Mini-14's don't like bumpfiring, apparently.
Posted: July 5th, 2016, 8:12 pm
As part of the celebrations last night, some pals and I spent an hour or so on the backyard range with fireworks of our own. I brought out the ranch rifle to pop the gongs a few times, and then someone asked me if I've ever bumpfired with it. I said I'd heard of bumpfiring, but never tried it. Guy said with the free-floating pin it'd be easy, and showed me how it worked. I tucked the butt under my arm, grasped the forend of the stock, and pulled the whole thing forward.
Pa-pa-pa-clank-clatter! Those last two sounds were the entirety of the trigger assembly just falling out of the rifle, along with the magazine. Cleared the chamber, popped the trigger back in, loaded up again, same thing happened. It was good for a few laughs to see the whole rifle literally fall to pieces like in some old comedy short, but I'm concerned if this is just the nature of a rifle that begins takedown with a triggerguard, or if something in it's been weakened. Seems I've had a fair few issues with trigger guards lately.
Pa-pa-pa-clank-clatter! Those last two sounds were the entirety of the trigger assembly just falling out of the rifle, along with the magazine. Cleared the chamber, popped the trigger back in, loaded up again, same thing happened. It was good for a few laughs to see the whole rifle literally fall to pieces like in some old comedy short, but I'm concerned if this is just the nature of a rifle that begins takedown with a triggerguard, or if something in it's been weakened. Seems I've had a fair few issues with trigger guards lately.