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Say guys. Don't post here often, too busy at a couple of other Forums but I had a fellow BG owner PM the other day regarding problems with his pistol, specifically light strikes. His original pistol went back to S&W three times for repair. No joy. So they sent him a new BG, same problem. Now he has purchased a third and again no joy. Light strikes. He has put in the Galloway products...again no luck. So, he was looking at my posts here and there and PM'd me for help. As it happens I have a BG and while I only have 700 rounds of various ammo through it I've not encountered one problem.....although, and let me make this clear...I rarely leave any pistol alone. I have to take them apart to check out the fire control linkage, see how they work, make sure everything is smooth, etc.
I recently sold a 373 series LCP that I fired over 4,000 times with stock parts. Not one failure ever, not one misfire, jam or take down pin ejection. But, I always find it a bit irritating when I have a question and some guy comes on saying, you're limp wristing, etc. No I'm not, your pistol might be running 100% but mine isn't.
So, I'm not one of those. I'm the P22 bible author and active in regards to several pistols.
Back to the fellow shooter with problems. We began with the barrel, slide and progressed through the fire control components. We haven't solved it yet but I haven't given up. Odd that he is having the same problem with three BGs.
The point of this thread is that I have a BG that is working fine and have been sending very good pictures to the other owner with micrometer measurements of many of the parts of the pistol in an effort to resolve this. I also have contacts at S&W and will be questioning them. First I wanted to know if anyone here was interested in this type of information? I will say that I asked for spare parts for my pistol and tried to lower the trigger pull to match the LCP. I bought a new LCP when I sold my 373 series. The new LPC had a trigger pull of 7.5 lbs as I recall, my old one with 4,000+ rounds had dropped to 6.5 lbs but was still reliable. Bought both pistols the same day, same price with an extra mag thrown in .... $300 ea. Sister grabbed my LPC though before I even had a chance to fire it, said she needed practice and that is the last I've seen of that one.
The only experiment with the new BG was to flat grind the mainspring a bit at a time, install, use Lyman Digital trigger pull until I reached 7.5 lbs. Oops, should have been testing as I dropped pull. 7.5 lbs will fire about 70% of the rounds tried. Others require a second hammer drop and some four or five drops to fire the round. Original spring back in and back to 100%.
I will be glad to add pictures, micro measurements, etc. so some of you can compare your pistol's components to one that so far is 100% reliable. Perhaps we can get to the bottom of this. M1911
I try to make sure my pictures are well lighted and in focus.
I recently sold a 373 series LCP that I fired over 4,000 times with stock parts. Not one failure ever, not one misfire, jam or take down pin ejection. But, I always find it a bit irritating when I have a question and some guy comes on saying, you're limp wristing, etc. No I'm not, your pistol might be running 100% but mine isn't.
So, I'm not one of those. I'm the P22 bible author and active in regards to several pistols.Back to the fellow shooter with problems. We began with the barrel, slide and progressed through the fire control components. We haven't solved it yet but I haven't given up. Odd that he is having the same problem with three BGs.
The point of this thread is that I have a BG that is working fine and have been sending very good pictures to the other owner with micrometer measurements of many of the parts of the pistol in an effort to resolve this. I also have contacts at S&W and will be questioning them. First I wanted to know if anyone here was interested in this type of information? I will say that I asked for spare parts for my pistol and tried to lower the trigger pull to match the LCP. I bought a new LCP when I sold my 373 series. The new LPC had a trigger pull of 7.5 lbs as I recall, my old one with 4,000+ rounds had dropped to 6.5 lbs but was still reliable. Bought both pistols the same day, same price with an extra mag thrown in .... $300 ea. Sister grabbed my LPC though before I even had a chance to fire it, said she needed practice and that is the last I've seen of that one.
The only experiment with the new BG was to flat grind the mainspring a bit at a time, install, use Lyman Digital trigger pull until I reached 7.5 lbs. Oops, should have been testing as I dropped pull. 7.5 lbs will fire about 70% of the rounds tried. Others require a second hammer drop and some four or five drops to fire the round. Original spring back in and back to 100%.
I will be glad to add pictures, micro measurements, etc. so some of you can compare your pistol's components to one that so far is 100% reliable. Perhaps we can get to the bottom of this. M1911
I try to make sure my pictures are well lighted and in focus.
