I recently accompanied a few friends to the local indoor gun range to both act as instructor and watch the guys shoot! One guy purchased a used but rather decent condition small 380acp pistol from a friend several months ago, its a walther PPKS
he took it out to the range to try it out for the first time ans out of 50 shots in a box of ammo it jammed/failed to feed about 9 times, so without doing any, inspection,of the ammo, magazine or firearm, hes thinking of trading it in for peanuts, that the gun store offered him on a trade-in deal.
I told him I'd gladly find the cash value the gunshop offered, if he was really willing to trade in the pistol at the suggested price simply because having owned a walther PPKS in the past I'm 100% sure that a good cleaning, different ammo or a new magazine , will totally resolve the issue if after a close detailed inspection , I find no broken internal springs, and from what I saw in a very brief inspection the problem is simply the previous owner has not regularly de-gunked the pistol.
and like any precision tool, if you don,t regularly clean and lubricate it or allow it to collect gobs of pocket litter embedded in old semi dried grease it won,t function to its design potential.
http://www.carlwalther.com/views/evppk.htm
http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/FIREARMS/walther_ppk_ppks.pdf
a quart of hoppes #9 a tooth brush and a bore brush can do wonders for reliable function.
trading in a quality pistol that has seen little maintenance if it starts to malfunction, without first deep cleaning it and doing a careful inspection and testing ammo and magazines
is a bit like trading in a new corvette if the gas gauge reads empty or the check oil light comes on
he took it out to the range to try it out for the first time ans out of 50 shots in a box of ammo it jammed/failed to feed about 9 times, so without doing any, inspection,of the ammo, magazine or firearm, hes thinking of trading it in for peanuts, that the gun store offered him on a trade-in deal.
I told him I'd gladly find the cash value the gunshop offered, if he was really willing to trade in the pistol at the suggested price simply because having owned a walther PPKS in the past I'm 100% sure that a good cleaning, different ammo or a new magazine , will totally resolve the issue if after a close detailed inspection , I find no broken internal springs, and from what I saw in a very brief inspection the problem is simply the previous owner has not regularly de-gunked the pistol.
and like any precision tool, if you don,t regularly clean and lubricate it or allow it to collect gobs of pocket litter embedded in old semi dried grease it won,t function to its design potential.
http://www.carlwalther.com/views/evppk.htm
http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/FIREARMS/walther_ppk_ppks.pdf
a quart of hoppes #9 a tooth brush and a bore brush can do wonders for reliable function.
trading in a quality pistol that has seen little maintenance if it starts to malfunction, without first deep cleaning it and doing a careful inspection and testing ammo and magazines
is a bit like trading in a new corvette if the gas gauge reads empty or the check oil light comes on
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