Posted: 10/13/2008 3:26:15 PM EDT
| my wife just bought a charter arms pink lady in 38 spl. It is exhibiting light primer strike about every 4-5 rounds. seems to not like cci primers but will shoot winchester primers. Anyone had this happen? Will be returning pistol to the shop tomarrow for evaluation by the smith. Greydog. |
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Not unheard of to have light primer strikes among guns of lower value. Been known to happen to the better made guns too, only not as often. There's brands out there that are known for harder than other primers. I can't tell you which brands those are, but some reloaders will be along shortly whom probably can/will shed some light on that. Good luck! |
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Federal is known for having soft primers. Lots of M-1 shooters won't use Federal primers for that reason, and a lot of the cowboy action shooters use Federal exclusively. (their guns are often set up with very light springs) You might want to clean the Charter extremely well before you have the gunsmith look at it. Clean out the preservative the manufacturer uses and lube properly. If that does not work, I believe that the charter uses a coil spring, and Wolff should have something that will work. |
I've got a Charter .38 and I was getting light primer strikes also. I paid for shipping but Charter fixed it for free. I don't know if they have a lifetime warrantee, but I didn't get a bill. It's been trouble free since. |
 Got the charter arms pink lady back after 6 weeks. they said they replaced the fireing pin. tested the pistol saturday. failure rate even higher than before the "fix". Gunbroker in Tigard oregon's solution was to send it back again. won't refund $ offered to buy it back for 150.00 less than purchase. I'm Pissed!!!! Charter is junk. Repair service is friggin clueless. Will bite the proverbial bullet and buy her a quality smith and wesson bodyguard hammerless. I have no faith in Charter arms products at this point. Greydog.
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Quoted: my wife just bought a charter arms pink lady in 38 spl. It is exhibiting light primer strike about every 4-5 rounds. seems to not like cci primers but will shoot winchester primers. Anyone had this happen? Will be returning pistol to the shop tomarrow for evaluation by the smith. Greydog. CCI primers are probably the hardest available. Winchester is second. As has been mentioned already, Federal is very "soft." Remington primers are harder tha Federal but less so than Winchester. Got the charter arms pink lady back after 6weeks. they said they replaced the fireing pin. tested the pistol saturday. failure rate even higher than before the "fix". Gunbroker in Tigard oregon's solution was to send it back again. won't refund $ offered to buy it back for 150.00 less than purchase. I'm Pissed!!!! Charter is junk. Repair service is friggin clueless. Will bite the proverbial bullet and buy her a quality smith and wesson bodyguard hammerless. I have no faith in Charter arms products at this point. Greydog.  Wow, what piss poor customer service from your gun shop. As the former owner of three Charter Arms revolvers, all of which had problems, I understand your frustration. IMO they're better in theory than practice. I just wish they weren't the sole source for a small .44 Special. |
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Your problem is an out of spec crane. These occur in bad lots from subcontractor made parts
What is happening is the warped crane is causing the cylinder to tilt so that the firing pin isn't quite smacking the primers deeply enough The same thing happened to my bulldog pug when it was new. Charter will fix it free and test fire it before sending it back. FYI - I had the same thing happen with a brand new Ruger Redhawk whose cylinder was bored too deeply causing bad headspacing on two chambers (round would drop too far inside the chamber for the pin to reach the primer - we're talking by thousandths of inches) |
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Nope. has not been fired. Sold "as new in box." I must say, it has no end shake, no excessive play in the crane, the clocking seems dead on. Why did it take two trips back to the factory and the resulting replacement of a new gun to resolve my problem. I bought my wife a brand new S.W. 642 hammerless. She is thrilled. Greydog.  
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