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Shotgun won't fire

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  • 22-09-2015 9:11pm
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    BrownTrout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭


    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?


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    Deaf git
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭Deaf git


    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.


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    shotie
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭shotie


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


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    Zenner
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Zenner


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


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    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


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

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



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    skipking
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭skipking


    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.


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    BrownTrout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭BrownTrout


    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.


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    skipking
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭skipking


    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.


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    FISMA.
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭FISMA.


    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.


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    juice1304
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    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.


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    skipking
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭skipking


    let us know how you get on.


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    BrownTrout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭BrownTrout


    Sorted, it was a broken leaf spring


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