As we have moved on to the P17 another issue with them is receiver ring cracks. One cause may have been too hard of an action and a tight barrel. I have seen a few over the years and most of them were in the as issued state. de Haas points out that all makes can have the cracks and says it mostly happens when re barreling as many of the barrels ave very tight. He also feels it may be to bad heat treating of the receiver.

Also, when the US made over the P14 they went with the cone breach rather than the P14's flat barrel face. I have not seen any cracked P14's but also have not worked on or seen as many in general.
Cheers,
Laurie

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