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As I've mentioned before, I had a brand new SSE brushed chrome Desert Eagle done up awhile ago via Ryan at Tablerock Arms - Stand up guy, great business, and a flawless transaction, by the way - this has nothing to do with him.
I got the gun and fired an initial 60 rounds, and found that the gun would constantly fail to feed the last round. I suspected the magazines, but continued to have the problem despite changing springs, and buying a completely brand new magazine. I finally noticed that the trigger spring that holds the slide catch had 1 leg out of the groove and that the catch had moved over enough where it could possibly be having the problem, though the gun still seemed to jam trying to feed the last round. So I decided not to tinker with a gun under warranty and sent it in. It cost ~150 bucks to ship it in its case via the local Fed Ex...
The gun returned, no parts were changed, though it looks like they ground on the extractor and ejector pin. Out to the desert I went. What do you know, the gun would eat anything I could stuff in the mag, including the 325 grain Speer ammo it used to dislike, and my 335 grain reloads that have sort of a pointy bullet that didn't used to feed well. Great! The problem was that the gun no longer flipped cases out over my right shoulder into a tidy pile... Some would go right, some would go left (WTF?), and the rest would fly over my head or hit me squarely in the face. I'll take a reliability over consistent ejection, but still unacceptable.
So I figured they went too far grinding on stuff (n00bs!), and I'll have to handle this myself. So I ordered a couple new ejectors and an extractor, and figured I'd polish the end of the eject pin and extractor until slick and shiny without grinding off significant material or changing the geometry to start, and go from there. Well, what do you know - the factory eject pins DO NOT FIT in the bolt! The bore is too tight or the pins are about 5 tenths too large since you can twist them in halfway but it's bound tightly in place.
So as you can probably imagine, I'm pretty pissed. At this point, I want a new bolt assembly that's properly in spec, not "deburred" by somebody in highschool, and an eject pin an an extractor that don't look like they've been taken to a bench grinder. If that's gunsmithing, I have a better way. The problem is that I don't want to spend another 10% of what the gun is (was) worth to mail it to them to do all over again. Do you think they'll send out a new bolt and some ejector pins? What are my options here?
I got the gun and fired an initial 60 rounds, and found that the gun would constantly fail to feed the last round. I suspected the magazines, but continued to have the problem despite changing springs, and buying a completely brand new magazine. I finally noticed that the trigger spring that holds the slide catch had 1 leg out of the groove and that the catch had moved over enough where it could possibly be having the problem, though the gun still seemed to jam trying to feed the last round. So I decided not to tinker with a gun under warranty and sent it in. It cost ~150 bucks to ship it in its case via the local Fed Ex...
The gun returned, no parts were changed, though it looks like they ground on the extractor and ejector pin. Out to the desert I went. What do you know, the gun would eat anything I could stuff in the mag, including the 325 grain Speer ammo it used to dislike, and my 335 grain reloads that have sort of a pointy bullet that didn't used to feed well. Great! The problem was that the gun no longer flipped cases out over my right shoulder into a tidy pile... Some would go right, some would go left (WTF?), and the rest would fly over my head or hit me squarely in the face. I'll take a reliability over consistent ejection, but still unacceptable.
So I figured they went too far grinding on stuff (n00bs!), and I'll have to handle this myself. So I ordered a couple new ejectors and an extractor, and figured I'd polish the end of the eject pin and extractor until slick and shiny without grinding off significant material or changing the geometry to start, and go from there. Well, what do you know - the factory eject pins DO NOT FIT in the bolt! The bore is too tight or the pins are about 5 tenths too large since you can twist them in halfway but it's bound tightly in place.
So as you can probably imagine, I'm pretty pissed. At this point, I want a new bolt assembly that's properly in spec, not "deburred" by somebody in highschool, and an eject pin an an extractor that don't look like they've been taken to a bench grinder. If that's gunsmithing, I have a better way. The problem is that I don't want to spend another 10% of what the gun is (was) worth to mail it to them to do all over again. Do you think they'll send out a new bolt and some ejector pins? What are my options here?
. Obviously I read that part of the post, as it was the part I responded to haha. He only shot 60 rounds and, as I mentioned, there are dozens of threads about broken DE's ejecting shells into peoples' faces and they ALL swear that they have full control of it but then they pay attention and find out that, in fact, it was them. However, the OP's later post made it very clear that this isn't the situation here.
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