URGENT NOTICE RE: ATI Fat Boy .45acp !!!
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 9:02 pm
URGENT NOTICE / WARNING !!
I feel like a real idiot having to do this just one day after posting about it being my new CCW, BUT
At the range today, about 30 rounds into firing with factory ammo....
IT LITERALLY CAME APART IN MY HAND !!
it is a design flaw using too small or brittle a screw to secure the recoil spring/barrel guide to the internal guide plunger.
The screw-head broke off at the end of the guide plunger and the plunger flew out of the front end of the slide, and evidently flipped on exit as it struck me in the forehead and I had to turn and search BEHIND myself to find it !!
This left the pistol locked up, 1/4 inch short of "battery position", with a live round inside the chamber.
I was able to "wiggle and work" the slide back far enough to disassemble the pistol and dump the live round......but hopelessly bending the plunger spring in the process.
This pistol goes back to the retailer in the morning, and i'll walk out with a "standard" 1911 design with external barrel bushing etc....or i'll go back to wheelguns.
my cheap a** Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Spl Snubbie has been faithful thru hundreds of rounds w/o issue, and i'll always have it as my "low volume life saver".
Then, this entire post will be copied and pasted into the "Review" section......before these pistols injure somebody or worse.
I'm glad my LIFE didn't depend on that round stuck "almost" in battery !!!
I feel like a real idiot having to do this just one day after posting about it being my new CCW, BUT
At the range today, about 30 rounds into firing with factory ammo....
IT LITERALLY CAME APART IN MY HAND !!
it is a design flaw using too small or brittle a screw to secure the recoil spring/barrel guide to the internal guide plunger.
The screw-head broke off at the end of the guide plunger and the plunger flew out of the front end of the slide, and evidently flipped on exit as it struck me in the forehead and I had to turn and search BEHIND myself to find it !!
This left the pistol locked up, 1/4 inch short of "battery position", with a live round inside the chamber.
I was able to "wiggle and work" the slide back far enough to disassemble the pistol and dump the live round......but hopelessly bending the plunger spring in the process.
This pistol goes back to the retailer in the morning, and i'll walk out with a "standard" 1911 design with external barrel bushing etc....or i'll go back to wheelguns.
my cheap a** Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Spl Snubbie has been faithful thru hundreds of rounds w/o issue, and i'll always have it as my "low volume life saver".
Then, this entire post will be copied and pasted into the "Review" section......before these pistols injure somebody or worse.
I'm glad my LIFE didn't depend on that round stuck "almost" in battery !!!