What Have You Broken?

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grip screw '53 colt match target,,,

and i recently launched the detent ball from a ruger mk II mainspring assembly off into parts unknown

NEVER take one of those apart :what:
 
Nothing yet! :D

But I did bust up a brand-spankin new Wilson 47D mag. My 1911 had a really nasty FTE and somehow jammed the empty casing back under the feed lips. It was a heck of a time removing it and in the process I bent one of the lips out.

:banghead:
 
The MIM BUSHMASTER slide release button broke on me once. I called Bushmasters, and they mailed new part immediately, no questions asked. It was kind difficult to reinstall that tiny roll pin though.
I gave 1/4 inch crack inside the cylinder chamber on Colt Diamond back by using Corbon .38 +P. I know it was over pressured round for my good ol gal, but come on! I only shot a single round through it. Make me think twice about Corbon bullets.
Broke plastic adj. rear sight on Rossi .357 revolver. Never bothered to replace it, then I gave it to a friend (he doesn't know how to shoot anyway).
 
The little plastic recoil buffer in my Star PD. Carved another one out of a nylon gear from an old GM wiper motor. Had a horrible time getting the guide rod apart-no flats or hexes to grab it by to unscrew it. Improvised brass jaws for vise and pliers. Have the factory part now, but don't want to go through that again.
 
I hate to admit it, but I've bunged up a few screw heads, too, before I learned about proper gunsmithing screwdrivers.
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Ditto! Sometimes, I'm my firearm's worst enemy. Overcoming the urge to use whatever tools and parts are available and just waiting until the proper equipment can be acquired is one of my greatest failings. Oddly enough, my local gunsmith doesn't seem to mind my misadventures too much. :)
 
Lets see...

Broken a couple of Scopes, (Weaver and Redfield).

Dented a recoil spring guide on a custom 1911 (just say no to Pro-load unless you have stiff springs), replaced with GI part. Getting hammer follow-down on that same model now, wonder if the pro load stuff did more damage, or ?? It's a shame, it's a custom Franken pistol and well.. i just don't really trust it as much anymore.

Wore out a recoil buffer inside a Marlin 995 (but I think my cleaning slovent may have attributed to it cracking) Marlin replaced the part for free, gunsmith had it back in 30 minutes. Shot the barrel pin loose on same marlin, again fixed before ileft the range and NO Charge :D

Shot a number of scope mounts loose, buggered up screw heads (now have set of brass drivers).

Dad broke a thimble screw on my hawken that took two screw drivers and a trip to the smith to fix. He then proceeded to do the same to the set screw for the nipple.:rolleyes: So the hawken was in the shop twice in a month for man made disasters.

Sent numerous springs and pins flying. Replaced as needed.

Fixed a Colt 1908 vest pocket model (thanks to Numrich Gun Parts Corp.)
 
Taurus PT-58S - the sear which pushed up on the firing pin block broke. Taurus replaced it under the lifetime warranty.

Colt AR-15 - Partly mangled a firing-pin retaining pin during cleaning. A couple minutes with a Leatherman sorted it out until I got a replacement.

Ruger Mark II - The first time I took it apart, I thought I'd broken it. However, after working on it for another hour or two, I just found out that when brand new, it's a bear to reassemble. It's much better now.
 
So far, the only thing that I've broken, and I can't really lay claim to it, is the elevation screw on my Novak Adj rear sight. Buggered up the blueing trying to get the sight off so I could finish the competition and promptly mailed the top half back the smith who built her. I like the sight, but they really need a beefier elevating screw.

Other than that, nothing. I guess I'm not active enough; by the looks of it, some of you guys are having grand adventures.
 
Well....I have broken both a 3-wood and a sand wedge. They both deserved it after all, because it certainly wasn't my golf swing.

L&S scope, which they replaced for free

weaver scope mount.

No actual gun parts though.....knock on wood
 
I broke the extractor on my FEG Hi-Power clone. I blame it on 500 rounds of Wolf ammo. Some of those cases got stuck so bad I had to use a dowel and POUND them out. The extractor would disengage from a stuck case, then slam forward against it. Gotta be hard on the extractor.

That was 2 yrs ago. No breaks since then.
 
Taurus Pt-140 : The slide-stop pin sheared right off!

Two different SA Ultra Compact V-10s : Both of them rounded off the slide-stop notches within 100 rounds or so.


I see a pattern of being rough on my slide-stops?? I just don't want to stop shooting when I get started.


Lexter in NC
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That depends ...

... on your definition of "Broken." I wasn't paying attention and managed to let the yoke screw on my Taurus 617S work loose and disappear. I called them, they nicely mailed me a new one. After it arrived I found the original.
 
The takedown lever on my G29 disintegrated a while back. The busted parts of it were bashed into the frame by the reciprocating slide.

Thing kept shooting even with no lever and the parts floating around in the gun. :)

- Gabe
 
Ya'll don't shoot enough.....

Ok,
This is a good thread......now I'm not counting springs. I have NO IDEA how many springs I have needed to replace. But real PARTS that I have BROKEN and WORN OUT.....we'll start with pistols...

Springfield Armory alloy compart frame on my Wilson Stealth cracked in 3 places after a "few" thousand rounds. Wilson replaced the frame with one of theirs for free:cool:

I can think of 3 1911 extractors I have broken the hook off of. All in .45 ACP, none in 10mm.

I wore out 3 Titanium 1911 hammers before I got wise and went back to steel hammers.

I broke 1 1911 ejector in a race gun.

I broke a Gold Cup rear site off a Gold Cup.

I didn't break the frame, but I shot a steel PARA ORD frame enough that the pin holes "walloed out" and the hammer and sear wouldn't funtion properly[read that intermitent full auto]. I had to replace pins with oversize pins. Again, a race gun with high round count.

Twice, I have had the factory rear site on Glocks become accidently dislodged......bioth times I didn't know that it was gone until I presented the pistol to fire it......very discerning:fire:

Rifles....

I shot out a Winchester Pre-64 30/06 barrel......it took awhile, but I finished her off :rolleyes: I mean completely shot it out, it wouldn[t group in 6-8 " @ 100 yards. Gunsmith confirmed it had 2 many rounds through it....ahhhh the joys of my younger days.

I have bent, stepped on, crushed, and generally made unusable several M1 carbine mags.

I have bent, stepped on, crushed, and generally made unusable several AR15 mags.

I somehow screwed up the plastic trigger guard on my old Rem 600. I think it was a combination of excessive heat and bug spray[Deer hunting early season in S.C.-August], it somehow got mushy and warped.

I broke a JP SAURER Drilling stock after half falling out of a tree......on top if the Drilling. I broke both of my arms at the same time.....

:rolleyes:

I destroyed[though hard use] a Bell and Carlson CARBALITE aftermarket stock. POS:barf:

I broke an issue M1 Carbine stock in half at the pistol grip.


Shotguns.....

I had a Remington 870 firing pin snap in half.

I broke a Remington 870 wooden buttstock.

On a Remington 11-87, I broke soooo many rubber O rings and piston rings, I was buying them a dozen at a time.

On a BROWNING 325 12ga Target Over and Under, I broke the Buttstock, and had to replace the locking bolt 3[!] times in just 8 months of competitive shooting. Not good.

On a BERETTA 390 12ga target shotgun I have broken....

1 buttstock
1 hammer
5 hammer braces
4 bolt connecting rods
1 bolt locking lug
2 shell lifters
3 trigger assembly retaining pins.

This gun has close to over 150,000 rounds through it....not a bad service record.

On a BERETTA DT10 12ga Target Over and Under. This gun has just over 140,000 rounds through it. In the action, I have replaced the cocking rods, hinge pins, and the locking bar. In the trigger group I had to replace 1 sear spring, but we aren't counting springs , remember;) This gun has held up amazingly well.


Some of these parts broke due to my misuse, but most due to wear and bad design. If you hunt enough, you'll drop a gun. If you shoot a competion gun enough, you will find its weak parts. If you shoot a rifle enough, you will wear the barrel out.......

But if you pay attention during all of this, you might learn a bit about shooting along the way;)
 
I got my first gun when I was seven. Turned 57 this year. I've gone thru at LEAST 400 guns in between and have over 50 at present. In that 50 years, I have NEVER had a part break or fall off of a single gun. Some have just flat WORN out, but that isn't breakage.
Heck, the gun I still shoot the most is a 1954 Colt .38 Super and it still has all the original parts it came with when new. And it went thru a Mexican national owner and Federale confiscation before I got it 23 years ago. (It had really, really ugly silver and Mother of Pearl grips with swastikas and mexican eagles on it. They are not on now but I still have them)
I wonder if this no breakage syndrome is because I have only had about 5 factory new guns in my life?
I did, however, really shatter a glass topped coffee table the first time I ever took down a Hi-Power. Launched the slide nearly to the ceiling and down to a center hit on the glass top.
 
Well, when it comes to my guns I have not broken a blessed thing! As for other areas of my life.......I guess I'm a bull in a china shop!:uhoh:
 
Shoot more

Skunk,
In the early days, I bought primers 5000 @ a time. Now they just bring loaded ammo by the pallet load:p

Remember, to truly achieve nirvana, you must you must break into the realm of OPA...[Other People's Ammo].:cool:
 
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