Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to adopt an older brother to the twins and brought home a slightly older but still 2d gen P3AT. I took the young man out to the home range today. PO (a great KTOGer by the way) had reported about 100 trouble free rounds. Building on that I put another 100 or so through it. The results:
1 - WOW did I forget how much different it is to shoot a P3AT without the www.aglaser.com pads and cover. It was painful after the 100 rounds. With the twins I can go 300-400 without concern.
2 - Working hard at making it fail - I succeeded a few times. It took one handed and a very loose grip. After about 70 rounds it started to have some FTEjects (2 or 3). This barrel was NOT polished in any way and was very dirty. Since I did not take a cleaning kit out there with me I grabbed the first thing at hand cleaned up the barrel only with some WD40 and my sweatshirt sleeve. No failures to eject after that.
3 - The last 6 magazines provided something I had never seen in any ofmy our (sorry wifey) P3ATs - I had light strikes. They were generally around the 3rd, 4th, or 5th round. Now to be fair I should say that the gun was very dry and, oh ya, I was trying to fire all 6 rounds as fast as possible. The primer showed a very slight dent just barely off center. I pulled out the light strike rounds and set them aside. After all my other rounds were shot I loaded the last magazine with these 4 or 5 light strikes and fired them one by one and all fired and sounded and felt normal. My guess is that I was short stroking and failing to reset the trigger completely.
4 - I think this baby might be starting to peen. (It is a J5***) It also has a tapered guide rod that the others do not. It does not look like it is very thin. Since I have put washers in the others and they are doing just fine I may just continue to shoot this one and see if it gets any worse and then send back as/if necessary. It may just be initial rubbing around the guide rod hole and it may not get any worse but I will watch it. I am hoping that this doesn't prove to be an issue because I really wanted to send this one to CCR for a gold pimp job.
I think after some polishing/sanding of the guide rod and mirroring the barrel this baby boy will be a keeper.
-Scott
PS - The first 50 were Remington UMC Green/White box and the last 50 were AE.
1 - WOW did I forget how much different it is to shoot a P3AT without the www.aglaser.com pads and cover. It was painful after the 100 rounds. With the twins I can go 300-400 without concern.
2 - Working hard at making it fail - I succeeded a few times. It took one handed and a very loose grip. After about 70 rounds it started to have some FTEjects (2 or 3). This barrel was NOT polished in any way and was very dirty. Since I did not take a cleaning kit out there with me I grabbed the first thing at hand cleaned up the barrel only with some WD40 and my sweatshirt sleeve. No failures to eject after that.
3 - The last 6 magazines provided something I had never seen in any of
4 - I think this baby might be starting to peen. (It is a J5***) It also has a tapered guide rod that the others do not. It does not look like it is very thin. Since I have put washers in the others and they are doing just fine I may just continue to shoot this one and see if it gets any worse and then send back as/if necessary. It may just be initial rubbing around the guide rod hole and it may not get any worse but I will watch it. I am hoping that this doesn't prove to be an issue because I really wanted to send this one to CCR for a gold pimp job.
I think after some polishing/sanding of the guide rod and mirroring the barrel this baby boy will be a keeper.
-Scott
PS - The first 50 were Remington UMC Green/White box and the last 50 were AE.
