I’m getting set up for a bowling pin practice shoot on Thursday this week so tonight I’m running through parts of my gun collection, cleaning things up, and making sure I’ve got all my magazines ready to go.
The handguns are easy but putting this Kel Tec Sub 2000 back together is a bitch. Now, there shouldn’t be anything hard about it but the bolt doesn’t want to “hop” over the hammer on reassembly. It’s always been a problem but it’s been at least two years since I broke it down so I wasn’t sure what to do anymore.
Basically there’s a big heavy bolt, as it’s a delayed blowback system, in two pieces. This slides down the buffer tube and is supposed to hop over the cocked hammer. Supposed to. On mine the freaking bolt face slams into the hammer which leaves me with two choices:
1) SLAM the bolt into it, hard, over and over until it hops over. This is what I used to do but didn’t feel this was the proper way anymore. I’m becoming more gentle.
2) Slide the bolt in, insert the cocking handle to keep in place, and then shove a metal rod in to push the hammer down.
What a bitch. Took me about 45 minutes to actually get it back together.
