Hey guys,
A little while back I asked a question about why people install skeleton/delta hammers or anything aftermarket what have you...and the general consensus was pretty much because "it looks sooo cool!"
But, is it possible to fix a reliability issue? Now, I don't mean something like light strikes, but loading and ejection issues.
here's the story:
I have a Jericho RS .45acp. For the life of me I could not get this gun to run reliably, I experienced failure to load (bullet would get stuck in the hood of the barrel), Failure to eject (casing would jam between ejection port and hood of barrel) and sometimes just a flat out failure to chamber a round.
I replaced the magazine springs, the extractor, slide lock lever, and the recoil spring with a DPMS recoil spring assembly. Still not a 100% improvement. More like 75%, which it was about at before.
One thing I noticed is an uneven wear on the hammer, that is, the hunk of metal that contains the firing pin and actually interacts with the hammer to cock it, would rub more off to one side of the hammer, instead of making a flush, even contact. If I replaced the hammer with another, one that is possibly set such that the wear with the slide is an even one, could that resolve some of my reliability issues?
Honestly, I'll never carry the gun or use it for home defense, I just won't ever trust it, but it pains me to have whats such a good weapon collect dust because its too frustrating to use.
Here's a pic of what I have in mind, don't it look cool!?
A little while back I asked a question about why people install skeleton/delta hammers or anything aftermarket what have you...and the general consensus was pretty much because "it looks sooo cool!"
But, is it possible to fix a reliability issue? Now, I don't mean something like light strikes, but loading and ejection issues.
here's the story:
I have a Jericho RS .45acp. For the life of me I could not get this gun to run reliably, I experienced failure to load (bullet would get stuck in the hood of the barrel), Failure to eject (casing would jam between ejection port and hood of barrel) and sometimes just a flat out failure to chamber a round.
I replaced the magazine springs, the extractor, slide lock lever, and the recoil spring with a DPMS recoil spring assembly. Still not a 100% improvement. More like 75%, which it was about at before.
One thing I noticed is an uneven wear on the hammer, that is, the hunk of metal that contains the firing pin and actually interacts with the hammer to cock it, would rub more off to one side of the hammer, instead of making a flush, even contact. If I replaced the hammer with another, one that is possibly set such that the wear with the slide is an even one, could that resolve some of my reliability issues?
Honestly, I'll never carry the gun or use it for home defense, I just won't ever trust it, but it pains me to have whats such a good weapon collect dust because its too frustrating to use.
Here's a pic of what I have in mind, don't it look cool!?