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Posted: 8/7/2007 5:48:15 PM EDT
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I have a 10/22 that I have many rounds through and suddenly it's stopped working. The time before this latest trip to the range it stopped firing because the bolt would only retract about 1/2 way back. I took it home cleaned it and it seemed to be fine when I manually cycled the action. On Saturday I take it back to the range and this time I go through about 4 rounds and it doesn't fire. I cycle the action and a new rounds ejects (w/o primer being punched) a new rounds is chambered and I can fire the round. The action cycles and chambers a round. I pull the trigger and nothing happens. It seems that if I fire the round and the round cycles the action it does not fire the next round. I cycle the action manually and it does. Every once in a while I can fire off 2 rounds in a row. It seems to me that when I fire and it cycles the hammer is not cocked but when I manually cycle the action it does. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Cityrepo61 |
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sounds like a secondary sear problem. try this. Of course make sure the gun is unloaded... now cycle the bolt and dry fire, HOLD the trigger back and cycle the bolt briskly... now release the trigger... you should be able to feel the hammer transfer from secondary to primary sear and be able to dry fire again...do this several times... if it fail's ONCE and the gun won't dry fire again then the secondary sear engagement is worn/dirty to the point it can't catch the hammer everytime. If you gave your 10/22 a good detail cleaning it's time for some new trigger pack part's. John |
Thanks John. Everytime I cycle the bolt and do not release the trigger I can NOT dry fire successfully. I will clean the heck out of it this weekend and try this again. Anyone know of a place to get a new trigger pack? Thanks Cityrepo61' |
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Good to hear you have it figured out... glad too help. You do not need to replace the entire trigger pack. First I'd clean the shit out of the trigger pack... in order to do it right you should take it apart... if this bothers you then get a big can of Gun scrubber, carb cleaner or the like and spray the shit out of it!!! once you douch it out really good use an air compressor or canned air to blow it out and repeat! you want to make sure you get the crud out of all the nooks and crevises... in particular under the secondary sear where the small spring sets. Once cleaned, if it still fail's you have no choice but to take the trigger pack apart and look at the secondary sear engagement, make sure it's not rolled or other wise beat up, also make sure the spring is still good. If you really don't want to mess with taking the trigger pack apart then Brownell's sell complete factory unit's for under $50 IIRC, or you can spend the big bucks for volquertsen's unit... right at $200 IIRC. John |
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