Last gun show a month ago, I thought I had found a good deal on a mini 14 ranch rifle. $389 preban a couple 40 rounders.
The seller had been there for every gunshow for the last 3 years and I had almost bought from him a couple times.
This mini 14 had good blue, good trigger ultra shiny bore nice wood.
I asked the seller how it shot. He pulled out a target from under his table with what he said was a 100 yard group he had shot the previous day.
It looked pretty good and had .22 sized holes in it.
I paid the cash and bought some PMC ammo.
The next weekend I went to try it out.
The first round fired and the case stuck in the chamber. I mean stuck
I pulled the bolt off the stuck round and tried to get it out with a cleaning rod. No dice. Took it into the range office and the nice guy in there used a brass rod and a hammer and punded on it for 3 min until the shell came out.
The case was deeply scored and bulged out in spiral pattern.
Funny thing was I got a bullseye with that one shot.
I took the rifle home and shined a powerful halogen light into the chamber and saw that someone had taken a dremel tool and ground it out.
The gunshow vendor lied about test firing the mini 14 and knowingly dumped a ruined junker on me.
Figuring that I was SOL and would have a tough time getting my money back from the crook I called accuracy systems (they do custom mini 14 work and asked if they had any used barrels. They had me ship the rifle to them last week and they installed, indexed and test fired a replacement barrel for $125
I should be getting the mini 14 back in a couple days.
Should I take the invoice to the gunshow dealer and try to get him to pay for it? Or should I camp at his table and ruin his buisness for 8 hours on Sunday?
The seller had been there for every gunshow for the last 3 years and I had almost bought from him a couple times.
This mini 14 had good blue, good trigger ultra shiny bore nice wood.
I asked the seller how it shot. He pulled out a target from under his table with what he said was a 100 yard group he had shot the previous day.
It looked pretty good and had .22 sized holes in it.
I paid the cash and bought some PMC ammo.
The next weekend I went to try it out.
The first round fired and the case stuck in the chamber. I mean stuck
I pulled the bolt off the stuck round and tried to get it out with a cleaning rod. No dice. Took it into the range office and the nice guy in there used a brass rod and a hammer and punded on it for 3 min until the shell came out.
The case was deeply scored and bulged out in spiral pattern.
Funny thing was I got a bullseye with that one shot.
I took the rifle home and shined a powerful halogen light into the chamber and saw that someone had taken a dremel tool and ground it out.
The gunshow vendor lied about test firing the mini 14 and knowingly dumped a ruined junker on me.
Figuring that I was SOL and would have a tough time getting my money back from the crook I called accuracy systems (they do custom mini 14 work and asked if they had any used barrels. They had me ship the rifle to them last week and they installed, indexed and test fired a replacement barrel for $125
I should be getting the mini 14 back in a couple days.
Should I take the invoice to the gunshow dealer and try to get him to pay for it? Or should I camp at his table and ruin his buisness for 8 hours on Sunday?