Yea James, I agree.
Wish I had seen your post before pressing the slide. Your solution is I think the best albeit time consuming. But time is hardly the critical factor here. On the plus side, it took very little torque to push the slide back over the bulge so hopefully, along with the greasing, the barrel was coerced more than the slide was.
No measurements from before but I was thinking I can check the clearance over the front part of the barrel and see if there is any slop.
At least the worst case is I just have to buy a new slide too. At least the Bersa will be up and running again as soon as I get the new barrel.
You know what surprises me ... that this would be covered by warranty as it is so obvious what happened. But I guess to some companies a good service reputation and happy customers are more valuable then some barrels and slides. Oh well, I'm ok with not having sent it in .... my fault, my fix.
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597 VTR, because there's so many cans and so little time!
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