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I occasionally see threads where people either trade off or send back for repairs a gun that is having some minor malfunction issues that would seem to be pretty easy to repair. You see people say things like "Sig polished the feed ramp and now it works fine."
That got me thinking...do most people repair small imperfections themselves or do they end the gun in for repairs or trade it off?
I myself always try to fix the gun myself first. It usually just comes down to filing off a burr, smoothing out a feed ramp, polishing a rough surface, or something like that. Only once have I had a gun that was so bad I had to send it in after being unable to rectify the situation myself.
I can understand why some people would take the stance of "this thing is new, I should not have to do a danged thing" but I cannot bring myself to not try to fix it myself.
That got me thinking...do most people repair small imperfections themselves or do they end the gun in for repairs or trade it off?
I myself always try to fix the gun myself first. It usually just comes down to filing off a burr, smoothing out a feed ramp, polishing a rough surface, or something like that. Only once have I had a gun that was so bad I had to send it in after being unable to rectify the situation myself.
I can understand why some people would take the stance of "this thing is new, I should not have to do a danged thing" but I cannot bring myself to not try to fix it myself.