Pistol Slide Jammed Solid

UPDATE (Again): I heard back from Gravel and now that I have it unloaded they are asking me to send it to the warranty centre to be looked at (and hopefully repaired) by their gunsmith. I have been asked to provide the a copy of my sales receipt so on these next days off I'll be searching for a 15+ year old receipt. Which leads me to the question, do most people hang onto receipts for the life of their firearm?
 
DiMP said:
UPDATE (Again): I heard back from Gravel and now that I have it unloaded they are asking me to send it to the warranty centre to be looked at (and hopefully repaired) by their gunsmith. I have been asked to provide the a copy of my sales receipt so on these next days off I'll be searching for a 15+ year old receipt. Which leads me to the question, do most people hang onto receipts for the life of their firearm?
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Your sales receipt should be your registration certificate. If they want to get snarky about it they can easily follow the paper trail. Most companies are pretty good about this sort of thing.
 
tiriaq said:
If you want to try holding the slide in a vise, take the vise and pistol to the range.

You don't want to be like the President of the NFA who put a bullet through the wall into his neighbor's apartment.
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LOL, I remember that. Jim Hinter was nowhere near as smart as he though he was.




DiMP said:
The round had no marks on the primer. I did not try the plunk test and dropped the ejected round into the dud container at the range
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You absolutely should have kept the round in question. It is highly possible that it was the round that caused the issue. It'd be nice to know if it fit the chamber properly. That the primer did not get struck screams the slide did not completely close, which is most often an ammo problem. You need to NOT be so afraid of your firearm and how it functions. It's not rocket science and these things don't just go bang all on their own.

If the gun goes out for "repair" you will never know if it was the ammo or not and could easily end up in the same position because you assumed the problem was the gun.
 
I'll just mention that factory ammo isn't what it used to be and it well might have been the round that was defective, not the gun. Only direct evidence can decide of course, just a suggestion.
 
It looks like ejector tip is bent downwards more than it should be. Bring it back to original geometry and stone off the damage and test. Your firing pin may be damaged as well.
This is what it should look like:


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Minor Update:
I received yesterday a "Return Authorization" number from Gravel. Tomorrow I'll make my way to the post office to mail off the pistol for warranty service. How much shipping insurance is recommended for something literally irreplaceable? :p
 
DiMP said:
Minor Update:
I received yesterday a "Return Authorization" number from Gravel. Tomorrow I'll make my way to the post office to mail off the pistol for warranty service. How much shipping insurance is recommended for something literally irreplaceable? :p
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Well literally zero because if they lose it, you aren't getting another one. As it is impossible to buy or sell a handgun, it has no replacement value.
 
Wow no Vaseline on this post. I guess he's right since the liberals have given every firearms users that owns handguns 0 value on a full gun. Parts on the other hand is where your money is. Lost gun by the Post Office priceless best to ship it UPS at least it will arrive insure for $500.00 for parts. Hope this helps..

I Dont Care About You said:
Well literally zero because if they lose it, you aren't getting another one. As it is impossible to buy or sell a handgun, it has no replacement value.
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I Dont Care About You said:
Well literally zero because if they lose it, you aren't getting another one. As it is impossible to buy or sell a handgun, it has no replacement value.
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Doesn't mean they shouldn't get money back if they did, it not the OP fault if they lost it. If I had a classic car and it gets totaled at no fault of mine and its not replaceable. I should be like oh well and suck the loss, and not expect any money?

You really live up to your dumb usernane.
 
OkayShooter said:
Doesn't mean they shouldn't get money back if they did, it not the OP fault if they lost it. If I had a classic car and it gets totaled at no fault of mine and its not replaceable. I should be like oh well and suck the loss, and not expect any money?

You really live up to your dumb usernane.
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I was just being ironic ... but yes, I REALLY don't care about you.
 
I don't get what the deal is about the insurance. If you lose a $500 item, you still lose the value and if it can't be replaced you buy something else with the insurance settlement.
 
Not to add to your woes but I’d be more concerned about ensuring that the pistol gets to the repair facility and gets back to you and that you have indisputable proof about who has custody of it until it is back in your hands. . If it goes missing …. Well there was a gunsmith in Ontario that allegedly ‘lost custody’ of restricted firearms and was shot dead by police.
 
Just a quick update. Gravel ended up covering warranty 100% (minus my shipping costs to them). Pistol was safely returned to me last week, clean and functioning. At the end of the day, all the issues stemmed from a bent ejector. Gravel replaced the damaged part and performed some test firing, cleaned the pistol, then returned it to me. Overall I was impressed that Ruger covered all warranty expenses on a (now discontinued) pistol I bought over 15 years ago
 
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