Take-Down Button
The take-down button needed a little work.
The pin-hook was a little too long, so it was very difficult to break the gun
down. In fact, it was so difficult at first that the only way to
break the gun down after depressing the button was to use a small
screwdriver slipped into the seam between the button and
frame. It had to be pried apart.
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The pin-hook was a little bit long, and as you can
see in the picture above marked with the red arrow, I trimmed it a little and
rounded the edge. I also quickly de-burred the back two edges marked with
yellow, and trimmed and rounded the edge marked with green. This worked
very well, and now the gun comes apart a lot easier.
Trigger
The trigger on this gun had such sharp edges, and
such a sharp mold seam down the center of the trigger face, that it made a sore
trigger finger very quickly. It was very uncomfortable to shoot, but
fortunately the trigger is made of plastic which is easy to alter.
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Without removing the trigger, I simply used my pocket-knife to scrape the sharp
plastic corners down to a nice rounded and smooth edge, as you can see in the
above pictures. I scraped down the mold seam on the trigger face in the
same way. I just quickly reshaped the trigger enough until it was
comfortable.
Grip
The right-side grip had a rather pronounced lower
corner, more so then the left-side grip. This corner made for very
uncomfortable shooting for my niece's small hand, and actually cased some
bruising of flesh and nerves. On close examination, it became clear
that really anyone with a small hand would have some discomfort, because of
where and how this corner hit the palm of the hand. There is a quite
sensitive nerve in that area, and the grip hit it spot-on for smaller
hands.
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It is easy to see what
I did to it in the above picture. I simply used the small fold-out file
from my Leatherman brand multi-tool to quickly file it into a better
shape. I had to thin it down and round it a little more. It
was easy to do while still attached to the handgun, and made for easy
testing too. I tried to make it look as good as I could, not wanting
it to take away from the good looks of the gun. Any metal-file, or
course sandpaper, would have worked just as well. Surprisingly,
it is now more comfortable for everyone.
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