zzzarkt
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Hello folks, I hope to get some help with a rather disturbing problem I found last night with my wife's carry gun, a S&W 638.
I was just watching TV last night so I decided to run some snap caps through my wife's carry gun just to do some dry firing. I immediately noticed a problem with the trigger, normally when you begin to pull the trigger, the trigger immediately moves back, the tension builds then the hammer is released right?
Well now when pressure is applied to the trigger it does not move at all until about 3 times the regular pressure is applied, I don't have a pull gauge but I would guess it is about 20-25lbs. Only when this amount of pressure is applied something seems to "snap" and then the trigger moves and the gun functions normally.
I don't think the problem has to do with the mainspring, because I can thumb the hammer back and dry fire in single action with no problem.
I am going to take the gun to a local gunsmith this weekend so he can take a look at it, hopefully the problem is something easy (cheap) to fix. I don't look foreward to having to send it off to S&W to be repaired, the gun is only about four months old.
If nothing else, this is a valuable lesson. Check the function of any firearm that you or your loved ones may depend on. The scary thing is just last weekend my wife was with her friends without me around carrying this very gun for protection. It is disturbing to think that she may have had to use it with the trigger the way it is.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I could use some help here.
I was just watching TV last night so I decided to run some snap caps through my wife's carry gun just to do some dry firing. I immediately noticed a problem with the trigger, normally when you begin to pull the trigger, the trigger immediately moves back, the tension builds then the hammer is released right?
Well now when pressure is applied to the trigger it does not move at all until about 3 times the regular pressure is applied, I don't have a pull gauge but I would guess it is about 20-25lbs. Only when this amount of pressure is applied something seems to "snap" and then the trigger moves and the gun functions normally.
I don't think the problem has to do with the mainspring, because I can thumb the hammer back and dry fire in single action with no problem.
I am going to take the gun to a local gunsmith this weekend so he can take a look at it, hopefully the problem is something easy (cheap) to fix. I don't look foreward to having to send it off to S&W to be repaired, the gun is only about four months old.
If nothing else, this is a valuable lesson. Check the function of any firearm that you or your loved ones may depend on. The scary thing is just last weekend my wife was with her friends without me around carrying this very gun for protection. It is disturbing to think that she may have had to use it with the trigger the way it is.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, I could use some help here.