Nightcrawler
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Ever have one of those days where you just should've stayed in bed?
I woke up, after not getting enough sleep, to go help my mom down at our farm (I help her feed the horses). I notice a small blotch on my back. Great, I think. A recurrance of the damned shingles that I had last year about this time. Is this going to be an annual friggin' event, I wonder?
*sigh*
Well, since then the blotch has disappeared, filling me with much relief. When I got the shingles last year, I noticed it early and got to the doctor, before it started to get too painful (the pain did keep me up all night once, though; it's quite unpleasant). I was mostly relieved, though, because the medication to whip the shingles costs around $300.00.
Anyway, from one thing to another. I take my CZ-97B to the range, with a hundred and fifty rounds of Fiocci .45ACP hardball.
On the 141st round, I pull the trigger. Click. I drop out the magazine, and some small part that I can't see falls with it and disappears into the grass. Examining the pistol, there's a spring sticking out of the top of the slide and another spring sticking down into the slide. The little plunger that serves as a loaded chamber indicator is gone.
I pack up, and drive home. Once home I examine the slide. I remove the little plate on which the loaded chamber indicator is located, and reassemble the pistol. I load it and cyle a few rounds; except for having a small gap, through which you can see the rim of the round when it's chambered, the pistol cycles normally (though I haven't fired it so configured). The LCI does seem to be a non-essential part.
So, hell. I've got well over 2,000 rounds through the pistol (this is my second year of owning it). I'm going to call CZ-USA on Monday (they're not open on weekends) and see what they say. I suspect I'll just have to mail them the slide and they'll fix it (just like when I mailed in the barrel for a free throat & polish job).
So, we'll see. I think perhaps they should've just left the loaded chamber indicator off, and had a solid-topped slide. I mean, I don't see the utility of it. In the morning, you pick up your pistol, chamber a round, holster it, and you assume it's loaded for the rest of the time it's in your control. If you take it off, or go to sleep, or have the pistol out of your control for any amount of time, you pull the slide back and observe the chamber when you regain control of it, re-holster it, and you're all set.
Honest, I don't see a use for the LCI. But...whatever, it's a nice pistol anyways.
Oh, yeah. I was doing awful today, shooting. I'm rusty!
I woke up, after not getting enough sleep, to go help my mom down at our farm (I help her feed the horses). I notice a small blotch on my back. Great, I think. A recurrance of the damned shingles that I had last year about this time. Is this going to be an annual friggin' event, I wonder?
*sigh*
Well, since then the blotch has disappeared, filling me with much relief. When I got the shingles last year, I noticed it early and got to the doctor, before it started to get too painful (the pain did keep me up all night once, though; it's quite unpleasant). I was mostly relieved, though, because the medication to whip the shingles costs around $300.00.
Anyway, from one thing to another. I take my CZ-97B to the range, with a hundred and fifty rounds of Fiocci .45ACP hardball.
On the 141st round, I pull the trigger. Click. I drop out the magazine, and some small part that I can't see falls with it and disappears into the grass. Examining the pistol, there's a spring sticking out of the top of the slide and another spring sticking down into the slide. The little plunger that serves as a loaded chamber indicator is gone.
I pack up, and drive home. Once home I examine the slide. I remove the little plate on which the loaded chamber indicator is located, and reassemble the pistol. I load it and cyle a few rounds; except for having a small gap, through which you can see the rim of the round when it's chambered, the pistol cycles normally (though I haven't fired it so configured). The LCI does seem to be a non-essential part.
So, hell. I've got well over 2,000 rounds through the pistol (this is my second year of owning it). I'm going to call CZ-USA on Monday (they're not open on weekends) and see what they say. I suspect I'll just have to mail them the slide and they'll fix it (just like when I mailed in the barrel for a free throat & polish job).
So, we'll see. I think perhaps they should've just left the loaded chamber indicator off, and had a solid-topped slide. I mean, I don't see the utility of it. In the morning, you pick up your pistol, chamber a round, holster it, and you assume it's loaded for the rest of the time it's in your control. If you take it off, or go to sleep, or have the pistol out of your control for any amount of time, you pull the slide back and observe the chamber when you regain control of it, re-holster it, and you're all set.
Honest, I don't see a use for the LCI. But...whatever, it's a nice pistol anyways.
Oh, yeah. I was doing awful today, shooting. I'm rusty!
As for shooting though, I did have a decent shooting day yesterday. The only problem is that I can't find anybody that lives by me that won't wuss out over mosquitos, or get tired after 45 minutes of shooting -- any excuse will do, basically. 
