Originally Posted by
bear13
Most can rack the slide to the rear. Flip the gun over and manually rotate the striker with a little pressure. Which in turn creates a failure to return to battery. Simply put this should be a mostly sealed channel or at least have a channel for the lug to ride in. The Omaha gun failed. Everyone blamed the finish. But this has happened more then once. Maybe they caused the failure to come into play sooner by detail stripping the gun and putting it back together. Another person reported failures also after taking the gun apart. Both seem very fluent in gunsmithing so you would figure it may be a issue with the removal and replacement process. Sometimes with plastic parts they do not come apart and go back together like machined or even mim stuff.
My pistol has not been torn down past a basic field strip for cleaning, and it has the issue. I can lock the slide to the rear, and then use my finger to rotate the striker to the left causing it to strike the back of the lower receiver when the slide is released. When the pistol is clean the striker will re-center itself by simply racking it, but if it's dirty - say after shooting a few hundred rounds - it may take several attempts of racking the slide before it re-centers.
A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Bookmarks