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hey gang,
just wanted to relay what happened to me last monday at stan's pistol class (can't beat the experience for the money! exceptional class if you can make it).
anyways, on saturday with the rifle/carbine class, my para-ordnance p14 functioned perfectly for the side arm transition drills. went back to the pistol class and the gun had a stuck trigger. refused to drop the hammer no matter what. fortunately i found this out during the dry fire practice session in the morning before any ammo was in the gun.
i had a backup springfield 1911 in 38 super that i used for the morning class but ran out of ammo and didn't get to participate in the afternoon session. instead i took the gun to will o'hara in corona (specializes in 1911's and s&w revolvers - anything from mild to wild race gun) and he found the issue. great gun smith btw.
the plastic grips on the stock gun has a tab on the back that covers a slot in the frame. the slot was cut in the frame to allow for the double wide trigger bar to fit in. the tab is just a cosmetic cover. over the years, that tab must've gotten weak and finally broke off. it fell into the gun and got jammed between the sear and the sear spring. it prevented the beaver tail from coming in all the way and blocked the trigger from traveling far enough to engage the sear. so it was a simple fix for will to remove the broken tab and the gun is fully functional again.
i'll call para usa (new name of the company since i have the older generation gun - the original p14) to see what they have to fix this or just get the new alumagrips for the p14 line. makes ya think about plastic on a gun huh? lol
this also has me thinking about the "2 is 1, 1 is none" theory (n-1). what do you do if your primary weapon systems are down? do your backups use the same mags, ammo, gear? needless to say, i have a new purchase list to get backups for all the gear to make sure i can stay in the fight...
just wanted to relay what happened to me last monday at stan's pistol class (can't beat the experience for the money! exceptional class if you can make it).
anyways, on saturday with the rifle/carbine class, my para-ordnance p14 functioned perfectly for the side arm transition drills. went back to the pistol class and the gun had a stuck trigger. refused to drop the hammer no matter what. fortunately i found this out during the dry fire practice session in the morning before any ammo was in the gun.
i had a backup springfield 1911 in 38 super that i used for the morning class but ran out of ammo and didn't get to participate in the afternoon session. instead i took the gun to will o'hara in corona (specializes in 1911's and s&w revolvers - anything from mild to wild race gun) and he found the issue. great gun smith btw.
the plastic grips on the stock gun has a tab on the back that covers a slot in the frame. the slot was cut in the frame to allow for the double wide trigger bar to fit in. the tab is just a cosmetic cover. over the years, that tab must've gotten weak and finally broke off. it fell into the gun and got jammed between the sear and the sear spring. it prevented the beaver tail from coming in all the way and blocked the trigger from traveling far enough to engage the sear. so it was a simple fix for will to remove the broken tab and the gun is fully functional again.
i'll call para usa (new name of the company since i have the older generation gun - the original p14) to see what they have to fix this or just get the new alumagrips for the p14 line. makes ya think about plastic on a gun huh? lol
this also has me thinking about the "2 is 1, 1 is none" theory (n-1). what do you do if your primary weapon systems are down? do your backups use the same mags, ammo, gear? needless to say, i have a new purchase list to get backups for all the gear to make sure i can stay in the fight...
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