So my mother in law asked me to clean her gun last week. I said I would since I like doing those kinds of things. I was also interested to see what kind of gun it was since she is not too familiar with what she has, except that it is a .25. Just a few months ago, she sold me her Colt .38 Super and S&W .44 mag so who knows what she could have.
She handed it over to me on Friday and I was a little disappointed since it is a Raven, but she absolutely adores the thing and is proud that she can just stick it in her pocket when she goes somewhere (I know, please don’t go there). As she was giving it to me, she asked that I look it over because the last time she shot it, the slide didn’t move.
So after I checked to make sure that it was unloaded, I began to disassemble it. As I was getting ready to run a swab down the barrel, I noticed something was already there. Apparently, the last shot she took was a squib! So I removed it, finished cleaning the gun and even re-finished the “genuine walnut grips” for her. When I gave it back to her, I showed her what I found and explained what a squib is and told her that if she had taken another shot, it was likely that she could have experienced, at the least, a bulged barrel. She was happy and said that it looks so much better!
Just thought I'd share.
She handed it over to me on Friday and I was a little disappointed since it is a Raven, but she absolutely adores the thing and is proud that she can just stick it in her pocket when she goes somewhere (I know, please don’t go there). As she was giving it to me, she asked that I look it over because the last time she shot it, the slide didn’t move.
So after I checked to make sure that it was unloaded, I began to disassemble it. As I was getting ready to run a swab down the barrel, I noticed something was already there. Apparently, the last shot she took was a squib! So I removed it, finished cleaning the gun and even re-finished the “genuine walnut grips” for her. When I gave it back to her, I showed her what I found and explained what a squib is and told her that if she had taken another shot, it was likely that she could have experienced, at the least, a bulged barrel. She was happy and said that it looks so much better!
Just thought I'd share.