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Re: G1 Contender, not able to cock [message #34425 is a reply to message #34420] Sat, 06 December 2014 08:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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G-1's will still COCK if the interlock safety isn't SET. It won't FIRE unless the interlock safety is set either by manually setting the interlock safety (the butterfly), or having been set by the locking bolts on the barrel engaging far enough to set it. So you are wrong on that point.
Without being "set" (the interlock safety) the hammer block safety won't drop out of the way. To actually fire (Firing pin struck), two conditions must be met, the trigger pulled, and the interlock safety being "set". Naturally if a barrel isn't mounted, there can be no live round present to "fire", but if manually set, the firing pin will be hit and go forward to strike a primer if it had been there.
Without a barrel on the frame, cock the trigger guard, and take a small screw-driver and push the LEFT side (right as you look at it from the front) and you can FEEL and hear it set. Let loose, it's still set even if it moves back forward. Pull the trigger and it will fall and hit the firing pin (DON'T let it or you'll damage the firing pin). Leave the manual safety set, so the firing pin won't be struck. The safety device will hit the frame (Peg on cross-bolt, front of lever on the swing-lever safeties). Un-set, it will NOT hit the firing pin or the manual safety, because the HBS didn't drop.
Jim

Note: What I find puzzling is IF you have a G-1, why didn't you take off the barrel and try to cock the hammer. If you had, you wouldn't have made that "theory". This is one reason that myths are born.

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