Anyone broke their PT145 this way?

[dmftoy1]

I was out shooting my PT145 today and having an absolute blast when the slide locked back and failed to eject an empty case. I cleaned the jam and was about to go back to shooting when I noticed a "rattle" inside the gun. (thank god for electronic hearing protection. ) Anyway, I unloaded the gun and field stripped it and found this little piece of metal (picture below).

I couldn't figure out what it was as I couldn't (and still can't) see where it broke off of. I function checked the pistol and it seems to work fine so I finished off the magazine.

Then it occurred to me . . . I had checked the thumb safety and it did lock the slide, but I didn't think to pull the trigger with it engaged . .. .hmm, so I tried it and it sounded/felt like it was firing. I stuck a round in the chamber, engaged the thumb safety and pulled the trigger . .BANG. Ok, so now I know what's wrong . . . . .if the barrel was only threaded I could consider it a feature as with a suppressor and the thumb safety engaged you wouldn't have any noise from the action moving.

Anyway, just thought I'd share. I still love this pistol and I'm a little bummed that I have to send it in for repair but it's giving me a chance to compare them with S&W which is the only other company I've ever had warranty work done with. They're behind right now because I have to ship it at my own expense . . . .hopefully that will be my only complaint.

Have a good one,
Dave

 

[bigmike45]

dmftoy1,

How many rounds do you have through this gun?

What generation is it?

Were you shooting standard 45acp or +P and what bullet weight??

I am asking for purely informational purposes only. I have a 2nd Generation DAO PT-145 Millennium Pro that has over 4000 rounds through it. I am wondering if I am just lucky or is this something to come down the road.

thanks,

bigmike45

 

[dmftoy1]

I've only got 800 rounds through it as of the end of this session. To it's credit the breakage didn't affect anything (other than the initial jam). I put another 100 rounds through it afterwards and they were still hitting exactly where I was aiming. It's in the box here at my desk and headed for UPS this afternoon so it'll be interesting to see how quick Taurus can turn it around.

Have a good one,
Dave

 

[dmftoy1]

I forgot to answer the rest of your post before hitting send.

I was shooting Rainer 200 grain HP's, and 200 Grain LSWC's. They were definately not +p as I don't like shooting the hot stuff on a regular basis. They were up around 850-900 fps.

Regards,
Dave