Wife took my G1 Shield for her carry gun. Was modified with Apex trigger and Trijicon HDs. I put 500 rounds of HST through it before calling it good, and I can’t speak to how much it gets shot now, but it does go to the range and we haven’t had a single issue with it. I only lube the frame to slide contact points. Rest of gun is wiped with oiled rag both inside and out, but is nearly dry. I use Mil Comm TW2500 or FP10. It’s been two years since I have cleaned or lubed it, wife might have done it herself though.
Forward. If you stripped the gun…and was holding the frame in your hand & was pulling the trigger…exactly how it felt. No resistance, no reset, nothing. Everything feels as it should, gun has an awesome 5lb even trigger, as measured on my Timney gauge. Three of total have looked at it and cant find a thing wrong with it. Im gonna try some different things, kinda gonna use the gun as an experimental platform so to speak, before I trust it enough to carry.
Wow, sorry to hear about your intermittent issues. My 1st gen Shield has around 1000 rounds since I bought it in 2013ish, never had the problem you described. I think you might have discovered the problem with that super dirty striker tunnel. Hope it is the end of your non firing problems. I would hate for you to lose confidence in a good gun.
So even when you pulled the dead trigger and let go, it moved back and forth but failed to reset?
Just want to make sure im following.
Yes, thats it.
Don’t be offended by this question - did you confirm the sear disengagement lever was in the correct position?
Not at all offended. Short answer…no…but…how would it become dis-engaged during firing? Especially after 200 rounds had already been shot? Is this a “thing” with Shields? Again- a “gunsmith” supposedly looked it over and all they blamed it on was “too much petroleum product” in the gun.
I have no idea, but if you push it down into the disassembly position, does it not make the trigger act precisely as you described?
Inserting a magazine returns this to the normal position.
That said, it does exactly what the op experienced. If something broke or got wedged in or around this lever, could be the issue.
Right…IF something broke…the problem would then be repeatable. Im really thinking the crap I got out of the striker channel had something to do with it.
Ill def give an update after my next range trip, which might be this weekend. Keep the ideas & thoughts coming, and I appreciate the feedback gents!
I would check the small spring that sits under the sear. Not sure about the Shield, but the early generation full size/compact used a much smaller spring that Smith eventually made larger. A couple of my co workers had dead triggers and swapping the sear block with the version with the larger spring fixed them right away.