I've heard and read about Numrich and Brownells, and I recall the Gun Parts Corp of West Hurley, NY (which I think is now owned by Brownell's?)
Anyhow, I'm a LONG way from a gunsmith, but smart enough to know that I'm not. But I've got one "can't miss easy fix" and I've got one basket case that I have nothing to lose by trying...
But I need some help finding the parts.
First is the EASY FIX: I was looking at the magazine that came with my buddy's HK USP .45 full size and wondering how they limited the capacity (he bought it during the hi-cap ban) I was NOT altering or nor intending to. He was looking at it also and saw a couple of tabs and elected to snap them off... and those tabs are the fat plastic tabs that hold the magazine base plate on the mag... The mag is worthless without the base plate. It's all plastic, this piece. A new magazine is like $50 or so.
How can I get this simple piece of plastic to make this magazine useful again?
Next is a Taurus PT-22 that my bro-in-law kicked toward me because he's frustrated with it's inability to feed more than one round in a row. I tried a half dozen different brands of ammo and I can't do much better. Brought it home from the range and pulled the left grip panel off and it's quite obviously working on only HALF of the slide return spring power as the left side "finger" is snapped off near the top. A new piece won't make this a fine, exquisite piece, but it MIGHT make the damn thing an actual semi-auto instead of a manually operated repeater.
I checked both Brownell's and Numrich. Brownell's either doesn't carry any HK and Taurus parts, or I can't find them. Numrich shows the piece I need for the Taurus in a schematic, but lists it as out of stock. The only schematic I could find for the HK mag base plate was NOT the correct one I'm looking for.
Anyone know where to find these parts or where to look?
Sorry for the length of my post and thanks for any help you can give me.
Anyhow, I'm a LONG way from a gunsmith, but smart enough to know that I'm not. But I've got one "can't miss easy fix" and I've got one basket case that I have nothing to lose by trying...
But I need some help finding the parts.
First is the EASY FIX: I was looking at the magazine that came with my buddy's HK USP .45 full size and wondering how they limited the capacity (he bought it during the hi-cap ban) I was NOT altering or nor intending to. He was looking at it also and saw a couple of tabs and elected to snap them off... and those tabs are the fat plastic tabs that hold the magazine base plate on the mag... The mag is worthless without the base plate. It's all plastic, this piece. A new magazine is like $50 or so.
How can I get this simple piece of plastic to make this magazine useful again?
Next is a Taurus PT-22 that my bro-in-law kicked toward me because he's frustrated with it's inability to feed more than one round in a row. I tried a half dozen different brands of ammo and I can't do much better. Brought it home from the range and pulled the left grip panel off and it's quite obviously working on only HALF of the slide return spring power as the left side "finger" is snapped off near the top. A new piece won't make this a fine, exquisite piece, but it MIGHT make the damn thing an actual semi-auto instead of a manually operated repeater.
I checked both Brownell's and Numrich. Brownell's either doesn't carry any HK and Taurus parts, or I can't find them. Numrich shows the piece I need for the Taurus in a schematic, but lists it as out of stock. The only schematic I could find for the HK mag base plate was NOT the correct one I'm looking for.
Anyone know where to find these parts or where to look?
Sorry for the length of my post and thanks for any help you can give me.
