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Took my SA Professional to the range this weekend, I know this gun is "hard fit" and is suppose to be a very tight fit. I cannot rack the slide by hand and have to push it with front end with my hand to "break" the lock before I can rack the slide.
What surprised me was the malfunctioning when I took it to the range. The problem got progressively worse. At first everything was fine, two magazines later, the slide refused to lock on an empty mag. This happened to both the magazines that came with the gun and a Tripp Cobra mag. 2 to 3 mags later, the gun began stove piping the last round. This keep happening until around 50 rounds. Then failure to eject combined with the hammer not dropping when I pull the trigger, or the hammer falling to half cock. This FTE and hammer not dropping or just to half cock happened consistently with every magazine I fed the gun (both OEM and Tripp) and now not only on the last round. It happened enough to have me feel that the gun was unsafe to shoot and abort the shooting session.
Is this expected for "hard fit" handguns (SACS, Les Baer,..etc). This is my first semi custom gun. I've had STI/Caspian, Para-Ord, Glock, SIGs in the past and not one malfunctioned like this.
Should I just try to shoot more rounds into the gun to "break" it in or is this NOT typical behavior for this type of gun. A bit disconcerting for a gun to behave like this when it was said to go through a "total reliability tune" per SACS.
Anyone has a similar experience?
What surprised me was the malfunctioning when I took it to the range. The problem got progressively worse. At first everything was fine, two magazines later, the slide refused to lock on an empty mag. This happened to both the magazines that came with the gun and a Tripp Cobra mag. 2 to 3 mags later, the gun began stove piping the last round. This keep happening until around 50 rounds. Then failure to eject combined with the hammer not dropping when I pull the trigger, or the hammer falling to half cock. This FTE and hammer not dropping or just to half cock happened consistently with every magazine I fed the gun (both OEM and Tripp) and now not only on the last round. It happened enough to have me feel that the gun was unsafe to shoot and abort the shooting session.
Is this expected for "hard fit" handguns (SACS, Les Baer,..etc). This is my first semi custom gun. I've had STI/Caspian, Para-Ord, Glock, SIGs in the past and not one malfunctioned like this.
Should I just try to shoot more rounds into the gun to "break" it in or is this NOT typical behavior for this type of gun. A bit disconcerting for a gun to behave like this when it was said to go through a "total reliability tune" per SACS.
Anyone has a similar experience?
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