Ok so ive been having a bit of trouble with my marlin 795 semi-auto carbine. For about 50-30% of the time i fire the rifle with a variety of ammunition (cci, federal, remington, blazer, etc) the rifle will fire, eject the casing, chamber a new round from a magazine, but without cocking the hammer. So I will manually have to rack the charging handle hard enough to cock the hammer, to fire another round. This of course ejects a live round out of the chamber.
When I manually rack the charging handle back, I can definitely feel the tension of the hammer spring which feels quite stiff. I have actually manually racked the charging handle back and forth with ammo in the magazines and ejected/loaded rounds without the hammer cocking. So I'm pretty sure the problem is centered around the hammer spring/hammer. So what should I do to alleviate this problem? ...Note: The action was pretty dirty, so I recently soaked the action in hoppes and CLP and removed quite a bit of nasty crud from the rifle. I havent had a chance to shoot it yet, but judging by my racking of the charging handle I kinda feel that the problem will not go away.
When I manually rack the charging handle back, I can definitely feel the tension of the hammer spring which feels quite stiff. I have actually manually racked the charging handle back and forth with ammo in the magazines and ejected/loaded rounds without the hammer cocking. So I'm pretty sure the problem is centered around the hammer spring/hammer. So what should I do to alleviate this problem? ...Note: The action was pretty dirty, so I recently soaked the action in hoppes and CLP and removed quite a bit of nasty crud from the rifle. I havent had a chance to shoot it yet, but judging by my racking of the charging handle I kinda feel that the problem will not go away.