wally
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Very dirty gun, last cleaned about 2300 rounds, total now a bit above 3800 rounds, about 3000 Wolf (Approx. half the old lacquer, remainder the new polymer coated), about 600 rnds of my lead SWC using Unique, and about 200 of various factory JHP which it handled without problems.
Had a few minor problems out of the box which I detailed in "Good Day At The Gun Show" thread.
Not too bad from the outside, been using "Dupont Performance Multi-Use" lube. Only wiping down before returning to the safe after shooting.
At first I thought it couldn't reliably feed my SWC reloads, but I'd realized the OAL had crept out over the years to feed my Colts, making them about 0.050" shorter seems to have done the trick as I've shot four hundred rounds of of the shorter loads without problems while mixing in a few boxes of the longer loads to watch the failure to feed problems return -- interestly nearly all of them feed from the mag the second time after clearing, failures are only 3-5 per hundred but this is enough PITA that I'll load at the slightly shorter OAL from now on since this doesn't cause problems in my other guns.
Here's the guts, had a few failure to feed and failure to extract the last 300 rounds so I figured it needed cleaning, but the last box of Wolf functioned 100% despite the grime:
Here's the parts cleaned up:
And a close up view:
Don't see any unusual wear. IMHO not bad for a ~$400 gun of all cast parts.
I'm very happy with the way it shoots.
--wally.
Had a few minor problems out of the box which I detailed in "Good Day At The Gun Show" thread.
Not too bad from the outside, been using "Dupont Performance Multi-Use" lube. Only wiping down before returning to the safe after shooting.
At first I thought it couldn't reliably feed my SWC reloads, but I'd realized the OAL had crept out over the years to feed my Colts, making them about 0.050" shorter seems to have done the trick as I've shot four hundred rounds of of the shorter loads without problems while mixing in a few boxes of the longer loads to watch the failure to feed problems return -- interestly nearly all of them feed from the mag the second time after clearing, failures are only 3-5 per hundred but this is enough PITA that I'll load at the slightly shorter OAL from now on since this doesn't cause problems in my other guns.
Here's the guts, had a few failure to feed and failure to extract the last 300 rounds so I figured it needed cleaning, but the last box of Wolf functioned 100% despite the grime:
Here's the parts cleaned up:
And a close up view:
Don't see any unusual wear. IMHO not bad for a ~$400 gun of all cast parts.
I'm very happy with the way it shoots.
--wally.
