Picked her up this morning. What. A. Beauty. And holy crap is it massive. It was actually a lot bigger than I thought (giggity...)
I had my wife hold it for scale since she’s 5 foot with tiny hands. Just hilarious.
I replaced the recoil springs and cleaned up the mags (one was rotten inside) and hit the range. To my dismay it was a single shot gun. Would not extract the cases. Then I looked at the extractor and there was ZERO tension so I knew it was the extractor spring.
Got home and realized the previous owner peened the slide against the firing pin stop which made removing the firing pin and bolt, a joy..
. Thank god I had a vise and could tap the pin stop down from the slide.
Got the bolt out and holy shit was it rotten along with the extractor and inside the slide. Oh, and the rubber extractor spring/plunger thingy was completely destroyed
At that point I replaced the firing pin spring and the extractor spring/plunger thingy. Went back to the range and it functioned just fine. Except after 10-20 rounds the gun would not lock back with an empty mag. Even just cycling the slide with a empty mag will not lock it open. So I need to play around with the mags and slide stop I guess.
And I was DETERMINED to get my primary arms red dot to fit. So I whipped out the Dremel and went full retard Bubba removing material from the underside of the red dot
It actually worked. Just need to sight it in tomorrow.
I have to admit it was fun to shoot but my reloads are HOT and I started to feel it in my hand after 40 rounds
I doubt Ill be shooting more than 50 rounds per range trip with this monster.
It will take some practice gripping it as you can’t do the high thumbs forward grip. Took some skin off my thumb in the process...