Hello,
a friend of mine has a problem with his Hammerli in .22LR caliber. Maybe you could help him in solving this.
The problem is: pistol is shooting series ("doubles") on stronger ammuniton (no elaboration, stronger 'brand' or unequal, stronger single round).
As there are several of us using Hammerli SP20 RRS in .22 and .32 (separately for each caliber, with no conversion kits) we have already tried everything - changing parts and observing no change. This guy have changed whole trigger module, springs, recoil buffer.. We tried to "build on from two" guns with no success (still shooting doubles sometimes). Seemed to be better after exchanging the firing pin, but finally the problem still persist... when using stronger ammo ;-(
Have no idea what to do. Any piece of advice would be appreciated.
Rgrds,
zwz
Hammerli SP20 shooting series - advice needed
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zwz
Ed,
We've checked changing firing pin only as well as whole slide also. We've made so many tests that I don't remember all of them ;-) AFAIR the affected SP20 worked fine with parts from mine pistol... but I'm sure that the pistol of mine worked perfectly with any part from the affected one.
This is the reason that we haven't recognised any single part as the source of the problem.
Quest1,
I saw on this forum similar case described by randy1952 and jjgun, but as they've mentioned about "full auto" we hoped that it's not the same case as double-fires (they had to replace the barrels).
As english is not my mother tongue (and the "pistol language" is not commonnly used in work) I'm not sure what exactly have you had to raplace in your Hammerli.
Could you confirm whether the replaced part(s) were numbers 44, 48 from the manual? (like on page 3, could be found among others on http://stevespages.com/pdf/hammerli_sp20.pdf) or point out the correct ones.
Keeping my fingers crossed that it's something smaller and easier to change that the main parts of the pistol.
We've checked changing firing pin only as well as whole slide also. We've made so many tests that I don't remember all of them ;-) AFAIR the affected SP20 worked fine with parts from mine pistol... but I'm sure that the pistol of mine worked perfectly with any part from the affected one.
This is the reason that we haven't recognised any single part as the source of the problem.
Quest1,
I saw on this forum similar case described by randy1952 and jjgun, but as they've mentioned about "full auto" we hoped that it's not the same case as double-fires (they had to replace the barrels).
As english is not my mother tongue (and the "pistol language" is not commonnly used in work) I'm not sure what exactly have you had to raplace in your Hammerli.
Could you confirm whether the replaced part(s) were numbers 44, 48 from the manual? (like on page 3, could be found among others on http://stevespages.com/pdf/hammerli_sp20.pdf) or point out the correct ones.
Keeping my fingers crossed that it's something smaller and easier to change that the main parts of the pistol.
You need to recover some of the cases from the doubles to see if they have normal firing pin indentations in them.
If they have no firing pins indentations then it's probably headspace (too small will cause a slam fire).
If they have firing pin indentations, then check the firing pin is not sticking in the slide (also causing slam fires) and/or look for a cause of the hammer following the slide forward (this will be cause by trigger mechanism problems).
Also, try loading only one in the mag and fire it. Can you then dry fire the next? Or has the hammer followed the slide forward?
If they have no firing pins indentations then it's probably headspace (too small will cause a slam fire).
If they have firing pin indentations, then check the firing pin is not sticking in the slide (also causing slam fires) and/or look for a cause of the hammer following the slide forward (this will be cause by trigger mechanism problems).
Also, try loading only one in the mag and fire it. Can you then dry fire the next? Or has the hammer followed the slide forward?
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zwz
j-team
We've done some test, but surprisingly we haven't noticed any double fires this time ;-?
In the beginning of our practise we have checked a lot of things including taking out the firing pin. Maybe we've inserted the conex pin (part 44/48 mentioned above) in a little different rotation and maybe this influenced better pistol behaviour...
It's good that there was no problem (hope to see this also on shooting conquests) but we've got no any cases from the doubles recovered ;-(
Firing pin (new one) is clear and not sticking in the slide. Firing mechanism (also changed to a new one) working correctly also.
We've done some test, but surprisingly we haven't noticed any double fires this time ;-?
In the beginning of our practise we have checked a lot of things including taking out the firing pin. Maybe we've inserted the conex pin (part 44/48 mentioned above) in a little different rotation and maybe this influenced better pistol behaviour...
It's good that there was no problem (hope to see this also on shooting conquests) but we've got no any cases from the doubles recovered ;-(
Firing pin (new one) is clear and not sticking in the slide. Firing mechanism (also changed to a new one) working correctly also.