Air Arms Owners Club

Hi folks I hope some of your knowledgeable members can help as it was because of reading the posts on your old forum that i purchased an AA air rifle.
I purchased my air rifle new in Feb 2015 (a/r dom May 2014) and since then i would have fired a maximum of 7 or 8 magazines through it. I had been asked by a friend to sort out some feral pigeons at a local farm so i went to fire a check zero before i would carry out this task. I fired 2 shots at a paper target but when i was squeezing off the 3rd shot nothing happened, I removed the mag and tried recocking and firing off the action but nothing happened, i tried recocking and firing again several times before i gave up. I now have an air rifle with a pellet in the breech. Is there anything simple i can try before it has to be sent back to Air Arms to get sorted. By the way i did not double load the a/r.

Take the stock off and open the side trigger plate. Check to see if all the sears are intact.

BBF

Blackbaronfish wrote:Take the stock off and open the side trigger plate. Check to see if all the sears are intact.

BBF

See this thread

gdavison wrote:Turned out the S320-2 TOP SEAR had snapped in half.. As Mark suggested seems a batch problem as based upon my 30 second description of the problem AA sent that exact and only part to the RFD who fitted it for me

It's all in http://www.airarmsownersclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3148 including the solution.

Just to update the kind people for pointing me in the right direction for solving this problem.
I stripped the air rifle and removed the trigger mech housing plate, the two bottom sears were in the fired position but the top sear was still holding, so i pointed the air rifle in a safe direction and tripped the top sear with a screwdriver, which fired off the action and cleared the barrel of the previously loaded pellet. I inspected the sears but i could not see any cracks so i put all back together, i then fired off 3 full mags, so 30 pellets later the air rifle cycled without any further problems. I still do not know what caused the problem in the first place and the only thing i am worried about is that the same problem could occur some time in the future.

If you are saying there was no sear overlap and the top sear was just hanging, with FAC weapon that was a fatal accident waiting to happen. Maybe the sear spring is not man enough to overcome the stronger FAC hammer spring (is there a different sear spring for FAC anyone? ) or maybe the sear pivot is a bit tight but if it happens again it needs some light gunsmithing IMO.