r/canadaguns • u/TheNintendoPug on • 28d ago

Fix my gun Chiappa's questionable build quality and finish

Any fellow Chiappa owners (and specifically LA322 owners) dealing with quality control issues on their rifles?

Purchased this LA322 Bandit Bootleg earlier this year and its only seen the range twice, yet the finish is peeling right off with no effort. I fear at some point I'll be left with a bare receiver.

I'm considering opening a claim with Chiappa's warranty department. Fingers crossed they'll cover it?

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u/NeruLight 28d ago

Wow that’s super rough. Mine has a small bit that peeled off underneath the takedown handle when I was cleaning it a bit and I instantly knew I would need to continue to baby the finish. Seeing that has me worried for the future lol (I’ve put about 1200 rounds through mine)

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u/TheNintendoPug on 28d ago

Oh damn, I've only ran about a fifth of what you ran through mine. I must have gotten a lemon then unfortunately. I wish they blued the receivers instead of throwing on a cheap coat of paint and calling it a day lol

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u/Q-Ball7 In the end, it's taxes all the way down 27d ago

blued the receivers

The receiver is made of aluminum. This isn't a thing for aluminum. (You can think of aluminum as a self-bluing material; its oxide layer is harder than the metal and that forms on contact with air.)

Normally, aluminum is anodized, so that oxide layer is thickened (and can be colored in the process). But that tends to look weird if you're doing it cheaply (it takes on a purple color cast- look at Crusader's shitty not-AR-15 receivers for a good modern example of this), and won't match the barrel (which is still blued steel).

Cheap paint doesn't stick to aluminum very well, as you've observed, but it does match the color of the barrel so it looks nice on the showroom floor. Tools get wear on them, this thing is a tool, treat it as such.