Have you ever had a gun break at the range?

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Sig p938- launched recoil assembly down range with the 124 gr fmj.

Loc tite on threads (wish they were one piece forged), good to go. But had to find it, had to fix at home and gun down. Sig sent another for free as well.

Colt 1911 series 70- old school, collet bushing. Broke extractor, didn't have another on hand



All I can think of offhand but give me time
 
Relatively new double barrel 12 gauge jammed up. Trip to the gunsmith. He found a metal chip left from machining that found its way into the gears.

Had a primer go off but the powder didn’t ignite. Primer drove the bullet about six inches up the rifle barrel. Didn’t have a cleaning rod with me to clear it.
 
Dan Wesson 357 that lost the little piece pressed into the frame that keeps the cylinder on the arbor when opened.

Had a 45ACP AR build that sounded like it fired one shot, but two pieces of brass would hit the ground. Fixed quickly before I had an out of battery experience.

Dry-balled a muzzleloader a time or two. Got too chatty while reloading.
 
NuclearMeltdown said:
How'd you fix this one?
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Drove home with the barrel pointing at a cinder block in the trunk. Once there, I put the muzzle in a bucket of sand and was able to get the action out of the stock, lower the striker and remove the bolt. The shoulder of the bolt sleeve had rounded off, allowing it to over-rotate. I cleaned it up with a file and its been fine ever since.:)
 
Back in '81 I bought a NIB .45 Colt 4-3/4" SAA from San Fransisco Gun Shop. (fancy that...)

The first time out with it back home, the main spring snapped in two.

Colt fixed it free, paid for the trip back to Hartford both ways, too.

Conelrad
 
First handgun I ever bought, a Rossi M-69 (I think, it's been almost 40 years) .38 Spl.
Every round the cylinder would jump out of battery, so pulling the immovable trigger had no effect.
Slap the cylinder back into battery and it would fire one more round, repeat.

Second rifle I ever bought, a Colt AR15 (again, in 1984 or so).
First time I took it to the range, doubled occasionally. I wasn't quite sure what I had just experienced, but I knew it wasn't right.

And so on...quite a few others, over the years.
 
Yes, but just a small spot weld.

Importer TGI put their typically smaller-than-required weld on the required muzzle device, which is screwed onto the threads of FEG AMD-65s to comply with the 16" barrel regulation.

Luckily I knew that this could easily happen (watched it happen to a buddy's FEG AMD). And I knew the cost of the repair.
Therefore I factored in the Very high (local) gun smith charge for a pro. repair of the weld -- before trading for this otherwise extremely reliable rifle.
 
One more that I forgot to mention in my original post. While shooting my Ruger Redhawk 44 Mag the firing pin became stuck in the forward position jammed into the spent primer, which completely locked up the action! The tapered shaft of the pin had wedged itself into the firing pin hole of the frame. I had to unscrew the pin from the back, and taper the firing pin hole slightly to prevent that from happening again. My guess is it was the result of too much dry firing peening the hole.
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Also, I have had less critical parts break off my guns in the past, but unless it actually stopped the gun from firing (safely) I didn't include it. For example, multiple times the head of my Ruger LCP takedown pin has sheared off... but that didn't end the range session.
 
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The two that I remember...

Was going through an LE marksman/observer course in 2003 and had the extractor break on my issued Rem. 700P. It was out of town, so I had to drive back home several hours overnight and pick up my personal 700 to finish the week.

Bought a new Beretta Tomcat .32 when they first came out...first time at the range, the firing pin retainer pin broke causing the now unretained firing pin to nail me in the forehead.
 
I had a S&W Model 10, just bind up on me. It still would fire, but I called it a day, this was a few years ago, as something was just wrong with it, and I did not know if it was in the timing or what was going on. After messing with it on a bench for really quite a long time and several times. I had put a ding on the rights side of the frame, right where the little oval is there that lines up to the cylinder as it goes around. It was grabbing the cartrdiges as the cylinder would rotate around. My guess is when I took it out of the safe that day, I opened the cylinder to clear it, and just bumped the right side against the safe without noticing and it put a little ding in it. Seems like nothing now, but at the time I was really bothered having a revolver seem to just die while I was firing it. Filed that down, quick touch up with cold blue, never an issue again.
 
A Dan Wesson 15-2 has halted two range sessions I can think of. One(pictured) was when the cylinder stop (which was pressed in) popped out and luckily landed on top of my right hand. Red locktite has held it for the past three years. Another trip the cylinder wouldn't release due to a screw in the latch moving deeper into the latch mechanism and locking the cylinder shut. The trigger over travel screw needed blue locktite to hold it where it belongs but not a show stopper. A few other minor issues have caused me to become IMG_2137 (2).JPG very familiar with the internals of this revolver which isn't really a bad thing.
 
stonebuster said:
A Dan Wesson 15-2 has halted two range sessions I can think of. One(pictured) was when the cylinder stop (which was pressed in) popped out and luckily landed on top of my right hand. Red locktite has held it for the past three years. Another trip the cylinder wouldn't release due to a screw in the latch moving deeper into the latch mechanism and locking the cylinder shut. The trigger over travel screw needed blue locktite to hold it where it belongs but not a show stopper. A few other minor issues have caused me to becomeView attachment 1058285 very familiar with the internals of this revolver which isn't really a bad thing.
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Exactly what happened to mine. Lost in the deep grass at the range. Wish I still had that revolver. Most accurate handgun I ever owned.
 
One time I was really enjoying some plinking with a friends pump .22,,,
I have no idea what brand it was.

I shot a round,,,
Pulled back on the slide,,,
And the rifle "disintegrated" in my hands.

Honestly, it was like out of a Warner Brothers cartoon,,,
It just came apart in about 4-5 different pieces.

He picked up the pieces and stashed them in a bread bag,,,
I wonder if he ever got it put back together?

Aarond

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I'm on my third set of adjustable sights on my Kimber Super Match, according to their customer service that's considered normal wear. Second sight fell apart after about 1k rounds.
The ejector snapped off on my new 10mm target II and the initial supplied magazines were horrible had to buy some Colt mags and another delightful encounter with Kimbers customer service.
Needless to say no longer a customer. :(
 
I was at the range shooting my Super Black Hawk .44 mag and went to empty the cyl. and everything was gone. Rod housing, screw, Rod and spring. Looking around I found everything on the ground in the sand. A range friend has a cleaning kit along and after a few minutes the gun was back together, No harm, No foul., Moral of the story, ck your gun screws once in a while
 
Had the trigger safety break on my XDs45. Gun still shot, but I wasn't about to shoot a broken gun.

Shoot any gun long enough and it breaks.
 
I had a Mini-14 ranch rifle that would rattle the rear sight right off the receiver almost every range trip.

Another time the floor plate welds on an el cheapo 1911 magazine failed and dumped the spring, follower, and six rounds on the ground after one shot.

I had a Beretta Neos fire out of battery and blasted the half the extractor to who knows where. The other half remained in the slide and occasionally functioned as a second, fixed firing pin. A Neos will burp out 10 rounds of .22 LR in half a blink of an eye. The cyclic rate was very impressive.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
Had a Universal M1 Carbine (commercial made M1 Carbine copy receiver using a mix of copy and GI parts) throw the extractor claw across the range once. (That gun is gone.) Had a USGI Garand break a trigger pin. That's about all.
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Same thing happened twice on my Universal .30 carbine…. sold mine after the second time!

I stopped shooting a muzzle loader when the groups got really erratic and started grouping like a scatter gun - found a 6 inch long hairline crack starting at the breech plug!
 
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Just one comes to mind. Brand New Taurus TCP sheared an extractor on the first shot!

They sent a replacement quickly but it never did work as well as the first TCP I had.
 
Broke a M249 firing pin at a range in-theater. Happened about 20 rounds into the range visit, after having been carried unfired on a number of convoys. This being the sole carried weapon, it negatively affected confidence in the weapon.
 
1) Star BM firing pin 40ish rounds in.
2) SKS firing pin tip snapped off.
3) M1 Garand hammer tail broke off and burped off 3 rounds.
4) Rem 700 243 bolt handle snapped off. (Friends rifle at the range)
5) Israeli 7.62 nato rifle had a separated case. Blew extractor into the the unknown. Blew my hat off. Rifle was repairable.
 
Only once, broke a firing pin on my 627-5. Replaced it myself instead of sending it back to S&W
 
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