Posted: 9/22/2011 9:49:13 AM EDT
Front of the pistol grip on my Sub 2000 is cracked/separated. There are no screws to hold the front together. It just looks like the two halves were glued or welded together but ended up splitting. Is this normal? I want to shoot this thing, not wait for Kel Tec to fix it. Is it safe to shoot? Is there a home fix I can do?
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Front of the pistol grip on my Sub 2000 is cracked/separated. There are no screws to hold the front together. It just looks like the two halves were glued or welded together but ended up splitting. Is this normal? I want to shoot this thing, not wait for Kel Tec to fix it. Is it safe to shoot? Is there a home fix I can do? http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2470/img00166201109221044.jpg From what I've seen it's not completely uncommon in the SUB 2000's. In most cases, it's cosmetic, and several folks on KTOG said their main complaint was that the split would gather up a little skin and pinch their hand or fingers under recoil. Since the SUB is a pure blowback weapon that relies on bolt-mass and to a much lesser degree, and tension in the recoil spring, there really isn't much stress on the polymer parts in the receiver/grip area. So I would say it's safe to shoot, just a cosmetic/ergonomic PITA. I'd call Keltec and see what they have to say. Otherwise, I know lots of SUB owners put those Houge Hand-all type slip on rubber grips over the pistol grip to hold it together and keep the split from pinching them. (ETA, beat by 00:51sec by ropie as I typed this...) Is the grip separation some sort of "feature" or somehow Ideal? No. However, Keltec had an all metal version of the Sub2000 first, CNC'd out of two halves of billet aluminum called the Sub9 (which is what I own), but at the $400-500 price-point they just didn't sell as well. Just Keltec giving the market what it wanted. 
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