I thought I had a good one.
When I started it just had a few misfires and needed some tweaking.
This all started July 5th 2003
When I got it back after 4 weeks, it would not even shoot.
It would fire in Single Action mode but would not stay cocked after the slide cycled.
I even had a double tap from it.
It also would not even attempt to fire in Double Action.
I called Roger and he was very apologetic and offered to fix it free if I wanted to send it to him, or he would just refund my money.
I figured it was a freak thing and sent it to him.
Then after numerous email transactions where he stated he would have it done and ready this week, or get to it next week, or still working on it maybe, I can get back to it the week after next.
I am sorry but when someone does a job and it goes bad and you let them try to fix it, by my thinking it goes to the top of the list. Other customers that came later do not bump it. Your item gets number one priority, until it is fixed.
Well Roger apparently does not do business that way.
After 9 more weeks of false promises and being put off till next well I asked for it back with ALL my original parts, and my money.
Well he sent it with my money but it is "not the same gun" I sent him.
Oh, it is my gun but he managed to break the mag catch and told me it just happened and must have been bad, and replaced it with a BLUE one when my gun is STAINLESS. ( I do not buy it, I think it was careless and bad business), then he knocked the inserts for the grip screws out and blew it off like it was nothing. I had had the grips off numerous times and NEVER had ANY problem with the inserts being loose or anything
My drawbar is not "my" drawbar. It is chrome and has been bent to the point of the chrome flaking off in 2-3 places, with a drawbar spring that looks like it got caught in a blender.
My main spring is not the original it has also been cut.
My Sear spring was also been replaced by a different spring.
So my new Gunsmith looked at it and the first thing he asked was “who took a bastard file to the back of the barrel and the rampâ€. ( That would be Roger cleaning up the back from the dry fire hits.
Which may also explain why my firing pin and spring are different then orig.
Then he showed me the release piece that caused the double tap. It apparently was to short so it was penned to make it taller.
So basically it seems that Roger just screwed up my gun by getting in over his head and
Would not admit it before he messed up more parts. His repair has now cost me $150 over what I was going to have paid him to fix it, by having to fix what he screwed up.
Never again will a send a gun to anybody I do not know personally.
Hell the reason I did not send it to Cylinder and Slide was because they had a 6 month waiting list.
Heck I would have been better off in the long run and I have NO DOUBT they COULD fix it RIGHT.
Well now I have ordered a new barrel, release piece, firing pin & spring, drawbar & spring and sear spring, as well as new grips.
Not hard at all to find once someone that knows tells you where to look.
Well all the parts are in and we will work on it next week
More later.
PS No Hard feelings Jody
I just learned a lesson the hard way.
I truly hope your luck continues to be good with Roger of which I have no hard
feelings toward either, as I have more important things to think about
