My first AD or why I feel like an idiot

So, have you done a detail-strip-and-clean of the slide to clean the firing pin channel? Replaced the FP spring recently?

Jim H.

Whats the summons for? Accidentally discharging within city limits?

Dunno if I would have called them unless there was massive property damage, damage to someone elses property, or someone was hurt by it.

Edit: oooh oooh try it again and see if it goes bang this time too, and make sure to keep ya booger hook off the bang switch

Glad you learned something.

Just remember to have your weapon pointed in a safe direction next time.

Why did you call the cops?

I wouldn't have called the cops, but I would have wandered about to see if anyone was bleeding. LOLz.

Hopefully for you Co. is a more forgiving state than Illinois. If I did that here and they gave me a summons......say good bye to your second amendment right!! Of course I would not have called the cops.

Well lets just hope for you the Judge thinks the same way and is lenient. Good luck.

You better hope there are no recent unsolved murders in your neck of the woods.

The officers said that it was best that I called and not some one else


big time and the way you handled that speaks loudly as to your good character.
it could be much worse no one hurt is a good thing


and thanks for the reminder to the rest of us

But what was the summons for? Is and AD against the law? Sorry if thats a dumb question, i just dont know.

Brian

OK, first things first--this HAS to be / become a LEARNING experience....

So, you are processing some of the psychological side of this stuff now, with this discussion--and that's good. However, you may have not yet figured out why it happened. If you learn that, you will be one more step into being a responsible and more-experienced 1911 shooter.

Depending on any number of factors having to do with general cleanliness, your 1911 may well need a full detail-strip-and-clean. That's the frame, and the slide, considering them as two separate assemblies.

Here is one link to a set of online videos and instructions for 1911 disassembly. I imagine your Taurus manual includes some written instructions, too--and perhaps the factory web site has videos or other pertinent commentary.

Study these videos and the manuals before attempting the work. Read. Read some more. You will probably want to buy some tools, or at least gather them from your tool box or workbench before you start.

FWIW, my guess is that your FP spring channel needs cleaning, and that you may need to replace the FP spring as well. If you've got a few 1000 rounds through this pistol, it could also be time for a new recoil spring--and so on and so on.

I suggest you boogy on over the the gunsmithing forum and do some reading. And, google is your friend--there is a surfeit of 1911 info on line, so make the use of what you need to expand your skills and your knowledge of it.

Jim H.

Wonder if any of these is worth investing in. http://www.safedirection.com/products/ballisticpadsandcases.html

Isn't the Taurus's firing pin like a regular 1911? I believe you depress the pin using something like a pen and slide the retaining plate down.

Do not do anything to the firearm other than taking it to a gunsmith to find out if there's a material defect or not.

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Absolutely. And if there IS a defect ask the gunsmith to put it in writing. A judge might be more inclined to go easy if you can show SOME reason that it was mechanical rather than negligence. Couldn't hurt anyway.

If the firing ping stuck in a position to strike the primer, there would be difficulty getting a round to slide up the breech face and under the extractor hook- ie it wouldn't chamber a round. The only diagram I was able to find on-line shows the taurus as quasi series 80, ie it has a firing pin block. Assuming the firearm was in good shape implies you triggered the shot-oops.

absolutely. And if there is a defect ask the gunsmith to put it in writing. A judge might be more inclined to go easy if you can show some reason that it was mechanical rather than negligence. Couldn't hurt anyway.

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+10000

"What I think what happened was the firing pin got stuck and when I dropped the slide the pin hit the primer and BOOM!!"

Not too common for a 1911. What evidence do you have that the firing pin got stuck?

Thanx, Russ

Glass is expensive.
Just got my den window replaced and just the glass cost me a lot of pretty pennies...like 235 dollars worth.

If anything, no lesson is better learned than one that hits the wallet.

Sorry, but since you admitted to being unfamiliar with the 1911, I have to ask:

How do you chamber a round, OP?
Do you drop it into the chamber manually, and then close the slide without a magazine?

OR

Do you chamber the first round from a magazine?