Firing pins on raven 9

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Personally have had a on going issue with broken firing pins on my raven 9mm

No longer dry fire for practice. And try to slowly lower the bolt in an empty chamber.

Some times it will make 800 -1000 rounds and had a few that make it to 300 ish

Bolt has been hollowed for a maxim RDB but issue remains.

I’m thinking it’s maybe the trigger tech competition trigger. Seems Hiper fire triggers don’t break pins or have far fewer breakages.

Looking for some feedback back on folks that have had breakages or round counts before breakages. And what trigger they are running.
 
I have just over 600rds through my raven 9 and no problems with the firing pin yet, but your based off your experience i guess i should pick up a few.I very rarely dry fire so that might be saving it.
So far after the break in which the raven most definitely has and people should be aware that this rifle requires a small investment of time and money to get it to function 100%.
After the first 150rds and failures to feed it has been perfect since, I'm starting to like it honestly. I wish it would run hollow points.

I will crab it lately to take on my property bush walks and just plinking. Its well built and just a bit more money than some other pcc's.
 
What does your bolt look like now? Can the firing pin contact the Maxim when the bolt hits the very end of rearward travel?
It is somewhat of a known issue.
 
There’s a conversation about this in the raven owners bookface group where someone spoke to 7 others who broke firing pins and they were all using triggertechs, then of 4 people that switched triggers to something else only one has broken a pin since. Obviously this is super anecdotal evidence, but thought I’d let you know.
 
Ex3dy said:
What does your bolt look like now? Can the firing pin contact the Maxim when the bolt hits the very end of rearward travel?
It is somewhat of a known issue.
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There is a 9/16 bore down the rear center now. It’s short stroked so the maxim center guide rod is no where close to making contact.
 
tonykimatpl said:
whats the point of having the canted red dot if your primary is also a red dot?
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For weak side leans. If you have to shoot around a barricade or wall it’s far easier to have a canted dot. As a right handed shooter if I lean left and then tilt the rifle left that dot makes shooting and target acquisition way faster than switching whole rifle to my weak side
 
mctrigger said:
There is a 9/16 bore down the rear center now. It’s short stroked so the maxim center guide rod is no where close to making contact.
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Well my next thought would be that the hammer is contacting the firing pin in a way that puts pressure on the firing pin that is not inline with the bore axis. There are some reports of trigger techs not reliably functioning in some AR9s also so the geometry is questionable. Do you get bolt bounce?
It could always be the old material hardness problem too.
 
Ex3dy said:
Well my next thought would be that the hammer is contacting the firing pin in a way that puts pressure on the firing pin that is not inline with the bore axis. There are some reports of trigger techs not reliably functioning in some AR9s also so the geometry is questionable. Do you get bolt bounce?
It could always be the old material hardness problem too.
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That’s my thought. Although I have nothing to compare to. But like you say. I think there is contact at the bottom of the pin first. Torquing it up and eventually breaking it.
 
does the firing pin break on the narrow part of the pin? I just recently got my Raven 9, it's not brand new by any means, It has a few thousand rounds down it atleast and was used in IPSC PCC, it has an elftmann trigger in it since near conception I belive, and the previous owner(good friend) told me he never broke a pin but gave me a spare with it. So there could be some good Merritt on it being a TT problem. I seen Taylor's post about it as well on FB, also had read on here Lockhart had said they weren't properly heat treated as well, but that is heresay.
 
mctrigger said:
For weak side leans. If you have to shoot around a barricade or wall it’s far easier to have a canted dot. As a right handed shooter if I lean left and then tilt the rifle left that dot makes shooting and target acquisition way faster than switching whole rifle to my weak side
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Do you have them sighted in for the same range or different?
 
dakota123 said:
Do you have them sighted in for the same range or different?
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Same zero. Just there for weak side shooting. That ability to maintain a good grip and cheek weld on a hard left lean is rare but important and that offset makes an absolute tangible advantage there. Also if my main dot dies mid stage I’m not just winging it. Haha.
 
My dirty bird is still rocking the stock mil spec trigger and as stated I very rarely dry fire and I do let the bolt close hard. But my round count is low compared to you Comp guys.
 
Smokinyotes said:
My Raven 9 broke the firing pin at about 600 rounds and it has a trigger tech diamond trigger.
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If you’re not one of the people who I’ve already asked about pin breaks in the Owners group then our current count is

15 breaks with TT triggers
2 breaks with Geissele
0 with anything else
 
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