by Mooko » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:50 pm
I bought mine, a duotone, from the sporting goods store where I worked. A local know-it-all bought it. He brought back the pieces in a bag two days later. He had disassembled it, cleaned it, and reassembled improperly. The slide stop pin was not inserted all the way. When he shot it, the slide stop broke and the slide jammed. Of course, he blamed the gun. We gave him his money back. I then bought it for $100 dollars, got a new slide stop from Llama, and put it back together. Something had been warped when the thing flew apart because the slide would stick before it went completely into battery. On visual instection, I couldnt detect anyhing bent, bent something was not sliding correctly. I took a bit of fine valve grinding compound mixed with oil, put it in the rail guides and worked the action a few minutes. After cleanup, it is very tight but smooth as glass. It functions flawlessly with 230 gr hardball. Thats all I shoot in my 45s anyway. It is a dandy to stick in my bacl pocket when I walk the dogs in the woods. Several armadillos wish I had never bought the thing.