Well that didn't go as planed.

WalnutRed said:

Took my recently purchased ASM 60 Army to the range yesterday. Test firing with 25 gns of 3fg and a .454 RB went as expected. Decent group at 25', 6" high but centered. Then it swallowed a spent cap. I could not clear the cap and the action locked up. Took it home and disassembled the revolver and cleaned it. I cod not find any debris but the end of the trigger which engages the hammer notch was badly deformed and had a burr. I stoned the trigger back into the correct shape and it seems to be cycling fine. It will be Wednesday before I can get back to the range but the revolver seemed to function fine while being test fired in my wood shed.

I cant imagine a fired cap wedging in tight enough to deform the trigger tip but don't know what else could have caused the damage. Anyone else run into this problem?

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Salt River Johnny said:

When firing your revolver.
Pull trigger.
Raise pistol tilt it side wase to the right just a bit the cap should fall out as you cock the pistol again.That was the way it was done so the cap would hopefully fall out.

I use this process repeatedly with out fail.
Sorry your cap got jammed. Good luck.

Salt River Johnny

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WalnutRed said:

I did buy this used but the action seemed fine on initial inspection. However unless the trigger was not properly hardened from the factory I have a hard time imagining a spent cap damaging the sear nose. Next time I place a parts order a trigger will be on the list.

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