Yeah I’ll give it a detail scrub this weekend but it just feels different than previous grimy-shutdowns with other guns. Subjective and the LCR is different engineering, I know.Originally Posted by SCCY Marshal
Hopefully it’ll turn out better than the scolding Ruger gave me after repairing my SP101: “no high round count classes for you!”
Wait… can you flesh this one out a bit more?
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Check out Ruger LCR? (Post 802) for an issue I didn't even know existed with the LCR22.
Nothing too dramatic and I think I just caught the guy on the phone before his first cup of coffee.
About 70ish rounds into a class, trigger felt really sloggy with some crunchy feedback. Broken hammer strut and cracked the recoil plate pin and there was mention of a poorly machined recoil plate.
So not “high round count” by any means, plus I was shooting 158gr .38s. I had bought it lightly used so I suspect the base issues were congenital.
The whole process was simple and pain free, however.
Thank you. I do that every month or so since I do dry fire quite a bit.
Follow up time.
Didn’t do a full take-apart due to time, place, and tools, but gave it a good cleaning. Messing around afterwards, I noticed the gun functioned as designed if it was held upside down or pointed straight up.
Or so I thought. Because after cycling a few times I went to open the cylinder and it was struggling. Then I noticed the firing pin was still “out” and appeared a little more “out” than usual. So pushed the cylinder back in the millimeter or so required. Held it upside down and, while the cycle of operations seemed good, the firing pin never articulated. Holding the LCR as normal, the original issue still presented itself.
So I think a cup of coffee and a call to Ruger is in order.
Tried shooting my 617 the other morning and couldn't get it to fire. The cylinder wouldn't turn for some reason so checked everything out that I could. The last thing I thought about was a broken firing pin. It's happened before. No luck. That would have been an easy fix because I learned my lesson and always keep an extra in my bag.
This time I'm stumped. It's very difficult to close the cylinder and if I do get it to close it locks up when firing to the point that the hammer will only go back about an eighth of an inch and no matter how hard I pull the trigger nothing moves.
I finally called Smith & Wesson and was told to send it back in. It's got a lifetime warranty. The customer service rep was nice enough to send me a FedEx label so I printed it up, boxed up the gun and had them come to my door to pick it up. Easiest transfer I've ever had to do.
It's Christmas time so I expect it to be delayed, they close the factory for a week.
Do they have gas rings? Sounds similar to the issue I had with my m19.
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