Towards the end of today's pellet experiments over my chronograph, a Caldwell, my S510 Xtra started to under-rotate its magazine. I could still shoot the gun if I did the pull the mag-index the next round-replace the mag routine, but I wasn't comfy with the idea of firing a 'wounded' weapon. So I brought the gun in to have a better look. It didn't take long to find the cause of its choking. That little, teeny, tiny flat springy thing that actually engages the mag and turns it was broken. I have yet to see anyone at the range with the same rifle, so I wondered...
You needn't be an engineer to see the inevitability of that 'actuator' failing given the repeated flex and then take compression cycle it sees. The fact that I was able to find a replacement piece for so obscure part so easily would lead me to think these things must break (and be replaced) often enough to justify the shelf space devoted to them.
All of which leads me to a couple questions. First, is my assumption accurate> Do these things break that often? Second, any ideas about how to mitigate the issue, other than laying in a stock of the part myself?
Thanks
You needn't be an engineer to see the inevitability of that 'actuator' failing given the repeated flex and then take compression cycle it sees. The fact that I was able to find a replacement piece for so obscure part so easily would lead me to think these things must break (and be replaced) often enough to justify the shelf space devoted to them.
All of which leads me to a couple questions. First, is my assumption accurate> Do these things break that often? Second, any ideas about how to mitigate the issue, other than laying in a stock of the part myself?
Thanks
Good Luck! J.L.
