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October 5th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Great, another mythical KelTec product that I cannot buy.
I mostly kid, but let me know if anyone can find a Baretta mag Sub2000 for anything close to a reasonable price.
That and their high cap shotgun and their AR-10’ish 7.62 long gun and really, anything except their pocket pistols.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:17 am
My only REAL knock on Kel-Tec was the one kaboom I had with my P3AT, and that problem was most likely caused by a double-charged .380 round (“gun show reloads”). Kel-Tec rebuilt that gun, free of charge (except for the $60 to ship it back to them).
I have 2 S2Ks, one in each caliber, the 9mm takes the Beretta mags and the .40 takes Glock mags. Both shoot well, but to be perfect, need trigger work – a full range day wrecks my trigger finger unless I wear gloves.
The sloppy plastic moldings are a genuine knock, but forget the X-Acto knife, no one is THAT good with such a tool, and you WILL take too much plastic off in spots. Use about a 420-grit sandpaper instead, hand-sanding only. That same paper will take that aggressive checkering down a bit, too.
To clean the action, a 12-ga or 10-ga brush with patch wrapped around does the trick. Leave the action cocked!
The ONE beef I have with the reviewer is about her treatment of the op-rod handle. You NEVER add weight to any part of a blow-back action. Never, Never, NEVER!
If you “fatten up” that op-rod handle with a new metal sleeve (the Mini-Mag Lite head) and the lump of epoxy putty required, what you will get is a heavier op-rod without an increase in the spring tension, which lowers the effect of the blowback, making the action less reliable. Not only will Kel-Tec likely void the lifetime warranty for this, the rifle could let you down just when you need it the most. If you WERE to increase the weight of the op-rod with a different handle, you HAVE to calculate and increase the recoil spring tension by the proper amount.
A better fix would be to design and build an entirely different op-rod handle, weighing exactly the same as the one you removed, and install that. That will take a machinist with milling skills.
The other way around this is to change your manual of arms and dismount the rifle anytime you need to pull the op-rod back, or lock it open. A little practice should get you trained in that manual of arms safely and quickly.
October 5th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Huh. I had no idea that adding weight to a blowback mechanism was verboten. How is this any worse from folks adding aftermarket sights and/or lasers to the top of their semiauto pistols?
Still, while I see your point, it’s done and there’s no going back from it (unless I buy another charging handle.) At this point I’d rather my mother be able to cock the damn thing, and worry about reliability at hopefully much later date.