Geckgo
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As I am typing this I am getting a hot bath ready for my father's P3AT. Finally got it to the range today, the first time I've gone since he passed. I was having problems with light strikes and soon realized that it was because I'm used to SAO triggers. Fine.
Something about the gun was not letting it reset fully. Even if I let the trigger slam forward under it's own tension, the thing doesn't want to reset fully all of the time. Got to talking with an older fellow at the range and he presented his Ruger LCR. Both guns are pretty much copies of eachother though his had less tendency to try to jump out of my hands, probably the pierce grip extensions at work but maybe other things.
Anyways, on his LCR, when you let of the trigger after firing it makes two distinct clicks as the trigger resets for DAO. The P3AT refused to reset fully on a couple of occassions and I was basically fiddling the trigger with my trigger finger until it would finally stick and hold pressure again before firing.
Asside from the stovepipes with dad's remmington fmj ammo, no other problems were noted, and one I got used to the double click it wasn't so bad.
Basically, is there a spring that I can stretch a little somewhere or any kind of work I can do to the trigger to make it reset a little easier. I had a look around and could only find references to people complaining about this problem on the P3AT, no fixes as of yet in my search.
Broke down the gun and cleaned it, then took the frame and flushed it with hot soapy water. The trigger seems to be reseting fine now, haven't put the gun back together yet. Gonna look around youtube and see if there is a tutorial on how to take the frame apart to make sure that everything is dry and oiled. If all else fails I'll spray it down pretty good with remoil and call it a night.
So, any ideas? I don't really want to get rid of the gun since it belonged to dad and he always wanted me to have it but I didn't like it because of the small size. I'd like to figure a way to keep it up and if doing this pressure wash on it every time I get it home from the range is the only way then that's what I'll do.
Something about the gun was not letting it reset fully. Even if I let the trigger slam forward under it's own tension, the thing doesn't want to reset fully all of the time. Got to talking with an older fellow at the range and he presented his Ruger LCR. Both guns are pretty much copies of eachother though his had less tendency to try to jump out of my hands, probably the pierce grip extensions at work but maybe other things.
Anyways, on his LCR, when you let of the trigger after firing it makes two distinct clicks as the trigger resets for DAO. The P3AT refused to reset fully on a couple of occassions and I was basically fiddling the trigger with my trigger finger until it would finally stick and hold pressure again before firing.
Asside from the stovepipes with dad's remmington fmj ammo, no other problems were noted, and one I got used to the double click it wasn't so bad.
Basically, is there a spring that I can stretch a little somewhere or any kind of work I can do to the trigger to make it reset a little easier. I had a look around and could only find references to people complaining about this problem on the P3AT, no fixes as of yet in my search.
Broke down the gun and cleaned it, then took the frame and flushed it with hot soapy water. The trigger seems to be reseting fine now, haven't put the gun back together yet. Gonna look around youtube and see if there is a tutorial on how to take the frame apart to make sure that everything is dry and oiled. If all else fails I'll spray it down pretty good with remoil and call it a night.
So, any ideas? I don't really want to get rid of the gun since it belonged to dad and he always wanted me to have it but I didn't like it because of the small size. I'd like to figure a way to keep it up and if doing this pressure wash on it every time I get it home from the range is the only way then that's what I'll do.
