jr_roosa
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I was shooting my Colt at the range yesterday. It's a Rail Gun with about 700 rounds. It has an S&A replacement grip safety (I don't like the memory bump) and an aftermarket stainless MSH, each have been on it for about 300 rnds. Grip safety was fitted by me and seemed to work properly.
So, slide is back, insert loaded mag, rack slide, go to fire, and nothing happens. I bring the pistol down and try to put the thumb safety back on and it doesn't want to go up. Hammer is still back. I wiggle the thumb safety up and down a couple of times and then the hammer falls to half cock...thank god for trigger and barrel discipline.
It did it once more after that, and trying to dry fire it about 100 times to reproduce the problem I got it to do it again.
I detail stripped it and the sear, disconnector, hammer, etc all looked grossly OK.
I took it to the smith at the range and he messed with it and adjusted the grip safety a little and thought that the hammer strut might have been hanging up on the channel in the grip safety or that the hammer was bumping the sear when it fell, but that was with the half cock notch when it was nearly all the way down.
So...any ideas? I'm planning on it making a trip home to Colt for some custom work, but I wanted to put that off for a few months.
-J.
So, slide is back, insert loaded mag, rack slide, go to fire, and nothing happens. I bring the pistol down and try to put the thumb safety back on and it doesn't want to go up. Hammer is still back. I wiggle the thumb safety up and down a couple of times and then the hammer falls to half cock...thank god for trigger and barrel discipline.
It did it once more after that, and trying to dry fire it about 100 times to reproduce the problem I got it to do it again.
I detail stripped it and the sear, disconnector, hammer, etc all looked grossly OK.
I took it to the smith at the range and he messed with it and adjusted the grip safety a little and thought that the hammer strut might have been hanging up on the channel in the grip safety or that the hammer was bumping the sear when it fell, but that was with the half cock notch when it was nearly all the way down.
So...any ideas? I'm planning on it making a trip home to Colt for some custom work, but I wanted to put that off for a few months.
-J.