No disassembly

onpoint

onpoint

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I can't tell you how many times I have read about somebody with near ZIPPO knowledge about any gun....disassembling it and they either can't get it back together or they flat out broke/wrecked something during their ill attempt at taking it apart. Some of these are brand new guns, stripped bolts, damaged finishes, bent parts, Etc. Then their on some gun/hunting forum looking for someone to rescue them for FREE!

This is a good piece of advise. DO NOT TRY TO DO THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF. Brand new guns, after they screw them up. They wonder if the Manufacture will Warranty their screw up. You even hear words like. They better fix it for free or this is the last _------_ gun I'll be buying from them. WTH ever

Why oh why is their so many people these days, that think they have to take a brand new gun and strip it down to nothing? It has to have $10.00 a once special lubricant on it or it will surely jam after less then a box of shells. I have Browning A5's that are 50-75 years old that have never been tore down, other then the barrel off, cleaned and the mag tube/friction breaks wiped down and lightly oiled. The guns have never failed.

Onpoint
 
Spot-on! I've had to reassemble many firearms that folks have disassembled over the years.
 
Seriously...being a girl and all if there is something I don't know or understand I take it to my local "gun smith." Dick and his wife are great people and very knowledgeable. They never laugh at me. Matter of fact they don't charge me anything because nothing is broken. What I get a kick out of is someone saying they just bought a new gun and have to keep resending it into a manufacturer because it isn't working properly and then they say it was just a freak deal (eyes rolling) yeah right not when you're the only one it's happening to; plus, I'm sure the gun companies know what's going on. I'm glad that we have great gun smiths around like the Halters. They know how to help a gal out :)
 
RoosterFetcher said:
...... yeah right not when you're the only one it's happening to....
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Had to comment on this one. This is off subject sorry.

When I saw this I started to laugh. I have taught my children one of my life lessons. It is similar to above.

If one person says I am a A**HOLE.. I consider the source and move on. If several tell me I am a A**HOLE...I need to look in the mirror to adjust what I am doing.

To many people I meet want to blame what ever happens on someone/something else.

Thanks RoosterFetcher, you made my day, glad to see some still have common sense. :thumbsup:
 
ONpoint-I agree wholeheartedly. With the exception of my Dad's Ithaca Model 37 that he reblued and built a new forearm for, none of the guns in my safe have ever been disassembled. Like you, the A5s had only the barrel removed. I've never removed a trigger assembly on anything. I shoot them and do routine cleaning-very little disassembly. Granted on a gas semi-auto like my Maxus, I must take a little more apart to clean the gas ports.

POL
 
IMO, one of the worst guns to not know what your doing with, then taking it apart anyways..is the Browning BPS. I have seen more people in trouble with this particular model then just about any other. Even after taking the gun to a gun smith. The gun smith has had trouble reassembling the gun, if he has not been familiar with the gun.

I had a friend back in high school who was willed his grandfathers 16ga model 12 pump. The gun had worked flawlessly for 50 or more years, until he got a hold of it. He just had to take it all apart and clean it. It never worked proper after he did that.

I admit many of today's auto's and pumps need to have the trigger group cleaned on a regular basis. Toaster bent steel and hair springs don't quit work like the thick all milled steel parts of yester years guns. Too many get in over their head in removing the stock and trying to removing the action spring. Many times these parts are loc-tited in and require the proper amount of heat to get the parts loose. Many do not know this and resort to extreme measures to try and get these parts loose and inevitably strip things, break things, Etc.

There are many more examples
 
Right up there with the BPS is the Remington Nylon 66. Someday, ask your gunsmith how many "bag O' guns" he has gotten in the store.

In the interest of complete disclosure, this is a lesson I have learned the hard way--not on the '66, but there was this rescue auto 20...think it was a Ward's gun. Frustrated me beyond my capabilities to swear at it.

Part of my learning curve.
 
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