Evening gang: (I've posted on this before but no amount of searching is turning up the thread)
Looking for some insights and perhaps a reference to a decent smith to take a look at this Citori. It's a Special Steel model chambered for 3 inch shells, the gun was bought new in the mid 90's and has been in our family ever since. What is happening is that on the second shot be it one the top or bottom barrel there is occasionally a distinct pause bordering on FTF (fail to fire) for a moment, the round does go off a second or so later almost like the hammer is dragging or hanging up and not falling cleanly.
I've taken the stock off and de-greased the action and re-lubed appropriately, this has improved things in that the condition doesn't occur as frequently as it was but is still happening once in a while maybe 2 rounds out of a 100 fired. I would like to solve this once and for all as the gun means a lot to me, it was my Dad's first O/U.
I found this info below and wonder if a deeper cleaning is needed or something more involved that would need a smith to handle such as the sear tolerance referenced in the quote below.
Another solution a few have suggested is to replace the original inertia based trigger with a mechanical one from Briley or another manufacturer I can't recall the name of at the moment. No one has been able to give me a cost to get this done, wondering if any of you CGN'ers have an idea of what kind of ballpark this would be in money wise and whether it's the ultimate solution to eliminate this as a problem altogether.
Looking for some insights and perhaps a reference to a decent smith to take a look at this Citori. It's a Special Steel model chambered for 3 inch shells, the gun was bought new in the mid 90's and has been in our family ever since. What is happening is that on the second shot be it one the top or bottom barrel there is occasionally a distinct pause bordering on FTF (fail to fire) for a moment, the round does go off a second or so later almost like the hammer is dragging or hanging up and not falling cleanly.
I've taken the stock off and de-greased the action and re-lubed appropriately, this has improved things in that the condition doesn't occur as frequently as it was but is still happening once in a while maybe 2 rounds out of a 100 fired. I would like to solve this once and for all as the gun means a lot to me, it was my Dad's first O/U.
I found this info below and wonder if a deeper cleaning is needed or something more involved that would need a smith to handle such as the sear tolerance referenced in the quote below.
Another solution a few have suggested is to replace the original inertia based trigger with a mechanical one from Briley or another manufacturer I can't recall the name of at the moment. No one has been able to give me a cost to get this done, wondering if any of you CGN'ers have an idea of what kind of ballpark this would be in money wise and whether it's the ultimate solution to eliminate this as a problem altogether.
