Hello all, I recently inherited a p220 that was my uncle's and was wondering what I should possibly replace for maintenance.
The recoil spring was worn out, so I was getting a failure to eject on the first round of each mag. At first I thought it was the internal extractor, but someone told me to try replacing the recoil spring and when I did, it fixed the problem.
I do not know the round count on the gun, I am guesstimating it would be around at least 5 to 6000 rounds if the recoil spring is worn out? Or can that happen from age?
I looked up the maintenance schedule and it said replace roll pins and recoil spring at 5000 rounds, so I replaced both. The old roll pins seemed fine. I had heard that they would be pretty worn and sometimes nearly sheered in half at 5-6000 rounds? (This is why I was wondering if maybe the round count was actually lower than 5000 and the recoil spring just wore with age?) Or maybe it only gets worn like that if it was dry fired a lot without a snap.
The gun shoots fine now, but just wondering if there are any other parts I should replace if I want it to be my home defense gun?
The recoil spring was worn out, so I was getting a failure to eject on the first round of each mag. At first I thought it was the internal extractor, but someone told me to try replacing the recoil spring and when I did, it fixed the problem.
I do not know the round count on the gun, I am guesstimating it would be around at least 5 to 6000 rounds if the recoil spring is worn out? Or can that happen from age?
I looked up the maintenance schedule and it said replace roll pins and recoil spring at 5000 rounds, so I replaced both. The old roll pins seemed fine. I had heard that they would be pretty worn and sometimes nearly sheered in half at 5-6000 rounds? (This is why I was wondering if maybe the round count was actually lower than 5000 and the recoil spring just wore with age?) Or maybe it only gets worn like that if it was dry fired a lot without a snap.
The gun shoots fine now, but just wondering if there are any other parts I should replace if I want it to be my home defense gun?