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Your gun screws working
loose after repeated firing is one of those nuisance situations that all
Cowboy Action Shooter experience at the range. The Cowboy Action Shooting
sport tends to expend more ammo than most other shooting sports, thus the
guns experiences more wear and tear than seen at other shooting sports or
what the typical hunter experiences.
Your range kit should include a Gun Screwdriver set, not just
any ordinary hardware screwdriver set. The screws on your guns are of a Phillister head design. These screws have a much deep slot than most
common screws found around the home or on your vehicle. A regular hardware
store screwdriver will not properly engage Phillister head screws. The
regular screwdriver will only contact the slot at the very outer edge and
as torque is applied tends to destroy the edge, eventually damaging the
screw slot or even chipping off a piece of the screw.
A gun screwdriver has
specially ground tips that are parallel and deep enough to fully engage
the entire slot through its entire depth. You should actually feel the
screwdriver tip "drop" into the screw slot. The gun screwdriver set should
contain all of the sizes needed for all of the screws found on
your guns. Handle screws and trigger guard screws tend to be a narrower
slot, while the hammer pivot screw tends to be a wider screw slot. Each
screw needs a different sized screwdriver.
There are some lower
cost tool makers that have screwdrivers that are not hardened and
excessive torque or not seating the tool into the screw slot will chip
of the screwdriver tip. Some may see this as a benefit-break the tool,
not the screw. Actually this is misusing the tool. A broken tool is
useless and can cause more damage. Get high quality screwdrivers that
have hardened tips and use then properly. |
