ar15man2009
New member
Hello,
I was recently giving my 11-87 a good cleaning and ran into some trouble. I got it completely disassembled and made the stupid mistake of stepping away from my bench with it left apart. By the time I returned one of my friends had apparently decided it would be a good idea to dry fire the bare trigger group. I walked back into the room a second too late just as the hammer dropped and I was lucky enough to watch my carrier latch break off and fly across the room.
So now that the deed has been done I'm left to replace the broken carrier latch. I am wondering if it is a simple job that I can do on my own by buying the piece back from remington ($3.80, I already checked), and put it in myself, or if this is too big a job to do on my own, in which case it'll be off to the gunsmith.
I would really prefer to do it on my own if i can. There's not really a good quality gunsmith close so if i can keep from having to take it to one it would be great. I have quite a bit of experience with guns and the way that they work but I have heard that the 11-87 trigger groups can be tricky. It looks like an easy fix to me, but I would rather know before I mess something up even worse.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
I was recently giving my 11-87 a good cleaning and ran into some trouble. I got it completely disassembled and made the stupid mistake of stepping away from my bench with it left apart. By the time I returned one of my friends had apparently decided it would be a good idea to dry fire the bare trigger group. I walked back into the room a second too late just as the hammer dropped and I was lucky enough to watch my carrier latch break off and fly across the room.
So now that the deed has been done I'm left to replace the broken carrier latch. I am wondering if it is a simple job that I can do on my own by buying the piece back from remington ($3.80, I already checked), and put it in myself, or if this is too big a job to do on my own, in which case it'll be off to the gunsmith.
I would really prefer to do it on my own if i can. There's not really a good quality gunsmith close so if i can keep from having to take it to one it would be great. I have quite a bit of experience with guns and the way that they work but I have heard that the 11-87 trigger groups can be tricky. It looks like an easy fix to me, but I would rather know before I mess something up even worse.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks