Anybody having trouble with ejector?

[jphendren]

I own and shoot an O.W. Ainsworth model USFA revolver, and for some reason occasionally the spring in the ejector will turn inside the ejector rod housing. When this happens the tip of the spring will catch the machine marks inside the housing and hang up the ejector, causing it to not slide smoothly, or even bind up to the point of being useless. The only way I have found to fix this is to remove the housing and turn the spring and re-install.

I don't really like taking the housing off every couple shooting trips as I am afraid of damaging the finish, or buggering a screw head. I notice that this occurs when I am shooting hard kicking Swiss FFFg loads. Is there a better spring that I can buy that might alleviate this problem?

I have a 3rd Gen. Colt SAA as well, and I have been shooting that revolver for 13 years, and it has never had a problem with the ejector, it is, and has always been smooth. I'm not knocking USFA, this is my favorite revolver, absolutely beautiful, but this ejector problem needs fixing.

Jared

[Marshal Deadwood]

This might be an easy fix you can do. Now,,take the spring out, look at the very end of the spring. If it is 'sharp'..angled sharply,,or in any shape that might catch on something...stone it to a rounded ,,,very smoothhhhhhhh finish.

I can't 'see' you revolver,,but ,,,I bet that'd cure it right up.

If it appears to be something other than this simple thing, say the actual coil area hanging up...I'd call USFA....USFA will fix it for you..no probs.      Doubt you'd even have to return the entire revolver,,just the housing and spring, and they could polish and buff any problem area and have it running slick in 5 min.

MD