Posted: 2/24/2010 2:39:01 PM EDT
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Had someone who I trust look over my 1911 bc it has over 10k through it now. He did a test where he put it on a table and locked the slide back and had nothing holding the gun but the table up and dropped the slide. The first time he did it the hammer fell to half cock. He did it a few more times and it did not follow. He told me that it is getting time to change the sear out.
I have never ever had a problem with the hammer following before. So should I take his advice and get a new sear or leave it be until a problem arises? |
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Quoted: Had someone who I trust look over my 1911 First question is why do you trust him? He did a test where he put it on a table and locked the slide back and had nothing holding the gun but the table up and dropped the slide.  .............. never heard of doing this. |
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Had someone who I trust look over my 1911 First question is why do you trust him? He did a test where he put it on atable and locked the slide back and had nothing holding the gun but thetable up and dropped the slide. .............. never heard of doing this.
Retired military, he said he was the units armorer. just wanting to know what everyone else thought of this. Any way to test it to see if the sear is going bad, its got me worried now 
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Could be trigger bounce and a couple of other things. A smith can quickly check the sear/hammer engagement but you can easily try to adjust the tension on the sear spring and see if that helps.
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Had someone who I trust look over my 1911 First question is why do you trust him? He did a test where he put it on atable and locked the slide back and had nothing holding the gun but thetable up and dropped the slide. .............. never heard of doing this.
Retired military, he said he was the units armorer. just wanting to know what everyone else thought of this. Any way to test it to see if the sear is going bad, its got me worried now |
| A good knife thats well used won't hold an edge forever. I have a sear in one 1911 thats been untouched for at least 20, 000 rounds. It could use a good stoning. You can only stone them so much and it's too short. Too short is not good and that is when you replace them. So, if your friend said your sear needed to be replaced did he take it out and inspect it ? Install it in a jig and gauge it ? |