I recently picked up a nice 6" Automag II....the only reason it's nice is because it was sent to CCR to have the crap finish cleaned up and plated/coated in CPII. The slide, barrel, and everything feels like it's running on roller bearings....I'm pretty impressed with it.

However, the gun didn't work. At all.

Light primer strikes.
Failures to feed.
12+ pound trigger pull.
Failures to extract.
Failures to eject.

Hell, you name it....typical AMT junk, which of course doesn't surprise me anymore.

I won't bore you with everything that was done to fix all the above issues, but I got all that stuff fixed and the thing running perfectly on some 10 year old Winchester Super X ammo, but I only had one box left. So I ordered up 10 boxes and figured I was good to go. Nope.

The new ammo is clearly WAY under powered compared to the old stuff and would not cycle the gun. I had also tried Remington, Fiocchi, CCI, Speer, Federal, Armscor, and Hornady and cycling was either non-existant or spotty. However, when I fired up some Aguila ammo, all was golden again. Perfect functioning just like it had done with the older Winchester Super X.


At one point I even dropped in a lighter recoil spring, but even that didn't allow any other ammo to cycle other than the Aguila.

Tony

Tony,

you know way more than me, been down same road.

I had one (still have it) that had a bad safety lever, it would snap on safe everytime it fired. too weak of a ball detent. I fixed that (kinda a pain to reassemble). I've also had light strikes (bent strut, common, also springs take a set-was able to get them new back then). Failure to feed based on poor magazines, if you find ones that work, keep them-have two.

Once you get it working, they shoot really great. It's an accurate little booger and fun. But I can see why people don't like them. And if you see one used at a gunshow for cheap, it's probably got problems.....

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.....I picked up another Automag II, but this one is the 3.5" compact shorty.

I loaded it up, pulled the trigger....click.

It had the back end broken off the firing pin, which are NLA, so some wizard of a gunsmith decided to drill and tap the back of the pin and screw in an extension rod. Of course the rod was broken off in the back of the pin.


I was unable to extract the broken off shaft, so I just ground it flat, fired up the TiG, and welded the back end up, adding about 3/8" in length. I used 309L stainless rod which gets pretty darn hard when it air cools.


The gun would then actually fire, but had an occassional light firing pin strike and an occassional failure to extract. I made up a stronger extractor spring and replaced the bent hammer spur, and all was good. Ran about 100 rounds without a hitch. I still need to fix the 12 pound trigger pull though.


Tony Rumore
Tromix


   

Was at the range with my newly acquired 6".  First trigger pull gun went bang, cycled like it was supposed to, and something hit me in the forehead, just above my right eye glass.  

I am neither an expert or a 'Smith.  But over the years I have been messing with these, you did to those two what most of the people with problems should do to them.