Just wanted to throw this out there to show the brand name fanboys that no firearm manufacturer is infallible.
Buddy at work bought a new Geissele super dooty (lol) and after adding bells and whistles and admiring it from afar and showing off his $2000 rifle for months on end, finally decided to go shoot it. Never fired a round. It wouldn’t fire…said it would only leave light strikes or no mark at all on the primer.
He was so butthurt. It clean knocked the wind out of him. He confided in me last week. He asked me to take a look before he went through all the trouble and risk of sending it back so of course I did. I was not impressed.
So, fast forward to yesterday, put it on the bench and stripped it down. Set the lower on a vise block to have a look at the fire control group. I do like Geissele triggers. This one had plenty of hammer spring. I doubted that was the problem. Ok, on to the firing pin. Pulled the retainer pin and the firing pin wouldn’t drop free. Tapped the carrier on the bench, still stuck in there? Hmmm…
If I had to guess, I’d say they must pack their carriers in aluminum shavings and just neglected to blow this one out before assembly. It was chock full of shards and apparently a few were wedged in there between the firing pin and the inner wall of the carrier. You see something new every day I reckon.
Anyway, blew it out with the air hose and oiled it up. Dumped the trigger group to make sure no shavings had migrated there. (Btw, the pics don’t show anywhere near the volume of shavings I removed) Blew out the gas system and reassembled the rifle. Stepped out the back of the shop for a quick Magdump… all good.
I want to assure you guys, I’m not knocking Geissele at all. Nor would I say anything negative about Colt, BCM, Daniel Defense, yada yada, you get the picture. I’m just pointing out that any of them can have problems and just because you’re buying a major brand name doesn’t make it immune.
Buddy at work bought a new Geissele super dooty (lol) and after adding bells and whistles and admiring it from afar and showing off his $2000 rifle for months on end, finally decided to go shoot it. Never fired a round. It wouldn’t fire…said it would only leave light strikes or no mark at all on the primer.
He was so butthurt. It clean knocked the wind out of him. He confided in me last week. He asked me to take a look before he went through all the trouble and risk of sending it back so of course I did. I was not impressed.
So, fast forward to yesterday, put it on the bench and stripped it down. Set the lower on a vise block to have a look at the fire control group. I do like Geissele triggers. This one had plenty of hammer spring. I doubted that was the problem. Ok, on to the firing pin. Pulled the retainer pin and the firing pin wouldn’t drop free. Tapped the carrier on the bench, still stuck in there? Hmmm…
If I had to guess, I’d say they must pack their carriers in aluminum shavings and just neglected to blow this one out before assembly. It was chock full of shards and apparently a few were wedged in there between the firing pin and the inner wall of the carrier. You see something new every day I reckon.
Anyway, blew it out with the air hose and oiled it up. Dumped the trigger group to make sure no shavings had migrated there. (Btw, the pics don’t show anywhere near the volume of shavings I removed) Blew out the gas system and reassembled the rifle. Stepped out the back of the shop for a quick Magdump… all good.
I want to assure you guys, I’m not knocking Geissele at all. Nor would I say anything negative about Colt, BCM, Daniel Defense, yada yada, you get the picture. I’m just pointing out that any of them can have problems and just because you’re buying a major brand name doesn’t make it immune.
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