Shotgun won't fire

BrownTrout · 22-09-2015 9:11pm #1

So the front trigger/right barrel fires fine,

Back trigger/left barrel has stopped. When I pull the trigger, I can't feel any tension and the firing pin doesn't come out the small hole. No noise coming from inside the gun when the trigger is pulled.

Any idea what's wrong or how I could fix it?

Deaf git · 22-09-2015 9:41pm

BrownTrout wrote: »

So the front trigger/right barrel fires fine,

Back trigger/left barrel has stopped. When I pull the trigger, I can't feel any tension and the firing pin doesn't come out the small hole. No noise coming from inside the gun when the trigger is pulled.

Any idea what's wrong or how I could fix it?

Unless you know your stuff I'd suggest you find a gunsmith.

shotie · 22-09-2015 9:57pm

id deff get a gunsmith to look at it, sounds like firing pin is gone to me

Zenner · 22-09-2015 10:16pm

Sounds like one of the main springs could be gone. It will have to be striped to confirm.

Grizzly 45 · 22-09-2015 10:31pm

I concur..Broken main spring.Common enough and not the hardest to sort out...Depending on make of course.

skipking · 23-09-2015 2:04pm

this happened to me years ago had to get it fixed in a gun shop. try firing the left barrel first as mine would fire
the left and then the right, but not the right and then left.

BrownTrout · 23-09-2015 5:30pm

skipking wrote:

this happened to me years ago had to get it fixed in a gun shop. try firing the left barrel first as mine would fire the left and then the right, but not the right and then left.

Thanks lads, she's a double trigger lad, doesn't matter what order you fire them, left one won't fire.

skipking · 23-09-2015 7:26pm

seems like a trigger problem, get it looked at as i think the second barrel is cocked or your firing pin would be out
and the gun would not close.

FISMA. · 23-09-2015 9:26pm

Probably a bad spring or pin, as mentioned.

BrownTrout wrote: »

No noise coming from inside the gun when the trigger is pulled.

On the slight chance that there's some kind of stiction going on, a good clean wouldn't hurt. Free too.

juice1304 · 24-09-2015 6:05pm

As said its probably the spring, although it could be a number of things you need to have someone that knows what they are doing to look at it.

skipking · 27-09-2015 12:07pm

let us know how you get on.

BrownTrout · 05-10-2015 8:23am

Sorted, it was a broken leaf spring

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