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Taming the Jimenez JA-380

Miscellaneous Items

Broken Firing-Pin

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Much to our surprise, we had a firing-pin break on us. Luckily it was only the tail end, the part that serves as the "cocked" indicator,so the gun still fired just fine. This is a vulnerable area, as it is so narrow, and the firing-pin is made of a brittle cast-iron. In myopinion, it would be far better to keep this tail area the same diameter as the rest of the pin, and forget about that plastic sleeve. Sure, it is a nice little frill to have that red indicator show that the firing-pin is cocked, but it is totally unnecessary that it be a plasticcap. Why not leave it the natural metal color, or paint the end red? Either would serve just as well, and it would be much lessvenerable to breakage. Anyway, and quick call to the factory parts line, and a new one arrived free of charge in just a few days. Youcan't beat that kind of service.

Magazine Blues

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In the circled area in the picture above, if you look closely, you will see several bumps in the magazine face. These aremanufacturing errors, and we think it came about from the small round punch-outs that you see on the sides getting caught in themachinery. These small bumps greatly interfered with magazine insertion and especially extraction. I took the easy way out, andadded this to my call to the factory about the firing-pin, and they gladly sent out 2 new magazines free of charge as well. Like I say,you just can't beat service like that!

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As you can see, the new magazines are nicely free from this error.

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