Inspection of the fighter follows: I typed this up and sent it to the original builder.
Well I finally got to tear down the pistol today and these are some of my findings.
Bevel Job on the slide is extremely wavy. At one end there is no bevel and at the rear of the slide its huge.
Magwell blend looks like it was done with a roll disc and a dremel and there are two really wavy spots in it. I took a flat file and some ignition files and cleaned it up but it still isnt perfect.
Thumb safety primary face was filed at an angle and is giving an inconsistent feel in the locked position. It does pass both click test and functions test so no biggy.
Strut and strut pin are both horribly loose. Strut actually has lateral movement when hammer is moved.
The throat of the barrel face is not even. I am not sure if it was done from wilson combat that way or hand throated but the left side of the throat has alot of machine marks in it and isnt even.
Feed ramp was chewed up. I fed about 75rds of jhp through it to see how it fed. Most of the ftf and fte i had were with the JHP's. I personally dont feel any gun should ever have and problems feeding any kind of ammo. Especially a "custom" one.
The ejector was loose. So loose in fact that I could wiggle it side to side. I am still investigating this problem.
Sear face has alot of machine marks in it. Not sure where they came from but they are there. It also had to really large burrs on it.
Trigger did not pass the "fall out of the frame" test. I have always been tought that the trigger should be just tight enough that when you flip the frame upside down the trigger should fall out. I put some dyken blue on the trigger bow and trigger itself and there were alot of wear marks. I am not sure if this gun was bead/media blasted before it was coated but there was alot of grit and what appeared to be media in the trigger stirrup/slot area. I cleaned it up with some popsicle sticks and sandpaper and also cleaned up all the burrs on the trigger itself. It functions a million times better and hopefully will not lock itself to the rearward position ever again.
For the most part everything else looked to be in pretty good shape. I cleaned up alot of the rough surfaces and checked fit of everything else. I didnt see any file marks on the barrel to indicate it was a hard fit barrel. The headspace checked out and the barrel to slide clearance checked out as well. I am hoping there are no hiccups on the next outing. If I do continue to have problems with the gun and if it is ok i would like to send the gun back to you Mr. James and have you look over the gun since you are the original builder. I plan on doing a full media blast and coat here in the next couple of weeks if everything checks out ok and since I have already started fixing all the little imperfections in the gun.




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