1911 Guru's, Help me with a concern.

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I purchased a unded Norinco 1911. Finish is crap, looks like someone removed the original blueing in an attempt to refinish the gun, but did not. All original parts, except for the mainspring housing which is a flat one. All safety and function checks are alright. Here is the problem (concern) that I have: When the hammer is cocked, you can pull the trigger slightly, before the hammer falls the hammer moves forward and stops. If you continue to pull, it drops the hammer like it is supposed to. So, hammer is cocked, you start to pull the trigger, before the hammer falls it moves slightly forward.

Is this a problem with the hammer, sear or both?
Or
Am I worried about nothing.
 
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Someone tried to do a trigger job and got the angles wrong. the cost of a new, precision, name brand trigger and sear set is low enough to warrant just tossing the others. Yes you can reset the angles with careful stoning. But it would need the correct shop fixture to hold them at the correct angle in order to re-stone them at the correct angle. Sometimes the angles are bad and to release the sear you have to actually lift the hammer, sometimes they are bad and when you pull the trigger the hammer slides off the sear slowly and seems to fall slowly then drop as the sear releases.
 
Yes, it is a problem. The only reason you don't have hammer follow and/or full auto function right now is that there is a ton of pressure on the sear leg of the spring. If you haven't fired it I wouldn't.

Have a new hammer and sear fitted to the gun and while the gunsmith is working on it have him check out everything else.
 
Thanks a million guys. I had not planned on firing it until the problem was addressed. I have an extra hammer, trigger and sear that I may try to put it in. Otherwise, friday, it will be at the smithy. Next problem, find someone to refinish it, hell its a nork, but I may send it to Tripps for a hardchrome:D
 
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Dear Sior:
Norinco is a great pistol - the only problem being the parts are very hard. With Chinese tools,- everything heat-treated they tend to get them on the "hard" side.
The Norinco, I always had to bring the front of the slide to a "grey" color before I could mill the dovetail for a front dovetail sight.
Other than that they are pretty good copies of the 1911 and parts are as interchangeable as possible.
Yea, they need polished up a bit, but that's the fun of it - "making a silk purse out of a sows ear."
Harry B.
 
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