...and, wouldn't ya know, it was broke.
Picked it up this little Pathfinder snubby last week, and took it out to the back yard to plink some tin cans. All I got was 'click, click, click.' -almost no primer indents.
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Well, they come apart easy enough. Problem was pretty obvious-
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Broken firing pin. A little bit of the tip actually fell out of the channel and was likely preventing it from its full travel.
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Not sure what it's made of but it's nonmagnetic. Bronze maybe?
Charter doesn't sell them, or at least doesn't list them on their website.
$13 in stock at Numrich, though.
Oh well, the gun was used and cheap. Fortunately it also looks like a cheap and easy fix.
Turns out they are that bad- at least this one was!