Arrrgggghhhhh! I must be death to range rentals,this is the third gun that has needed to be replaced, after I put my hands on it, and it's starting to give me a complex!
I went to the range today and shot an S&W 22A 22LR 7, at least I'm pretty sure this is what it was.
Anyway what happened after about 30 rounds it would sorta jam, but closing the slide, it would fire just fine, for about 4 rounds and jam/hang again. Only once or twice do a round eject when I pulled the slide back to check. At about round 50, it started hanging on every other round that got fired, but removing the magazine and re-racking the slide, seemed to clear the problem. I found out when I turned the gun in, that the metal lower part of frame had cracked on both sides. The guy at the sign in desk, said it wasn't that old of a range gun so it was odd that it had a crack in it.
Glad it didn't cause an even bigger problem, but they will be replacing the gun. I had used this very gun a few days before, and it ran through 200 rounds flawlessly. So I have no idea if it cracked before or after I started using it today.
What sort of stress, would cause the frame to crack under the pistol grips, just behind the trigger? I know I didn't drop it while using it. Or was this just a weak spot on this particular gun?
Da Bear (breaker of guns, spawn of Hades)
I went to the range today and shot an S&W 22A 22LR 7, at least I'm pretty sure this is what it was.
Anyway what happened after about 30 rounds it would sorta jam, but closing the slide, it would fire just fine, for about 4 rounds and jam/hang again. Only once or twice do a round eject when I pulled the slide back to check. At about round 50, it started hanging on every other round that got fired, but removing the magazine and re-racking the slide, seemed to clear the problem. I found out when I turned the gun in, that the metal lower part of frame had cracked on both sides. The guy at the sign in desk, said it wasn't that old of a range gun so it was odd that it had a crack in it.
Glad it didn't cause an even bigger problem, but they will be replacing the gun. I had used this very gun a few days before, and it ran through 200 rounds flawlessly. So I have no idea if it cracked before or after I started using it today.
What sort of stress, would cause the frame to crack under the pistol grips, just behind the trigger? I know I didn't drop it while using it. Or was this just a weak spot on this particular gun?
Da Bear (breaker of guns, spawn of Hades)
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