GunnySkox
Member
Howdy, everyone,
I built a 20" (Would you believe it, like three people came up and expressed their... I don't know that I'd call it than-- ah, gladness that I'd built up a 20 incher, instead of a shorter one. Weird.) AR on a DPMS A-15 lower and a kit purchased from Del-Ton over June, and had my first opportunity to shoot it on Tuesday.
About half way through my second (20 round) magazine of firing rapidly, my AR tripled. I looked around the range to see if anyone was giving me quizzical looks and tried it again: it quadrupled.
At that point, I read my AR the riot act with a complimentary burlap sack of what-for while clearing it and popping the pins to separate the upper and lower.
After a minute or so of fiddling, I found that the trigger pin had waddled its way to the left enough so that it'd come out of its hole on the right side, which made the trigger and disconnector hang noticeably down and to the rear, which I assume gave them only a tenuous grasp of the hammer, leading to my rifle multipling without my consent.
It was easy enough to wiggle the trigger a little and get the pin to go back in its hole, and the gun shot fine for the rest of my time on the range (but for another incident or two of that damned pin walking out), but now I've got to do something about it, so here's some questions:
A) What could've led to this? A pin too small? A hole too big? Anything I can do anything about without just up and replacing the parts?
B) Which companies make reasonably-priced, effective anti-walk pins?
Thanks in advance, y'all,
~GnSx
I built a 20" (Would you believe it, like three people came up and expressed their... I don't know that I'd call it than-- ah, gladness that I'd built up a 20 incher, instead of a shorter one. Weird.) AR on a DPMS A-15 lower and a kit purchased from Del-Ton over June, and had my first opportunity to shoot it on Tuesday.
About half way through my second (20 round) magazine of firing rapidly, my AR tripled. I looked around the range to see if anyone was giving me quizzical looks and tried it again: it quadrupled.
At that point, I read my AR the riot act with a complimentary burlap sack of what-for while clearing it and popping the pins to separate the upper and lower.
After a minute or so of fiddling, I found that the trigger pin had waddled its way to the left enough so that it'd come out of its hole on the right side, which made the trigger and disconnector hang noticeably down and to the rear, which I assume gave them only a tenuous grasp of the hammer, leading to my rifle multipling without my consent.
It was easy enough to wiggle the trigger a little and get the pin to go back in its hole, and the gun shot fine for the rest of my time on the range (but for another incident or two of that damned pin walking out), but now I've got to do something about it, so here's some questions:
A) What could've led to this? A pin too small? A hole too big? Anything I can do anything about without just up and replacing the parts?
B) Which companies make reasonably-priced, effective anti-walk pins?
Thanks in advance, y'all,
~GnSx