625PC Update w/ Range Report

[Jerry N.]

I've written a few comments/threads about my performance center 625 and my minor disappointment with the gun. Well today, I think I'm back on the right track and am very pleased with the gun. When I got the gun, it appeared that the hammer had hit the frame (see first picture). Comes to be that the hammer is hitting the frame and causing failure to fire's. So LGS has gunsmith and owner recommends letting him try to fix it vs. sending to S&W. I say okay and other than the wait (over two weeks), the gun comes back really nice and I'm happy - until I shoot the gun. Long story short, the screw that provides tension to the main spring has backed out and the gun was not firing consistently. I finish my range time and thankfully, gunsmith is there and goes right to the screw and tightens it. He says if I like the lighter trigger pull I'll need to get a longer firing pin. I'm okay with that, but first I want to see this gun work flawlessly before I modify anything. So I take the gun home, clean it and back to the Range today.

Well, I am now happy. Yes the pull is very heavy, but it's smooth and every round went bang. I shot about 100 rounds. My grouping was pretty good (see second picture). Six rounds at 10 yards. I am generally not that good of a shot but I was focusing and the gun did it's part. A couple more trips and I'll think about lightening up that trigger but if I didn't do anything more to the gun, I'd be happy with it.

 

[Whiskey_Sour]

Nice shooting, I'd be happy to shoot a group like that.

 

[David Sinko]

Perfect reliability is what you want but you don't have to live with an excessively heavy trigger pull. You can have the pull reduced slightly and still be completely reliable. I also feel that putting Loc-tite on the strain screw is an absolute necessity.

Why was the hammer hitting the frame and what was done to correct it? That kind of damage is an extreme case and I'm wondering what was out of whack, no pun intended.

Dave Sinko

 

[Smee78]

I would also like to know how the hammer problem was fixed, and backing the strain screw out is not the proper way to adj the trigger, sounds like the gun smith backed it out when he had it in his position.

 

[Jerry N.]

I don't know why the hammer hit the frame. I didn't ask what was fixed. I just wanted it to work. I know when I called that he had ordered parts and I believe he put in a new hammer. He also ground the frame smooth where that mark was. I'll ask what else he did next time I see him.

Does the hammer typically have a little play in it from side to side?