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Topic ID: 26
Message ID: 7
#7, RE: I Know Engineers, They Love to Change Things
Posted by MoonEyes on Mar-20-17 at 04:16 PM
In response to message #6
>It's because of step 6 of the reassembly, where you have to put the
>magazine back in order to dry-fire the pistol (because the Mk IV has a
>magazine safety).

Well, yeah, but surely that should be a matter for the REassembly(as it indeed is, though interestingly NOT in red), and not the DISassembly?
Sure, they're probably assuming you'd instantly reassemble with the same magazine, but it still looks silly-buggers to me.

>I find it mildly cringey that the instructions (repeatedly!) advise
>dry-firing a rimfire pistol—I would have thought the risk of peening
>the chamber rim would be worse than leaving it cocked—but I suppose
>one should trust that the manufacturer knows best about these things.

Well, maybe they do, but I'm entirely with you on this one.


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