked the range officer what he thought about it; I'm no gunsmith and I'm fairly new to the world of guns so I wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to chance anything. The guy says he's not entirely sure either but called in one of the other guys who's the shop's guru.
I show him the gun, he originally thought maybe there was some buildup behind the extractor, but commented on how clean the gun was. He said "give me 5 minutes" and takes it out of the range.
5 minutes later he walks back in, said he put a little more pressure into the extractor and polished the feed ramp. He also gave me 10 rounds on the house to test it out again. The thing works better than ever now. I ask him what i owe him, and he refused anything. All he wanted was a handshake.
I just thought this was an amazing experience at the range for me. Anyone ever have something similar happen?
I went to Hoffman's gun shop with a buddy to put some rounds down range with my Springer 1911. After a few rounds the gun started to not extract the spent brass. It happened about 5 or 6 times within 5 magazines. As I recall it happened once or twice the last time i went shooting as well.
So while my buddy was loading up a couple of magazines I went and asked the range officer what he thought about it; I'm no gunsmith and I'm fairly new to the world of guns so I wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to chance anything. The guy says he's not entirely sure either but called in one of the other guys who's the shop's guru.
I show him the gun, he originally thought maybe there was some buildup behind the extractor, but commented on how clean the gun was. He said "give me 5 minutes" and takes it out of the range.
5 minutes later he walks back in, said he put a little more pressure into the extractor and polished the feed ramp. He also gave me 10 rounds on the house to test it out again. The thing works better than ever now. I ask him what i owe him, and he refused anything. All he wanted was a handshake.
I just thought this was an amazing experience at the range for me. Anyone ever have something similar happen?