Reaching out to our shooting community for some advice. It's a shame it couldn't be easier but I am at a loss on what to do. This is just a little backstory of what I've dealt with in the past. Just trying to figure this out on my own at this point.
I've been dealing with a lemon of a pistol I've purchased back in 2014 from *********. I was sold a Compact L and have had nothing but problems from the get go. I would get stovepipes, FTF, FTE,
etc. This is with my 147 powderpuff loads, factory WWB 115's, Federal 124g HST loads, everything. I wanted to rule out it was not the ammo. However, I figured I'd wait and see what ********* would say.
Sent in the 1st time in 2015 and remarked what I had experienced. Pistol came back with no notes and was told, works fine when I called to inquire.
When I got it back I took it out to run it. It was exhibiting all the same issues I was having before. Call ********* again and they had me send it back a 2nd time in 2016, on my own dime, again. Since it was going back again I opted to pay for a short reset work to be done while it was there.
Got the pistol back and realized that the short reset felt stock, just like how I sent it. I called to inquire to see if I was just crazy, but was confirmed by ****** that they forgot to do it. So back again it goes the 3rd time... It is now 2017.
I get the pistol back and Short reset is really in this time. Feels great, but still has FTF and most annoying is it's new gremlin, failure to ignite. I call ********* again, and inquire. I noticed on my past invoices I was paying for some parts twice. I don't mind spending money on quality but when I'm wasting it for no reason that makes me a bit perturbed. I now have (x3) extended firing pins along with some extra springs that was supposedly part of the initial custom ********* Compact L job.
At this point I am utterly disappointed with this pistol as I've dumped easily over a grand into it. Not to mention time and the mandatory Fedex overnight shipping costs required to send the pistol back to them, repeatedly. Each time I just shake my head in disbelief. At one point I wanted to return the pistol. But realizing it's a firearm and can get tricky with CA and DOJ. Having worked DoD/Gov in the past. I can just see that return turning into another headache. I can understand a novice and perhaps a new shooter, that this may be seen as user error, as 9-out-of-10 times, it's user error. But the fact is this is my 5th pistol that I have purchased from ********* and they have ALL worked as they should. ...Just not this one. That being said, I average a round count of 15-20k rounds a year, just in pistols. This is nowhere near competitive levels, but enough to know when a pistol is hiccuping. Completely turned off by this whole ordeal as it's been 3yrs of troubleshooting and nothing accomplished. I shelf the pistol as I am exhausted.
2019 comes around and I'm finally getting tired of moving the ********* Compact L around in my safe.
What do you guys think? I'm at a loss right now on what to do. At this point I am on my own. All three of my extended firing pins measure the same length. I'm assuming hammer spring or machining depth of the firing pin channel?