War Eagle
09-11-2011, 09:27 AM
Took the SP101 to a local indoor range tonight. This was the first time shooting this brand new revolver. It is a 3" .357mag. I only had some 148 wadcutters loaded pretty light in .38spl cases so that is what went with.
Playing around with it at the house, I noticed a slight catch midway through the double action pull while dry firing. I didn't think much of it and figured it would polish out with wear through use. Got to the range, loaded up, thumbed the hammer back and all went well. Proceeded to fire the next round in DA and midway through the pull, the gun locked up. It caught me off guard and I relieved my finger from the trigger. Wondering what it was, I thumbed the hammer back again and pulled the trigger again. It fired as expected. I tried DA again and again the gun locked up.
This went on for about 15 or so rounds--about enough for me to get disgusted and move on to other guns.
I got home and tore it down to look at the hammer and sear. I was hoping to spot an obvious burr or something but nothing looked suspect.
Playing with it at home, even dry firing on dummy rounds, failed to reproduce the jam. Although the hitch midway through the DA pull is still there. Evidently there is something specific to the DA pull after firing that causes the jam.
Does anybody have any clue about this that they could offer solutions prior to me shipping this back to the factory?
Playing around with it at the house, I noticed a slight catch midway through the double action pull while dry firing. I didn't think much of it and figured it would polish out with wear through use. Got to the range, loaded up, thumbed the hammer back and all went well. Proceeded to fire the next round in DA and midway through the pull, the gun locked up. It caught me off guard and I relieved my finger from the trigger. Wondering what it was, I thumbed the hammer back again and pulled the trigger again. It fired as expected. I tried DA again and again the gun locked up.
This went on for about 15 or so rounds--about enough for me to get disgusted and move on to other guns.
I got home and tore it down to look at the hammer and sear. I was hoping to spot an obvious burr or something but nothing looked suspect.
Playing with it at home, even dry firing on dummy rounds, failed to reproduce the jam. Although the hitch midway through the DA pull is still there. Evidently there is something specific to the DA pull after firing that causes the jam.
Does anybody have any clue about this that they could offer solutions prior to me shipping this back to the factory?