(GunReports.com) — A tip from American Gunsmith:
One of the members of a forum that I frequent damaged the extractor in his pistol and then started to hunt for a replacement part. After exhaustive pursuit, his conclusion was that he could only use his pistol as a paperweight as parts were nowhere to be found.
His inability to find that part, which he posted on the forum, raised the concerns of many owners of that pistol and others in that series. That one small part could render many pistols useless with no source available.
One of the things I stress to gun owners is to save the broken part so a gunsmith will at least have something to physically measure and copy, even if it is in pieces. I was fortunate in this instance as I had the same pistol and could remove and measure the part so that I could reproduce it.
For more info on how Gunsmith Gerry Ritacco made this fix, check out the February 2010 issue of American Gunsmith.
