tacticalreload
Bearcat
So I got back from the range and was cleaning my gun. When I went to put the slide back on, it wouldn't go. Upon closer examination, I determined that the triangular tab on the takedown lever broke off. The purpose of this tab is to engage the takedown bar and therefore disengage the sear... which is the reason why you don't have to pull the trigger when field stripping the pistol. If the sear isn't disengaged, it won't drop down. In this condition, the sear contacts the rear of the slide, and it won't reassemble.
If something similar has happened to your pistol, as an FYI, it's possible to manually free up the sear by pulling the trigger and pushing forward on the left-hand metal tab (as viewed from above) all the way in the back of the frame. To know that you're dealing with the right piece, be aware that the mirror-image tab on the right-hand side moves when you pull the trigger. This would also work if your slide in on and won't come off.
No biggie... stuff happens. Here's the seriously annoying part. When I called Ruger, they flat out refuse to send me a replacement lever. They won't send it under warranty nor will they allow me to even buy one. I am REQUIRED to ship the gun to them. (The FedEx center is nearly an hour and half round trip from me.) The part would literally take longer to remove from the packaging than it would for me to install it. However, they said that it's a "newly released" gun so they want it back to investigate the failure. Yeah, that's all well and good; but I don't want to be a beta-tester... I just want to get my pistol running again.
Of course, he also told me that even if this wasn't a newly released gun, this type of part is likely considered to be something that they wouldn't just send out since it might not be consider "user serviceable". I'm a little confused about this. They have sent warranty parts to me in the past that are far less user friendly (extractors and such). I wonder what the point of this whole pistol modularity thing is with the RAP. They don't have replacement frames in different sizes like the P320 (the RAPc has a differently sized internal unit), and they clearly don't want end users to take them out... even in the case of a simple fix. I guess it's only modular for use by certified armorers or for manufacturing purposes. I feel it's like I'm shipping my sneakers back to the manufacturer because one of the laces broke, and they insist they replace it themselves.
Oh well, so it looks like I'm without my gun for 2 or 3 weeks.
If something similar has happened to your pistol, as an FYI, it's possible to manually free up the sear by pulling the trigger and pushing forward on the left-hand metal tab (as viewed from above) all the way in the back of the frame. To know that you're dealing with the right piece, be aware that the mirror-image tab on the right-hand side moves when you pull the trigger. This would also work if your slide in on and won't come off.
No biggie... stuff happens. Here's the seriously annoying part. When I called Ruger, they flat out refuse to send me a replacement lever. They won't send it under warranty nor will they allow me to even buy one. I am REQUIRED to ship the gun to them. (The FedEx center is nearly an hour and half round trip from me.) The part would literally take longer to remove from the packaging than it would for me to install it. However, they said that it's a "newly released" gun so they want it back to investigate the failure. Yeah, that's all well and good; but I don't want to be a beta-tester... I just want to get my pistol running again.
Of course, he also told me that even if this wasn't a newly released gun, this type of part is likely considered to be something that they wouldn't just send out since it might not be consider "user serviceable". I'm a little confused about this. They have sent warranty parts to me in the past that are far less user friendly (extractors and such). I wonder what the point of this whole pistol modularity thing is with the RAP. They don't have replacement frames in different sizes like the P320 (the RAPc has a differently sized internal unit), and they clearly don't want end users to take them out... even in the case of a simple fix. I guess it's only modular for use by certified armorers or for manufacturing purposes. I feel it's like I'm shipping my sneakers back to the manufacturer because one of the laces broke, and they insist they replace it themselves.
Oh well, so it looks like I'm without my gun for 2 or 3 weeks.