GigaBuist
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I'm not so much looking for help on the subject... I just thought I'd entertain everybody here with a story. Sit back and relax. Feel free to laugh at me when it's all done.
I've had failure to eject (not feed, not extract, just eject) problems with my P3AT since I got it out of the box. Such is life with KelTec. They will make it good so I'm not stressing about that really.
I saw over on KTOG.org that there's a little 'modification' that you can make to the extractor that people say helps reliability. Since I own a Dremel (which I bought the day after the KelTec) I figured I'd give it a shot.
Well, today the new extractor arrives. I pull up the pictures on the 'net and begin grinding bits and pieces away. I'm pretty sure I got it right so I go to remove the drift pin in the slide. Well, that's not so easy since I haven't found anybody in the area that sells a decent set of tools for this. I make due with an allen wrench that's the right size. It's not perfect, but it works. Remove pin, insert new extractor and spring, off to the range!
Total failure. I mean bad. If I got through an entire magazine I was really lucky. It happened once out of 100 rounds. I even had to take the thing apart to pull a shell casing out of the barrel. Seems one of my cases had a little "buldge" problem too and it took some fighting to get that one out.
I return home, thinking I must not have done a good enough job modifying the extractor. I tear the gun down, pull out the allen wrench, and get to cracking again. Well, I hit the wrench with a hammer, it vibrates in a weird way which causes it to JUMP 6 feet across the room and land near my TV. Right in the surge protector. I mean IN the surge protector! It's sitting in an outlet that's currently used by my PS2. Being an idiot and panicking (not wanting to cause a black-out of my entire apartment building) I try and yank the thing out real quick. Before unplugging it. Idiot. Sparks fly, things smell burned, and the PS2 just shut right off. I probably blew the PS2's power supply. I'll check later when I'm not all irked.
I'll try and tweak the extractor once more. If that fails, original one goes back in for one more field test and then it's back to KelTec if it's not running 100%. I just want 100 round of ammo to go down range without a single hitch. I can tolerate a 1/500 failure with this thing but not 1/5 which is my current tally.
Heck, it was failing to go into battery today. I really must need to polish the snot out of the internals.
Edit:
Just so this report isn't totally negative my trip out last week with the CZ-75B was again flawless. Went bang every time, extracted, ejected, and chambered the next one up like clockwork. Perfect. Shots on target, making me feel like Lead Hose God for the night.
I've had failure to eject (not feed, not extract, just eject) problems with my P3AT since I got it out of the box. Such is life with KelTec. They will make it good so I'm not stressing about that really.
I saw over on KTOG.org that there's a little 'modification' that you can make to the extractor that people say helps reliability. Since I own a Dremel (which I bought the day after the KelTec) I figured I'd give it a shot.
Well, today the new extractor arrives. I pull up the pictures on the 'net and begin grinding bits and pieces away. I'm pretty sure I got it right so I go to remove the drift pin in the slide. Well, that's not so easy since I haven't found anybody in the area that sells a decent set of tools for this. I make due with an allen wrench that's the right size. It's not perfect, but it works. Remove pin, insert new extractor and spring, off to the range!
Total failure. I mean bad. If I got through an entire magazine I was really lucky. It happened once out of 100 rounds. I even had to take the thing apart to pull a shell casing out of the barrel. Seems one of my cases had a little "buldge" problem too and it took some fighting to get that one out.
I return home, thinking I must not have done a good enough job modifying the extractor. I tear the gun down, pull out the allen wrench, and get to cracking again. Well, I hit the wrench with a hammer, it vibrates in a weird way which causes it to JUMP 6 feet across the room and land near my TV. Right in the surge protector. I mean IN the surge protector! It's sitting in an outlet that's currently used by my PS2. Being an idiot and panicking (not wanting to cause a black-out of my entire apartment building) I try and yank the thing out real quick. Before unplugging it. Idiot. Sparks fly, things smell burned, and the PS2 just shut right off. I probably blew the PS2's power supply. I'll check later when I'm not all irked.
I'll try and tweak the extractor once more. If that fails, original one goes back in for one more field test and then it's back to KelTec if it's not running 100%. I just want 100 round of ammo to go down range without a single hitch. I can tolerate a 1/500 failure with this thing but not 1/5 which is my current tally.
Heck, it was failing to go into battery today. I really must need to polish the snot out of the internals.
Edit:
Just so this report isn't totally negative my trip out last week with the CZ-75B was again flawless. Went bang every time, extracted, ejected, and chambered the next one up like clockwork. Perfect. Shots on target, making me feel like Lead Hose God for the night.