HK's broken-down

Sorry to hear about your misfortune 'Kota, but enough about you, back to Tamara :D

That HAS to be a pic from a magazine. NO WAY life is so cruel that there exists a single woman who loves FIREARMS (can't tell you how many other words for "firearm" I typed first but had to change because of some of you guys...) is also good with 'puters, AND looks like THAT in a Bikini? NOPE! Didn't happen!

Sure, my wife's a li'l hottie, and carries, but she doesn't TALK about guns, and she thinks I'm insanely obsessed with them. She only has ONE for cryin out loud!!!

If that is indeed TFL's famous Tamara...

":eek:We're not worthy! We're not worthy!:eek:"

Again, sorry you broke your thingie...
 
-Yo-,

"The back half of the pin ejected from the gun and hit me in the face. The front half of the pin jammed between slide and frame, bending the frame and taking a chunk out of the polymer."

How your broken firing pin managed to do that on an USP? Sorry but this sounds like BS to me - unless you managed to break the firing pin into at least 3 pieces and the snapped off firing pin tip jammed bw slide and frame. Please explain...
 
Gunhead,

Although I don't like to call new posters out, I'm with you. How do you bend a polymer frame? I can see them flexing, but bending?

On the cracked slide, which part of the slide exactly cracked?

Shake
 
Shake,

That was Gunhead quoting -Yo-'s post. You're calling out the wrong poster...

Although the mishap does, indeed, sound a little contrived as described.:confused:


p.s.

gregc,

Thanks for providing the link to that previous thread. Got a chuckle from Will Beararms' post:

I know the feeling when one puts out serious cash on a weapon only to find out that they could have bought an American-made product for half the price that would still be shooting.

...I bought a Sig P239 .40 when they first came out that was junk.
Click to expand...

I almost don't have the heart to tell our buddy Will that his P-239 was imported all the way from Exeter, NH and is every bit as American-made as the Rugers he seems to favor now... ;)
 
Tamara ,

Sorry for the confusion, If you'll go back and re-read my post, I'm actually agreeing with Gunhead. When I said "I'm with you. . " I meant I'm with Gunhead.

Guess I should have read my post a little more closely before committing.

:)

Shake
 
Our PD has had trouble with the USP fullsize 45s being very sensitive to ANY dirt in the firing pin channel causing misfires. Interestingly, there has been no trouble with the compact guns. We have had to tear down the full size guns with only about 1000 rounds through them, and with the roll pins etc. that HK says need to be replaced every time, this is a PITA... My experience with HK DISservice is bad also, mainly perceived arrogance with a few exceptions. Parts delivery takes forever and we waited for some G36K rifles to be delivered, over 9 months, and they were semi auto only trigger groups. If your name isn't DELTA FORCE or VERY BIG PD SWAT they do not want to address your presence it seems. I have had good luck with Benelli though with service and parts.
 
Seadog,

Your PD must be using some really dirty stuff. :p

I never removed the roll pins to clean the firing pin channel on my USP9F and 40F and never had light primer strikes - not even today practicing for the weekend match...I shoot factory FMJ ammo only, 9000+ rounds total.
 
Details

Don't like being called a liar. Here are the details. Remember the firing pin broke as a round was discharged and the slide was recoiling. The HK firing pin has a concave section where the lock pin mates to it. It broke at this section of reduced diameter. The pin broke as the slide was recoiling. When the slide reach rear-most recoil, with hammer back, the rear half of the pin kept moving, ejecting out of the gun and hit me in the forehead. No damage to me other than being surprised as heck.

The forward half of the firing pin, again moving rearward with recoil, jammed between the interior of the slide (where the metal runs over the hammer) and the right rear of the frame. This caused the frame to bulge (from left to right, about 1cm). The forward section of the firing pin also knocked out a piece of the polymer about 1cm x 2cm from the back of the frame, just above and to the right of the hammer cutout, looking forward.

No, this wouldn't have happened during dry firing, but it was the force of the slide in recoil and the momentum of the firing pin that did the damage.

If you doubt what I'm saying, contact HK service. They replaced the entire gun for me because they don't ship frames separately.

Yo
 
Cracked slide on .40c

Looking rearward, from muzzle to breachface, the .40c had the following damage. The breachface was cratered, and there was a small region on the right side of the breach that had been chipped away. This would be on the "wing" right of the breach, that locks up with the barrel hood. The missing chip was about 2mm on a side, triangular, at height of firing pin hole. On the same side of the slide (right looking rearward from muzzle), there was a hairline crack running about 1.5 cm along the side of the slide opposite from the extraction cut-out.

HK replaced slide and barrel under warranty.

I now may have the only HK .40c with no serial number on my slide. Does that make it worth more or less?

Yo
 
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Out of battery?

Re the damaged HK USP 40c, since I never fired reloads in the gun, the damage it incurred is a little puzzling. It may be poor heat-treating as HK smith devined. (This was source of most of HK firing pin problems). However, there is also the possibility that damage occurred because gun was able to fire slightly out of battery. I do a lot of rapid fire, so this is possible. I can't really speculate... but the cratering on breachface was consistent with out of battery ignition. The chamber erosion leaves me baffled.

Yo
 
You mean your replacement pistol has no SN on the slide ???

THAT sounds very strange indeed. You sure about that ?

With that said, may I suggest that you rethink comments like the following before you post them ??

"Conclusion... HK USP is a good commando wannabe gun, but it isn't field proven like Glock or 226."

...Does that mean you bought your USP because you're a commando wannabe, or did you mean something else ?:D
 
USP-9...

...has been adopted by the Bundeswehr as the P-8. Rumor has it that the various state police forces in Germany will follow suit by adopting USP-9c.
 
I bet that the Bundeswehr won't have a hard time getting replacement pts if they need them....

I live fire & dry fire my HK's ALOT.....
Mechanical things will break......
(any links for quick HK pistole pts??).




Yo, pretty boy,
being a Mall Ninja sounds pretty exciting......hehe



Lets not digress from the original topic here,
Tamara in a Bikini..
er, I mean< HK broken dwn >...

whatever.....
 
DAKODAKID,

I've never dealt with them, but located Brayley Ballistics on the net.

Maybe those of you who have had your H&Ks break and have dealt with them can let us know how they are to deal with??

Brayley Ballistics

Shake
 
Thanks Shake,
I already have a call to Nigel....

Any other sources???

Nigel @ Brayley has supplied me with alot of HK pts with a very fast turn-around time..
 
WOW! Isn't the HK Mk23 like $2200!!!! :eek: I thought that gun was unbeakable. How accuate is it when it functions properly BTW?

Tamara, That face looks familiar.... Oh well.. Must be me...
 
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