Jackson Arms gunsmith experience

[randy]

It would have been nice if he told you what he did to fix it or have given you the option.

I've had that same problem fixed the same way on some guns and it lasted the lifetime of the gun. Ugly, and cheap but effective.

[dfletcher]

Exactly what is that stuff, how is it held on?

As an aside, how is it the GS of the OM was not working? Was it factory or an add on?

[Hova]

Personally I would never let anyone at JA touch the insides of ANY of my guns. That said, their "gunsmith" installed trijicons on a glock of mine and they turned out ok. I do enjoy shooting there though...

[jimmyjam]

History of the gun:

I bought it from an older fella who told me about the grip safety not working. No surprises there.

The gun looks pretty stock. I had it down to individual parts, and everything looks factory. I didn't disassemble the slide tho, so who knows.

Yet again, let me say that I enjoy shooting at jackson arms - however, this trigger "fix" doesn't appear to be professional. What's weird is that he ground a divot into my trigger on the wrong side - probably a prep for welding it.

He charged me 40 bucks to fix it. I would have gladlly paid an extra 20 for another trigger.

[kf6tac]

History of the gun:

I bought it from an older fella who told me about the grip safety not working. No surprises there.

The gun looks pretty stock. I had it down to individual parts, and everything looks factory. I didn't disassemble the slide tho, so who knows.

Yet again, let me say that I enjoy shooting at jackson arms - however, this trigger "fix" doesn't appear to be professional. What's weird is that he ground a divot into my trigger on the wrong side - probably a prep for welding it.

He charged me 40 bucks to fix it. I would have gladlly paid an extra 20 for another trigger.

As much as I love shooting at Jackson Arms (I'm a member there), a lot of their improvised fixes look less than professional. Lately they've had plastic coat hangers with binder clips on them standing in for legit target hangers (presumably because people have shot up the actual target hangers to the point that they had to be removed and repaired). And the whole binder-clip-and-zip-tie setup they had was never really the greatest.

[sker13]

It would have been nice if he told you what he did to fix it or have given you the option.

I've had that same problem fixed the same way on some guns and it lasted the lifetime of the gun. Ugly, and cheap but effective.

Exactly! I wouldn't call MIG welding, when done properly, Hack job. He definitely needs a little practice and could have made it look a lot nicer but a MIG weld should be as strong as the original part. For forty bucks I could have made the repair almost disappear. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a hack job!

[jchen76@gmail.com]

If have to do it a second time, head to Frank at tabor shooters in San Bruno. It takes more time, but he does great work!

[jimmyjam]

Yes. I don't think that welding would have been necessarily a hack job, but the way he didn't doesn't scream refinement.

And I would have appreciated being told exactly what he did - if he was going to do that to the trigger anyways, I probably would have asked him to drop in a nice match trigger.

[Wafflestomper]

Ugh. I've always hated Jackson Arms. The staff is incompetent and their firearms are poorly maintained.