IceDragon64

Just an update: I figured out what the problem was. I had to take a couple of thousandths off the shoulders on the interrupter, change the angle slightly, and polish the engagement surfaces to achieve better contact. It runs like a top now. Thank you for your responses. Cha-Lee, I appreciate your response, and I understand you don't want to try to diagnose the problem either on the internet, or without some pics. However, I wasn't asking for a diagnosis, but merely asking if anyone else has had the same problem, and what they did to correct it. That being said, I do appreciate your input and I respect your last response. Thank you.

Thanks magpulled, I appreciate it. I'll give it another going over. I got to looking at it earlier, and it seems the interrupter (disco on a CZ), is not fully engaging the trigger bar. I've watched Bob Dunlap go over the CZ 75, which is what the Witness is designed after, and he mentioned working the angles of the contact surfaces for better engagement. The Tanfo TZ 75 was almost a complete clone of the CZ, and IMHO, had a better trigger design than the Witness series. Anyway, I very much appreciate your input.

Thanks, Cha-Lee, but that's exactly what I'm trying to keep from doing. I want to do this myself.

I have thought about completely replacing the internals with new parts from Patriot Defense or Ben Stoeger, but that is cost prohibitive right now. I can carry my 4" Model 29 with .44 Special loads until I can find a solution, but it prints like a neon Picasso.

I have tried everything, including the trigger return spring, but nothing seems to work. I have no problems with the SA reset, but the DA reset is driving me crazy.

I have a problem with my .45 ACP Witness. The trigger does not reset for double-action. I can sometimes get it to reset, but only if I let the trigger snap back when it is pulled fully rearward. It will not reset by just letting it move forward on its own. If I the hammer falls on a weak primer in single-action, I have to let the trigger snap back to the double-action position, and that doesn't always work. I have swapped the interrupter out, tried different springs, swapped out sears and polished everything trying to correct this, but nothing works to correct this. This is my carry gun, and I want it to be more dependable. Does anyone have any ideas of how to correct this?

One other thing, his slide and barrel will fit perfectly on my frame, but my .45 slide and barrel will only go half way into the rails on his frame. If he gets another slide and barrel, other than just switching to a 9mm barrel, it will have to be fitted to the frame.

If I can get the whole pic sized down, I'll post the whole pic.

Kneelingatlas, that is pretty much it, except his is matte blue, and the outside of the magwell is a little shorter from the bottom up. Other than that, and the cheaper factory sights, the slide serrations, his are the thin line serrations, and the checkered walnut grips, that is the same pistol.

Jsuki, as I stated before, due to the 0.49MB size limit, I'll have to convert the single pic into a jigsaw puzzle, lol.

Due to the .49 MB file size limit, I will have to convert the single pic to a jigsaw puzzle, lol.

Howdy y'all!!! I've been a member here for a while, but this is I believe my first post. Back in May of this year, my son bought this Witness for his first handgun. I have had several Pre and Post EAA pistols, and I am a big fan of them, so I recommended he get one for his first handgun. After passing on the 1996 Witness in .45 that I now own, he he opted for this one, as he has heard a lot of good things about the .38 Super, mainly from me. I also knew that he wouldn't blow a lot of his money on ammo, due to the fact that in the area where we live, .45 is cheaper than .38 Super. BTW, he's tighter than Dick's hatband with his money, and that's a good thing. Anyway, I did find that his was made in 1995, but that's about all I have found out about it. It appears to be a semi-competition pistol, although the trigger is rougher than I-81 going through Virginia. The interrupter has a ridge in the middle of it, so it keeps popping out of place in DA. I have tried to polish this out when I smoothed the trigger out for him. I have since bought a new interrupter from Ben Stoeger, along with a lighter weight trigger bar plunger spring, as he doesn't like the factory weight. I will work on different hammer springs after I finish with the trigger. This pistol has a squared and checkered triggerguard (both front and underside are checkered), checkered front strap, checkered back strap, competition style grips (plain Witness grips won't fit, they are too long), cheaper factory fixed rear sights and the usual solid front sight. According to EAA, the pistol did not come with the frame drilled and tapped, but this one has three holes on the left side, as opposed to Tanfoglio's four holes per side. The holes do not look like they were done by a gunsmith, as the finish in the holes is the same as the rest of the matte blue frame, and the holes are evenly spaced, so as to not take out the Witness name, or any of the other markings. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would sure appreciate it. BTW, he is twenty-two, and has too many "important things to do" other than let me get more pics of his pistol. This is the only pic I have at the moment. Thanks