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TheKlawMan · June 13, 2012, 10:59 PM

I had an incident with my 6 month old Browning XS Skeet today. When I pulled the trigger the firing pin didn't fall.

I opened it, removed the good round, replaced it, closed it and switched the barrel selector from under to over and back to under. It fired and I had no more trouble shooting 100 shots, if we forget the misses.

I figure the problem was that when I got to the range, I fired a round of Remington home defense ammo from which I had removed the shot. I only dis so to dispose of the powder and discharge the primer before trashingit. While it had enough oomph to eject the wad from the barrel, I expect it somehow got the inertia trigger transfer hoop dee doo system convused.

June 13, 2012, 10:59 PM	#5
TheKlawMan Junior member Join Date: June 23, 2009 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 2,150	I had an incident with my 6 month old Browning XS Skeet today. When I pulled the trigger the firing pin didn't fall. I opened it, removed the good round, replaced it, closed it and switched the barrel selector from under to over and back to under. It fired and I had no more trouble shooting 100 shots, if we forget the misses. I figure the problem was that when I got to the range, I fired a round of Remington home defense ammo from which I had removed the shot. I only dis so to dispose of the powder and discharge the primer before trashingit. While it had enough oomph to eject the wad from the barrel, I expect it somehow got the inertia trigger transfer hoop dee doo system convused.