Hello All,
New to the forum (although I monitored it for some time now as a visitor). Just got a new mini-14 (tactical' yes it sounds "rediculus" but ...
. Brought it home, loaded the magezine and racked several times the slide to the locked position (magazine empty). Two days later picked it up to clean for the range. And, what a surprise! On the slide assembly was a patch of blueing missing (I see the unprocessed metal underneath).
The bluing is missing at the curved area of the slide assembly exactly in front of the "channel opening" of the handguard assembly (when the slide is locked back). It is as wide as the slide and then becomes narrower. It seems that this was the result of direct contact o the slide to the handguard assembly channel.
- firearm is with its original preserving lub
- unfired
Is this a "common" occurance?
Would it mean that the cotnact of slide to hanguard is out of spec 9with obvious consequences to the operation of the rifle?)
what so I do? Is it a warranty issue?
On another note:
if it goes back to Ruger, will they aagree to fit a couple fo extra firing pins, OR even bold+firing pins? I see there is a lot of discussion on the forum on this issue, so i was wondering if there is any advise on how to ask/deal with Ruger for doing this
Thank you!!!!
Nick
New to the forum (although I monitored it for some time now as a visitor). Just got a new mini-14 (tactical' yes it sounds "rediculus" but ...
The bluing is missing at the curved area of the slide assembly exactly in front of the "channel opening" of the handguard assembly (when the slide is locked back). It is as wide as the slide and then becomes narrower. It seems that this was the result of direct contact o the slide to the handguard assembly channel.
- firearm is with its original preserving lub
- unfired
Is this a "common" occurance?
Would it mean that the cotnact of slide to hanguard is out of spec 9with obvious consequences to the operation of the rifle?)
what so I do? Is it a warranty issue?
On another note:
if it goes back to Ruger, will they aagree to fit a couple fo extra firing pins, OR even bold+firing pins? I see there is a lot of discussion on the forum on this issue, so i was wondering if there is any advise on how to ask/deal with Ruger for doing this
Thank you!!!!
Nick