Posted: 2/4/2006 10:45:37 PM EDT
| After around 1000 rounds or more of flawless firing in my Custom TLE/RL II, I had several rounds fail to fire today. The primers were dented, but not as much as they should be. Does the mainspring need replacing? |
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Absolutely not, if it's the factory mainspring. Unless you or someone else cut the mainspring, and I mean by more than a couple coils, it's not that. The mainspring is designed to last many tens of thousands of rounds, and is quite a bit more powerful than it needs to be. Anyway, you might have issues with your firing pin safety. I would recommend going to a knowledgable smith, or calling Kimber. Of course, it could always be ammo related too. I just had two misfires in a row on a reliable gun where the hammer dropped all the way. It was a Springfield with no mechanical issues or a firing pin safety. Neither primer had an indentation, and the gun was in perfect mechanical shape. I had the same happen with a Glock during a class. Of about 500 rounds fired, I probably had 70 failure to fires. It was all bad primers in brand new LE Federal ammo. |
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