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Posted: 3/29/2010 6:01:56 PM EDT
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First, I don't understand why they didn't make the rear pin like the front with just a spring loaded pin instead of the roll pin but that is neither here nor there I guess.
A couple years ago I build an AR using a Stag LPK. I didn't have a punch small enough to recess the trigger guard pin down below the surface so I just left it. I finally got a punch set and went to recess it and there is NO chance it is going farther than it is which is flush with receiver. I set it on a 2x4 and had my wife hold it there while I tried to tap it in further. It appears to be stuck in the hole in the trigger guard as I can unhook the front pin and it will rotate. I just installed a RRA LPK Saturday and it was simple to tap it in place. Any suggestions? I'm thinking I shoudl just leave it alone until I want to change the trigger guard. If I ever do I wonder if I should just drill a hole in a 2x4 and hit lightly. Failing that working my thought was to dremel the guard off and cut it in half then pull out the two halves. Does that sound stupid. I am kind of a perfectionist and hate when things aren't quite right. |
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You could leave it. It's working.
If you remove it try a 3/8" thick piece of wood with a hole in it. The receiver will sit flat on the work surface and the 3/8" board will slide under the trigger guard area. Oil it up and tap it out the opposite way you put it in. I like to use a smaller punch than 1/8", like a 3/32" to do it. (Works best with the grip off.) Cutting it would work, too. You risk a wandering Dremel doing damage to the lower, but if you can control it it would work. RRA's have always gone in easier then others |
| I would leave it be. I too, am a perfectionist of sorts, and I was recently going over one of my first builds, and sure enough, the trigger guard roll pin was not countersunk. So, I am getting ready to get the punch & hammer out, then I think back about how many times I've read about broken trigger guard "ears", and realized it is fine like it is. |
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Quoted:
First, I don't understand why they didn't make the rear pin like the front with just a spring loaded pin instead of the roll pin but that is neither here nor there I guess. Because if both ends CAN come out then Murphy says they both will come out and now you could lose the trigger guard. With one end always pinned you can never lose it. |
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