Recent content by Patrick Gookin

I don't see how that could've happened. The Grip Safety is supposed to physically block the trigger from movement. The competitor must've filed off the protrusion on the front side of the grip safety, disabling it permantently. Either that, or the grip safety was being depressed while the...

I'd just buy new bushings. The previous owner probably didn't know he didn't need to torque down the grip screws so tightly.

Are you sure the slide was fully forward when you couldn't pull the trigger? If the slide isn't fully forward, the disconnect will be engaged, disconnecting the trigger from the sear. You will still be able to pull the trigger, but it'll feel like a lighter trigger pull and the gun won't go off...

Skeletonized triggers are also lighter, making them less susceptible to trigger bounce, allowing for a lighter trigger pull.

I believe all Glocks have a passive firing pin block. The trigger has to be pulled for the striker to be able to hit the primer.

If you've still got questions, I'd send TITAN308 a message. I've seen some of his duracoat project pictures in passing, and it looks like he knows what he's doing.

I've always had Failure to Eject issues with TULA ammo in my 1911. Everything I've ever shot has worked perfectly except TULA.

What kind of ammo are you using? I used to try the Russian brands of ammo, but I would always get failures to eject and feed and all kinds of problems. I switched to brass cased ammo and I've never had a problem since. All the lube in the world wouldn't convince my AR to work properly with...

I know with 1911's, different firing pin stops can change the force required to rack the slide with the hammer down. The original ones had less of a radius on the bottom, making it harder to rack. JMB replaced them with larger radius firing pin stops, making it much easier to rack the slide with...

The 15 should be a 17 there, but you used a 17 in the math, so the outcome is still correct.

The Colt 1903 / 1908 pocket pistols have a hammer located intside the slide for those very reasons. There's even another thread discussing it right now. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=686823

If I'm not mistaken, I believe old primers were made with mercury. I think the primers became unstable if improperly stored for a long time, which is probably what happened with the surplus ammo I had. From what I've read, newer primers are composed of much more stable components, but that...

I had something similar happen to a revolver once. The brass broke in half when I tried to pull it out. I just carefully tapped the case out with a brass punch. Maybe a cleaning rod will catch on the brass in the chamber and you can lightly tap it out? Keep in mind I'm not a gunsmith or trained...

I was shooting some surplus 8mm Mauser ammo out of a K98 a couple years ago and I had to have chosen the worst batch of 8mm surplus ammo ever. Every other round was a hang fire. The firing pin would strike and the primer would ignite 5 seconds later. I stopped shooting a handfull of rounds in...

What's with the front sight? Was the blade too thin to be picked up in the photo? It almost looks like the top part of the slide raises up to a point near the front.