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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:36:10 PM EDT
| Accidently hit the trigger with the upper removed & hammer struck bolt catch, but not the receiver itself. No visible damage but hear it causes stress fractures in the bolt catch. Should I go ahead and replace it or are they tough enough to withstand a couple whacks? How about the bolt catch pin or hammer? It is a RRA LPK if it matters. |
And the second AR I ever saw was the bottom half of a Colt SP1, sitting at a dealer's repair table, with the front wall of the slot for the bolt holdopen broken out. Kept me from buying an AR15 for 4 or 5 years, and made me paranoid enough that anytime I'm fixing to open an AR, I cock it and apply the safety before doing anything else 
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wouldnt it be better to just not cock the hammer? that is what i do |
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When I was younger (year and years ago) I pushed boots for a cycle or two... we were told to tell them to never frop the hammer on a bare lower as it could crack the hammer or bolt catch. I never believed it, but then one day, as I was talking... "YOUR LITTLE BOOGER PICKERS HAD BETTER BE OUTSIDE OF THE TRIGGER GUARD AT THIS POINT, IF YOU DO DROP THE HAMM..." SNAP!... a little piece of metal goes sliding across the floor... But, that is the only one out of hundreds and hundreds of times that I ever saw anything break. Now the cool story was in Infantry trainin, A&D of the M2... "ONCE YOU HAVE REMOVED THE REAR PLATE, REACH INSIDE AND SECURE THE RECOIL SPRING -- DO NOT LET THE SPRING SLIP OUT AND DO NOT LOOK IN THE BACK OF THE MACHINE...." SPROING!.... this time is was a teenage kid writhing on the floor holding his face. Guess y'all better call what you call one of them ambalances? |
Wellk, I'll tell ya. Don't know about anyone else, but any time I'me inside of an AR, whether it's cleaning, insprcting, disassembling, whatever, sooner or later I always seem to need the hammer back for one reason or another. If it's already back w/the safety on, I don't have to fiddle w/it, cock it w/my thumb and risk having it slip out, or whatever. Obviously it's a question of whatever works best for the individual; anything to avoid hearing that steel to steel sound of the hammer hitting the holdopen.
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My bolt catch gets pretty beat up from stopping the bolt, I've had to tweak it back to square once. I noticed something was wrong when the bolt stop was extremely hard to operate, or inoperable. I think I will upgrade to the stainless steel internals at some point. |
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