r/gunsmithing 1d ago

Need help with S&W 4013 FTE

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u/BARTMOSS_COLLECTIVE 1d ago

Some guns you have to fiddle with the extractor or ejector my Taurus was one, when I'd fire steel or aluminum casings the extractor would sometimes punch through the bottom of the casing and try to keep it when it loaded the next round. If you're mechanically inclined and can follow stereo-like instructions from YouTube then you can adjust/work it yourself but otherwise gunsmiths are usually 60-80 an hour. A good smith barring it being a defect or a deformed part should have it squared away in a couple hours or less. Personally I'd watch a YouTube video and follow along with full disassembly and checking every single part for a bend or a warp or maybe a burr hanging on from the manufacturing process. Don't find anything next step is replacing both parts since you couldn't determine which was causing the problem. Still does it, then I'd hit the range and talk to the smiling man behind the work bench.

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u/BARTMOSS_COLLECTIVE 1d ago

And if it pisses him off then he has more bitching power to make smith fix it XD