Recent content by wing35

Thanks BlackHawk. I welcome all feedback and suggestions. I called Ruger today to ask them about the stovepipes and they said 2 failures to eject in 200 rounds was acceptable. I also asked if the following was normal: - With the mag out of the gun, when I pull back the slide to eject the bullet...

Thanks for the reply Blackhawk. While limp wristing is a possibility since I don't get out to shoot that much, I don't think that was the issue. If anything, I think I grip the pistol too tightly at times. I've been taught and have always used a high solid two handed combat grip. I'm wondering...

I bought a brand new Ruger American Compact Pistol in 9mm and after cleaning and lubing it took it to the range. After almost 200 rounds, I got a failure to fire. Nothing looked wrong at first and I pulled back the slide to look and didn't see a problem, so I dropped the mag, reinserted it and...

I did see something silver and metal behind the bolt that seemed to be blocking it. Not sure if it helped but I inserted an empty magazine and then pulled the charger handle enough that it moved the silver metal piece which must have been the trigger cocking mechanism because it appeared to cock...

Yes, that's how I knew what to do to disassemble and reassemble, but I did something wrong and now it is no longer cocked and in safety, and I get get it to rack so that it will be cocked, so don't know what to do.

I disassembled my Mini 14 and cleaned it but now I've screwed up reassembly and not sure what to do. I put the barrel and bolt assembly back together and snapped into the stock. Then I put trigger mechanism back in and tried to rack the bolt back to lock in place and it wouldn't budge. Knowing...

Went to range today and mini 14 was shooting mostly fine but had several incidents where a casing didn't eject and caused the next round to jam behind the un-ejected casing. Does this sound like a problem with the mini 14 ejector or something else. Was using American Eagle and PMC .223 ammo.