P-64 won't fire in double action.
Posted: July 15th, 2016, 10:38 am
Hey guys, I'm new here and I need your help.
I picked up a 1972 P-64 from Classic Firearms on Wednesday, and I finally took it shooting yesterday. The gun won't fire on double action mode, it's as if the safety were still on. The trigger has no resistance, and the hammer does not move at all. Talk about double action being your safety.
What confuses me about the whole thing is that without a round in the chamber it function checks perfectly. On both double and single action it will launch a pencil placed in the barrel across the room with a nice firing pin indent on the eraser. So it works fine, until you put a round in the chamber. Once it's loaded it has the problems I described. Single action is fine, if I don't decock the pistol it works, but it's as if you left the safety on in double action mode.
And yes, I cleaned it. I did a field strip with cleaning before I took it out, and last night I completely disassembled and cleaned the slide and disassembled and cleaned the frame to the sear. Exact same problem persists.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me, I appreciate it.
I picked up a 1972 P-64 from Classic Firearms on Wednesday, and I finally took it shooting yesterday. The gun won't fire on double action mode, it's as if the safety were still on. The trigger has no resistance, and the hammer does not move at all. Talk about double action being your safety.
What confuses me about the whole thing is that without a round in the chamber it function checks perfectly. On both double and single action it will launch a pencil placed in the barrel across the room with a nice firing pin indent on the eraser. So it works fine, until you put a round in the chamber. Once it's loaded it has the problems I described. Single action is fine, if I don't decock the pistol it works, but it's as if you left the safety on in double action mode.
And yes, I cleaned it. I did a field strip with cleaning before I took it out, and last night I completely disassembled and cleaned the slide and disassembled and cleaned the frame to the sear. Exact same problem persists.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me, I appreciate it.