what guns parts do you keep on hand?

[Commader47]

I probably bring way more than I need. BUT, having said that, I've almost always needed to use some of it for something.

AR's.
Everything. I have a complete tool box and spare parts box with everything to repair/rebuild the AR I bring. I have had the weirdest things happen.

Usually, I just bring two complete rifles. I only had one rifle ever mess up on me though. A long range rifle started to short stroke and it was due to a partially crushed gas tube. Go figure. I still haven't been able to figure out how that happened.

1911's
I have a small tool box with a load of spare 1911 parts. I rarely need to use it.

M1 Garands
Springs.

I don't bring anything else for any other weapons.

I always bring lots of mags, cleaning supplies, basic tools, my laser bore site, range scope. etc.

 

[AK103K]

I have a little different outlook on things. I have duplicate guns for any guns I intend to use, and for a lot I dont. On the odd occasion, something should break, I just swap out one gun for another.

That way I dont skip a beat and can deal with the breakdown at my leisure.

Since most of my main use handguns these days are Glocks, I keep spares of the RSA's on hand and a couple of trigger return springs.

The RSA's are normal wear parts and swapped out a couple of times a year on the guns I shoot regularly. The trigger springs are the only other minor parts Ive had to deal with, but with the first waiting until 90K to decide to go, I dont think its really something to worry about too much.

I had a bunch of SIG's for a while there, and was always told I had to have a couple of different springs on hand as they were sure to break, but I never encountered that. Still have a couple, both picked up used. The one obviously has a lot of rounds through it, so I changed up the recoil spring on that, and did the same on the other, even though it didnt appear to have been shot much. RSA's a re cheap insurance. Still haven't had to deal with anything else though.

I shoot a lot of different guns each month and dryfire them and a bunch of others, all the time (I usually dry fire a number of guns every day). The only other part breakages I can think of that jump out at me, are a gas ring on a heavily shot AR I have, and the firing pin on a heavily shot and dry fired M1A I used to use in competition.

Id be willing to bet for most people, the cost of ammo getting to the point of actually breaking something due to wear will likely be a bigger factor. The number of new guns you could have bought for ammo spent to get there, will amaze you.

 

[DustyGmt]

One thing I don't have that I should have, that I guess was overlooked by me, is (I'm my case is for glock cuz it's what I carry) spare mag release button or two. I haven't ever had to replace one, but if you're a high volume shooter eventually you'll need to. I'm at like the medium low end in terms of volume. But if you typically buy more than a few cases a year its a good thing to have.

 

[WrongHanded]

Honestly, other than recoil springs for semi-auto pistols and spare magazines for all guns that have detachable mags, I don't keep much in the way of spare parts.

What I prefer, is to try an eliminate the weak points I am aware of. My Glocks don't use the trigger return S-springs, as I've swapped them out for the NY-1 and a lighter connector. I prefer to have back up irons to any optic on a rifle where possible. And I prefer manual actions to semi-auto for long arms, for the sake of simplicity.

And yes, spare firearms is a good idea also.

 

[MrBitey]

Since the Sig P320 is modular I've ended up with lots of spare parts. I started out buying a couple of grip modules to experiment with size, shape. Then bought a threaded barrel to get ready for a silencer. Then bought an optics-ready slide and red dot. Then a new trigger. Etc. Just need a second fire control unit and I'll have a complete spare.

 

[DustyGmt]

Oh yeah another good company to buy springs from is Sprinco. I bought an extra pack of extractor springs from them and I have sprinco buffer springs in each AR and apparently it's the only spring you'll ever need but you'll have your stock springs as spares if you should ever need, which you probably wont....

 

[Meeks36]

Spare parts is like ammo. In my book you can never have to much.