Opening issue

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow

I may be wrong, but without dropping the hammers, the sears will exert downward pressure and it may make the safety operated manually forward and opened with the lever have little or no resistance, but having dropped both hammers, and then opening have greater resistance as the trigger is now in a more upward position, not held in check by the cocked sears.

The best test would be to do it both ways, first without having fired on snap caps, push the safety off to see if it is harder when opening, and then back and open to see if there is not the hitch anymore.

Then try it after firing, and feeling for the hitch when opening. If it is greater it is the safety lever meeting resistance as it is pushed over the trigger.

Brian can easily fix any problems.

Jerry,

Yes, it is possible that the hammer position can potentially come into play as you describe. Ideally it would not, but you never know.
John did reach out to me yesterday and he is supposed to be getting the gun to me to see what is going on. I will report back on this thread with my findings. I am curious to see what is going on myself.