Firing Pin Retainer on Tactical Sport

[phoenixsomd]

I was at the range today for a practice session when I had a strange (for me) thing occur with my Tactical Sport.  The slide seemed to lock-back but the firing pin retainer had "slipped" down past it's proper position and caught the hammer thus holding the slide from moving back into battery.  It had moved about half the diameter of firing pin downward and was still keeping the FP in it's channel.  I was easy to slide it back into place.

Has anyone else ever experienced this?

I won't get to take her apart till I get home later but, clearly something is keeping the FP forward in the channel such as the FP spring being broken. 

[m2oore]

I have had this happen when I changed out my firing pin with an extended firing pin...which required me to change out the firing pin spring which was lighter then stock...this caused the issue you described.  I would check that spring and see if it needs to be replaced.

[phoenixsomd]

Thanks. We'll see tomorrow AM

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[huskerlrrp]

I had that happen with a light firing pin spring (also on a TS slide). I went back to factory rate and it never has been an issue.

Edited August 21, 2016 by huskerlrrp

[phoenixsomd]

It's odd because I have the same setup on my older TS and have had no problems with it...

Definitely going back to the OEM FPS