I have alternate firearms as well.
Spare Firearms Parts for Preppers
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Kman
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As far as ARs are concerned, I try to stock everything except take-down detent pins...
Just check the vacuum cleaner. Has to be at least a few in there.
Sirex
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I have a bunch for the Mosins, because I bought all that crap when it was cheap. Have spare Mossberg 500 parts, spare extractors for the AKs, spare parts kits for the ARs. Hell, spare entire uppers for the ARs. Each gun I hand down to the kids will have a pretty basic manual, and a few parts, and a can of ammo as well.
omegared24
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No joke. My wife found one in the light fixture in the kitchen. I looked everywhere for that damn thing. Months later, she finds it. Haven't lost one since I got this.
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You gotta try the Real Avid clevis pin dealy. I've used several different clevis devices through the years and the real avid is hands down the best(for ARs).
https://www.joeboboutfitters.com/Real-Avid-AR-15-Pivot-Pin-Tool-p/avid-avar15ppt.htm
https://www.joeboboutfitters.com/Real-Avid-AR-15-Pivot-Pin-Tool-p/avid-avar15ppt.htm
omegared24
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I'll check it out.
daggo66
Ultimate Member
Not all over. But if push came to shove there is likely at least one behind a shelf in my reloading room.
Likely along with at least a few primers. I’ll move some day and probably find it, a dozen primers and my dillo bottle opener (no I don’t drink and reload, but the damn thing disappeared in my basement weeks ago and I assume the reloading room gnome stole it and took it to its home. Along with primers and probably some socks from the wash).
My spare parts are working backup firearms.... in a very wide variety of calibers. Primary plan is dig in and fortify rather than than bug out... but if we have to bug out, I have multiples that my family will carry and a spare or two. I don't want to have to worry about fixing something as critical as a firearm while bugging out... just shelve it and draw another.
Muleskinner
Ultimate Member
I keep a lower parts kit and a couple "oops" kits for my AR platforms.
Here is a list for extra Glock parts that I kept on hand. Sorry couldn’t be more helpful on other brands. Glock is very reliable but it can still break, mostly due to human error and you will see them here:
Magazine/springs/follower: get a bunch new mags if you don't want to deal with rebuild. Magazine usually is the first part that fails or most of feeding failures came from. You can rebuild old magazine by replacing the follower and spring (for those of your remember the pre-90 LE only high cap mags). Go with Glock OEM springs or Wolff heat treated springs. But still, IMO once rebuilt they should be range only.
Front sights: If you planning on keep your OEM plastic front sight, you do want to keep front sight post in stock. Or might as well get iron/night sights while you are at it. It’s important to replace the plastic front sight, it is a cost-reducing part. If you are planning racking the slide with your sights, replace them.
RSA: Recoil Spring Assembly, other than magazine, another item that can cause feeding problem or out of battery. Gen4 and the slim line Glocks had some issue with RSA coming out of factory line. Make sure you order the most current and updated RSA. Check Glock’s website under download, the armor’s order form usually shown the latest part #. Glock recommend replace RSA every 5k rounds (or 7500, can’t remember). Personally I think they last significantly longer than that, YMMV.
Extractor, add a few dollars to get the plunger and spring. Case shaving can get collected in this area. Extractor is rather strong. If it’s bad you will notice it immediately, but to trouble shoot it may take a while to eliminate all other options related to ejection. It rarely goes bad but keep a new one on hand to trouble shoot, process of elimination.
Firing pin spring and the 2 halves of firing pin cup. The cup can go bad if you over clean/full disassemble more than you need, human error, they rarely goes bad on their own. However, most of the time you lose these two parts when taking the firing pin assembly apart, they tend to hit the ceiling and very hard to find unless you have light color flooring.
Firing pin Sleeve, over cleaning can cause the sleeve to crack.
Firing Pin Safety and spring. Some batch of Gen4 firing pin safety (the round one) has coating issue. It’s an eye sore but rarely cause issues.
Trigger with trigger bar. Trigger bar can bent and lock up the slide. Replacing the trigger is not difficult, but it can get annoying when you have a live round in the chamber when slide is locked.
Magazine/springs/follower: get a bunch new mags if you don't want to deal with rebuild. Magazine usually is the first part that fails or most of feeding failures came from. You can rebuild old magazine by replacing the follower and spring (for those of your remember the pre-90 LE only high cap mags). Go with Glock OEM springs or Wolff heat treated springs. But still, IMO once rebuilt they should be range only.
Front sights: If you planning on keep your OEM plastic front sight, you do want to keep front sight post in stock. Or might as well get iron/night sights while you are at it. It’s important to replace the plastic front sight, it is a cost-reducing part. If you are planning racking the slide with your sights, replace them.
RSA: Recoil Spring Assembly, other than magazine, another item that can cause feeding problem or out of battery. Gen4 and the slim line Glocks had some issue with RSA coming out of factory line. Make sure you order the most current and updated RSA. Check Glock’s website under download, the armor’s order form usually shown the latest part #. Glock recommend replace RSA every 5k rounds (or 7500, can’t remember). Personally I think they last significantly longer than that, YMMV.
Extractor, add a few dollars to get the plunger and spring. Case shaving can get collected in this area. Extractor is rather strong. If it’s bad you will notice it immediately, but to trouble shoot it may take a while to eliminate all other options related to ejection. It rarely goes bad but keep a new one on hand to trouble shoot, process of elimination.
Firing pin spring and the 2 halves of firing pin cup. The cup can go bad if you over clean/full disassemble more than you need, human error, they rarely goes bad on their own. However, most of the time you lose these two parts when taking the firing pin assembly apart, they tend to hit the ceiling and very hard to find unless you have light color flooring.
Firing pin Sleeve, over cleaning can cause the sleeve to crack.
Firing Pin Safety and spring. Some batch of Gen4 firing pin safety (the round one) has coating issue. It’s an eye sore but rarely cause issues.
Trigger with trigger bar. Trigger bar can bent and lock up the slide. Replacing the trigger is not difficult, but it can get annoying when you have a live round in the chamber when slide is locked.
GuitarmanNick
Ultimate Member
Spare weapons are faster and easier to grab than repairing a broken one, especially if you are taking fire.
Keeping spare parts on hand for the ARs, mainly. Got enough to do another complete build. Planning to grab some 9mm Glock parts, too. Looks like a good idea to have spare recoil spring assemblies and parts kits for the frame and slide. All but one of those in my inventory use the same internal parts.
The AR and Glock platforms were chosen as my defensive tools, specifically because of their standardization and ability to share parts.
If the SHTF, there will be enough of both lying around to scavenge for usable parts and ammunition.
Keeping spare parts on hand for the ARs, mainly. Got enough to do another complete build. Planning to grab some 9mm Glock parts, too. Looks like a good idea to have spare recoil spring assemblies and parts kits for the frame and slide. All but one of those in my inventory use the same internal parts.
The AR and Glock platforms were chosen as my defensive tools, specifically because of their standardization and ability to share parts.
If the SHTF, there will be enough of both lying around to scavenge for usable parts and ammunition.
For the AR:
- firing pins
- bolts (maybe an extra carrier as well)
- cam pins
- extractor, ejector, and springs.
- spare fire control group springs and pins
- buffer springs
- firing pins
- bolts (maybe an extra carrier as well)
- cam pins
- extractor, ejector, and springs.
- spare fire control group springs and pins
- buffer springs
danimalw
Ultimate Member
Nope.. mine ended up on Mars.
When I built my second bench (in woodworking thread) I put weather stripping along the bottom to keep the little parts from getting under it.
danimalw
Ultimate Member
For AR's, each has a spare bolt in the grip. Learned my lesson the hard way at the range when an ejector broke.
