Striker not resetting after firing ?

[gb6491]

Greg, I did not try pushing the striker back in but I did turn the gun over and pulled it back by the tab below the slide.with the P380, I just dry fired and pulled the slide to the rear locking it back and the striker is protruding from the breach face. Is this correct? It is hard to see but appears to be retracting upon release and going forward into battery.

No, that's not correct, but did you push the striker block in while pulling the tab back?

Greg, as far as my brothers PM45, after the jamming started I did completely break the slide down and clean, leaving striker channel dry , reassembled & lubed at recommended points ,fired the gun with the same problem. Have you heard of anyone else having this problem?

There have been some folks in the past that posted this happening (mainly with 380?). If I remember right some were fixed with a cleaning and some by reshaping the striker tip a bit. I also believe some were returned for repair.

On a side note, I think it might be possible that the extractor is holding the incoming round so tightly that it has no wiggle room so that when it hits the striker tip it stops instead of rocking over it and pushing the tip back in the slide (there should be nothing holding the striker forward at this point other than friction from the fit of the parts).
I think this mod to fix feeding issues on the 380s might help in this regards: http://www.kahrtalk.com/showthread.p...tery-on-CW-380

Regards,
Greg

[SKSears]

Greg ,I hope to have time tomorrow to work on this and see if that fix you referred to might take care of this. Thanks for your time & you welcoming me to the forum, Sears.

[gb6491]

Greg, I did not try pushing the striker back in but I did turn the gun over and pulled it back by the tab below the slide.with the P380, I just dry fired and pulled the slide to the rear locking it back and the striker is protruding from the breach face. Is this correct? It is hard to see but appears to be retracting upon release and going forward into battery.

No, that's not correct, but did you push the striker block in while pulling the tab back?

I'm sorry I must have read something into that which I wanted to see. What you wrote, "I just dry fired and pulled the slide to the rear locking it back and the striker is protruding from the breach face. Is this correct? It is hard to see but appears to be retracting upon release and going forward into battery.", is correct.
My apologies .
Regards,
Greg