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Offline maleante

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SAO - Failure to reset, loose sear cage?
« on: August 30, 2019, 12:11:56 AM »
I have a 75 SA frame. FPB delete on the slide, shadow sear, shadow narrow hammer. The trigger bar return spring has plenty of pressure on the trigger bar. The SA trigger has both set screws removed currently. The gun dry fires perfectly and always resets.

When firing at the range I can only get 1-3 or so rds before failure to reset. The hammer locks back on the sear, but the trigger will not drop the hammer because the trigger does not actuate the sear. Once I was able to get an audible "click" reset by pulling the hammer back more - which allowed me to fire the gun. This is occurring about 50-75% of the time.

I am able to resolve this issue by doing the following: with the failure to reset and the hammer cocked and locked into the sear, I can use the tip of my knife to press on the sear thereby getting that audible click, which then allows me to fire the gun. I can also remove the slide and with the gun's failure to reset, but with hammer cocked and locked into the sear, I can press down on the sear cage (there is a slight gap between the rear sear cage "fingers" and the frame shelf that the sear fits into), by pressing down on the cage I get the same audible "click", which allows the gun to fire.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Offline tdogg

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Re: SAO - Failure to reset, loose sear cage?
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2019, 03:25:20 PM »
I'd assume that you need to adjust the reset timing by removing material from the face of the sear leg that contacts the trigger bar.  Here is a reference to a graphic showing the CZ actions:

https://czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=73586.0

Here is a reference to the different aspects of the sear and what they affect:

https://czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=19576.0

While these should help get you reliable, I have to comment that if you wanted to eliminate the safety features on the gun you probably should have just started with a Shadow in the first place.  Removing any factory safety mechanism makes the gun illegal in competition.

Another word of caution, the factory parts are case hardened.  Meaning that if you remove material, you are removing the wear resistance from the part.  I highly encourage you to fit a fully hardened CGW sear rather than fitting your case hardended shadow sear leg.  Our club recently had a Tangfolio gun go full auto injuring the owner due to modifications to the case hardened action components.

Cheers,
Toby

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