Light primer strikes

[ZZRguy]

A friend from church has a Rossi single shot 30.06, and he went to shoot it and it not fire, he tried three cartridges with no luck. He brought them to me and I looked at them and it looked like they had light primer strikes. I think it has a weak spring or a bad firing pin in it. I shot the cartridges in my gun and they worked fine.

I have not seen his gun, is it hard to change a spring or firing pin? Thanks, Charles

[ZZRguy]

Bump

[Raoul]

Is the weapon clean?

[ZZRguy]

Yes, He has only fired the gun a few times.

[Guest jth_3s]

I had the same problem with a .22 rifle I had. It just needed a new firing pin the one in my rifle was easy to change but Im not sure about his. You can order parts at www.e-gunparts.com

[Guest mikedwood]

If he has only fired it a few times, it still might need cleaned. Factory gook and what

have you. I think Raoul ment stripped to the bone and cleaned. Take all the little parts out and break it down completely.

While you or him are doing that you can slide a new firing pin in there in place of the old one.

Factory gook can get pretty thick.

[TNRobocop]

Chances are on a pretty new gun, that the firing pin is okay. However, factory grease and whatnot can be getting in the loops of the spring or between the hammer and spring, causing the light primer strikes.

Good cleaning and "maybe" a new firing pin spring sound in order.

[Good_Steward]

Agreed with Mike and TPS. First thing a new gun needs, before anything else, is a good cleaning. You'd be surprised at the "goo" that comes out of a factory new gun.

[ZZRguy]

Thanks for the replies.

[Guest joeharris]

What type of ammo was he having light strikes on? 10 yrs. i bought a CZ 527 nib in 7.62x39, had no problem with any USA made ammo, but on any

military ammo had 1 in 3 FTF problem's, CZ had gotten many complaint's and replaced the spring in the fir. pin.

US made comm. ammo has a lighter primer, mainly in x 39 and thus it is very easy to have an acc. discharge in a AK or Sks, when using comm. ammo!

[ZZRguy]

What type of ammo was he having light strikes on? 10 yrs. i bought a CZ 527 nib in 7.62x39, had no problem with any USA made ammo, but on any

military ammo had 1 in 3 FTF problem's, CZ had gotten many complaint's and replaced the spring in the fir. pin.

US made comm. ammo has a lighter primer, mainly in x 39 and thus it is very easy to have an acc. discharge in a AK or Sks, when using comm. ammo!

He was using Remington brand name.

[TNRobocop]

What can happen is that the grease it was shipped with can harden. Especially weapons built overseas tend to be overly greased compared to how american weapons are lubed when they leave the factory.

[Guest joeharris]

If he was using remington, then there is a problem, somewhere, i would clean pin,spring and channel and if that does not help, call the comp. an see if any others had the same problems!

[Raoul]

If he was using remington, then there is a problem, somewhere, i would clean pin,spring and channel and if that does not help, call the comp. an see if any others had the same problems!

+1. I've seen issues with handguns that FTF because the striker channel is dirty or gunked up with factory grease. A clean gun is a happy gun. Of course I like the smell of Hoppes in the morning.

[Ghooge2008]

I had the same problem out of a brand new pt111 taurus millenium, turns out I should have cleaned it before going shooting, light strikes on WWB, took it home cleaned it and it had some goo instead of lube in it from the factory, worked fine after some cleaner and remoil.