Nz-85 double action strange occurrence...

[saskgunowner101]

Anyone else ever have this happen?? When I dry fire my NZ-85, I've noticed it sometimes drops down to half #### position, when pulling in d.a.

It seems to happen more often when I deliberately put pressure to the side of the trigger. Anything I should be concerned about??

I haven't modified this pistol in any way, and I only do a basic field strip for cleaning. Thanks in advance.

 

[mooncoon]

I don't know the gun but it sounds like the hammer half #### is hanging up on the sear if you pull relatively slowly and I am guessing does not hang up if you pull the trigger sharply and harder.

cheers mooncoon

 

[Colin]

You can half #### the gun, i will try mine and see what happens.

 

[saskgunowner101]

It won't affect my life one way or the other, as I always slingshot or drop the slide, and go from single action.

mooncoon: Its the opposite of what you said. A quick pull makes it more likely to happen with my pistol. Gremlins I suppose.


Edit to add: I'm a lefty( the hand not the political bent) but I can't see this making a difference to the pistol.

 

[mooncoon]

mooncoon: Its the opposite of what you said. A quick pull makes it more likely to happen with my pistol. Gremlins I suppose..

Baffling why that would be, although the bottom line is that the trigger pull is creating friction somewhere. I have a double action saturday night special revolver whose hammer sticks when shot single action with a slow squeeze but fires with a sharp pull that brings the sear well clear. Had similar problems with some muzzle loading long guns.

cheers mooncoon

 

[Exoce†]

Happened to me at the range one day (mind you I was firing SA at the time). The first round would fire then it would hang up around half-#### on the next. I'd manually rack it and it would fire once and then hang again.

I stripped it and reassembled. Then the hammer would fall completely but it wouldn't fire.

After that it'd only fire consistently with 4 or 5 rounds in the magazine.

I tore it down completely when I got home and found that the spring on the firing pin safety lever had slid out of place. After taking apart the safety block and putting the spring back I haven't had any problems.

Still, I am totally baffled about the half-#### hangup. Looking closely it seemed like it had missed the half-#### sear and was stuck somewhere else. But I can say that it has something to do with the interplay between the firing pin safety and spring pressure from the magazine.

 

[Colin]

I also recommand replacing the hammer spring, makes a big differance just take care with that spring plate at the back of the magwell.