NAA mini hammer down on notch question

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TennJed

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My understanding of the NAA minis is that the hammer mounted firing pin rest on a notch and not on the chamber allowing it to be carried with a full cylinder. I have a 22lr only mini and while looking at it unloaded it seems the notch is in between the chambers, but when I put the hammer down ad look down the barrel (unloaded) the chamber is lined up with the barrel. This leads me to believe that the firing pin is resting on the chamber. If I try to lower the hammer down on the notch the cylinder is not lock and if you wiggle it, it rotates to the chamber being lined up with the barrel again.

Is this normal. Would it work different if loaded (don't understand how). Is something wrong?
 
This is not normal. With the hammer down in the notch between chambers the cylinder is not free to rotate. I owned a .22lr mini for a short time and IIRC it took a bit of fiddling to get the hammer to index properly on a notch but once in place it held the cylinder from turning whether loaded or not.
 
NAA mini problem

It sounds like you're not lowering the hammer into notch,but on the safety notch of the hammer. The hammer must be lowered with your finger still on the trigger(carefully). Once the hammer is in the notch you should be able,when looking from the back, see half a cartridge base on each side of the frame. I've carried one like this for 20 years or more. Bill
 
It should look like this with the firing pin (blade) sitting in the correct notch. Note that you can see about half the cartridge.

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Practice with the little revolver UNLOADED until you can reliably get it set correctly. This is not to say there may not be something wrong with yours, but getting things in the right place can be tricky and requires practice, so, good luck.

Will
 

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Got it figured out. It took some playing around to figure it out. Wasn't fully letting it down so it was not catching in the notch. As noted I had to keep the trigger depressed the whole time I was lowering it to get it to actually catch in the notch

Thanks for the help
 
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