Problem With A Ruger Redhawk

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Easiest way to describe the problem is this: After the trigger is pulled once and the hammer drops, the gun won't "reset" properly unless you apply a bit of forward pressure to the trigger. If you don't, you can only pull the trigger back a little before everything "binds" up.

It literally started doing this out of the blue. I had gone on a flawless range trip prior to this. I tried a 100% takedown and cleaning but the problem is still present. My best guess is that the hammer spring has lost some tension. But that's just a guess and I'm no expert. If anyone has any idea what's going it would greatly be appreciated. I'll send it out for work if I have to, but I would prefer it if I didn't as I live up north.

Here's a video to show what I mean.
 
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You did a complete disassembly and nothing looked odd? Complete as in no assembles left assembled and all springs present and accounted for.... :)
So after pulling the trigger hammer drops, you release the trigger but it won't reset unless you push it forward.... Is something impeding the trigger from naturally resetting?
Sounds like the trigger return spring (can't remember if the red hawk has a separate return spring) or maybe one of the small springs around the pawl plunger?
 
looks like your cylinder is still locked up unless you manually push the trigger forward. If you have given everything a good cleaning and made sure the cylinder locking lug or the trigger is not binding, you may want to take it into a gunsmith and have the timing checked.
 
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Can-down said:
You did a complete disassembly and nothing looked odd? Complete as in no assembles left assembled and all springs present and accounted for.... :)
So after pulling the trigger hammer drops, you release the trigger but it won't reset unless you push it forward.... Is something impeding the trigger from naturally resetting?
Sounds like the trigger return spring (can't remember if the red hawk has a separate return spring) or maybe one of the small springs around the pawl plunger?
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Yep nothing looked odd at all. My dissasembly consisted of taking everything apart except for a few minor things like cylinder release. Other than that I took apart the hammer, trigger group and all the inner workings.
Another strange thing is that when I apply forward pressure on the trigger, it doesn't move. Its not like there's any wiggle room and the trigger can physically move forward more. Its rock solid and doesn't move in the slightest.
As well it doesn't have a separate trigger return spring. Just the hammer spring.
 
VanMan said:
looks like your cylinder is still locked up unless you manually push the trigger forward. If you have given everything a good cleaning and made sure the cylinder locking lug or the trigger is not binding, you may want to take it into a gunsmith and have the timing checked.
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If the timing is off would I have off centre primer strikes?
 
The pawl plunger spring went on my sp101 and it locked up the gun as well. The remaining bit of spring was very small and was lodged in place.
If all your springs are accounted for it seems a bit odd. Is the trigger housing well seated in the frame?
 
Can-down said:
The pawl plunger spring went on my sp101 and it locked up the gun as well. The remaining bit of spring was very small and was lodged in place.
If all your springs are accounted for it seems a bit odd. Is the trigger housing well seated in the frame?
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Seated as tight as she'll ever be. Everything appears to be completely normal on it. Nothing has come loose or started to give. This is why I'm super confused.
 
Getting the pawl spring and plunger into the trigger assembly was a bit of a process on my sp101, sort of a three hand operation... was it the same on the Redhawk?
 
Can-down said:
Getting the pawl spring and plunger into the trigger assembly was a bit of a process on my sp101, sort of a three hand operation... was it the same on the Redhawk?
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It was a bit of a to-do. Took a lot of finesse with my sausage fingers lol. However I'm fairly sure the process is a bit different on the Redhawk compared to the SP101. Just different internals. The standard Redhawk is the redheaded step child of the Ruger revolver family.
 
Is the transfer bar hanging up on the firing pin?

Aim/point the revolver straight up and see if it stills binds up.
 
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