wally
Member
Nice way to take the pistol out of action
The lever that raises to deactivate the firing pin (striker) safety broke rendering the pistol unable to fire!
Failures don't get much worse!
Luckily I was just shooting steel plates at the range. Mowing 'em down then click no bang, tap-rack, loaded round ejects, still no bang, third time not a charm. Time to actually troubleshoot. No mark at all on the primers of the ejected rounds. Did the "pencil test" cocked the striker, put a pencil in the empty chamber and bore, pointed the gun "up", pulled the trigger, pencil doesn't move. Clearly not going to ever fire like this. I quickly locked the slide back pushed the firing pin block lever up and moved the striker forward, clearly the firing pin wasn't broken and nothing was blocking its forward movement. Called it a day, Problem was obvious when I got home and removed the slide and cleaned things up a bit.
I'll have to call SIG, tomorrow, doesn't look like something that would be easy to swap out.
The lever that raises to deactivate the firing pin (striker) safety broke rendering the pistol unable to fire!
Failures don't get much worse!
Luckily I was just shooting steel plates at the range. Mowing 'em down then click no bang, tap-rack, loaded round ejects, still no bang, third time not a charm. Time to actually troubleshoot. No mark at all on the primers of the ejected rounds. Did the "pencil test" cocked the striker, put a pencil in the empty chamber and bore, pointed the gun "up", pulled the trigger, pencil doesn't move. Clearly not going to ever fire like this. I quickly locked the slide back pushed the firing pin block lever up and moved the striker forward, clearly the firing pin wasn't broken and nothing was blocking its forward movement. Called it a day, Problem was obvious when I got home and removed the slide and cleaned things up a bit.
I'll have to call SIG, tomorrow, doesn't look like something that would be easy to swap out.