Well, back to business. You all know that I am having issues with my Buck Mark. Well, here's an update I posted in rimfirecentral's Browning forum:
"Update: Well, I (meaning my friend!) took this thing apart at the range on Friday and before popping it open, I tried my buddies' Buck Mark mags (no issues in his pistol) and sure enough they BOTh popped out on the 8th and 9th rounds! Very discouraging but at least I eliminated the mag and the shooter as potential issues.
After the shooting session, we popped it open and nothing seemed worn but the magazine latch spring seemed to be "out-of-place". Not much time to carefully go over everything so we put it back together and I went home. Since nothing flew-out when we popped it open, I pulled off the grip again myself last night to have another look. Seems like you were right, part_time. The latch spring was not seated in its little recessed cut-out. I went ahead and seated it correctly (bending it toward to magazine latch). The latch spring itself was bent in a couple areas along the end of it (again seemed alright but could be bent too much??). I put it back together and will test it out on Wednesday to see if this fixed it and report back."
Well, thanks for your help, Dave. I am hoping that this latch spring fix will solve my problems. We'll find out in a couple days, I guess.
Speaking of Wednesday, I just received my Steyr gear so if you don't know me, look out for the fellow wearing a blue Steyrtalk.com ball cap with a big set of red & yellow trapazoidal sights upfront! Ahh, I love being gaudy!
