My son bought a PT92, the dual tone model. Is stainless and blued and looks really nice. Blued frame and stainless slide.
Anyway, he bought the gun and we took it to the range a couple of days ago. He fired it and just after he fired it for the first time, the trigger locked up.
He had to pull the trigger forward with his finger and then fired again. Locked up.
He could not shoot the gun without the trigger locking up in a fully pulled back position.
Well needless to say, he was highly disappointed and I was too but we brought it home (after he shot his 9mm Hipoint which never has failed) and we examined it thourghly.
After taking the gun apart and discussing should we just send it back after or attempt a repair, I looked to see what was wrong. I could get the trigger to bind/lockup after removing the trigger bar and the slide stop. So it wasn't anything in the rear of the gun.
It turns out that there was some bad machining in the trigger housing of the frame.
On the slide release side of the frame in the trigger housing, the metal was bumpy. Almost like they forgot to finish off the machining on that side. I took a fine metal file and smoothed it out and put the trigger back in place and tested the trigger. Seemed MUCH smoother and no more binding at all. I could then get the trigger to fall forward after pulling it back as hard as possible.
We then reassembled the gun completely and went to the range last night and fired off about 100 rounds. NO jams/bindings/problems whatsoever other than a single dud primer (HSM reload). He even tried double firing on that one round and no go but that looked totally like a problem with the ammo, not the gun in the least (the primer strike was very good). The gun was quite accurate and enjoyable to shoot after all.
But I'm just wondering, is this something that appears to happen with Taaurus guns? I was considering getting one for myself after seeing my boy's gun but that lack of finish machining really made me a tad nervous.
Anyway, he bought the gun and we took it to the range a couple of days ago. He fired it and just after he fired it for the first time, the trigger locked up.
He had to pull the trigger forward with his finger and then fired again. Locked up.
He could not shoot the gun without the trigger locking up in a fully pulled back position.
Well needless to say, he was highly disappointed and I was too but we brought it home (after he shot his 9mm Hipoint which never has failed) and we examined it thourghly.
After taking the gun apart and discussing should we just send it back after or attempt a repair, I looked to see what was wrong. I could get the trigger to bind/lockup after removing the trigger bar and the slide stop. So it wasn't anything in the rear of the gun.
It turns out that there was some bad machining in the trigger housing of the frame.
On the slide release side of the frame in the trigger housing, the metal was bumpy. Almost like they forgot to finish off the machining on that side. I took a fine metal file and smoothed it out and put the trigger back in place and tested the trigger. Seemed MUCH smoother and no more binding at all. I could then get the trigger to fall forward after pulling it back as hard as possible.
We then reassembled the gun completely and went to the range last night and fired off about 100 rounds. NO jams/bindings/problems whatsoever other than a single dud primer (HSM reload). He even tried double firing on that one round and no go but that looked totally like a problem with the ammo, not the gun in the least (the primer strike was very good). The gun was quite accurate and enjoyable to shoot after all.
But I'm just wondering, is this something that appears to happen with Taaurus guns? I was considering getting one for myself after seeing my boy's gun but that lack of finish machining really made me a tad nervous.
