Carcano M41 safety problem

[Eaglelord17]

The safety on the Carcano has nothing to do with the sear/striker arrangement instead releasing spring tension off the striker preventing it from moving forward when the trigger is pulled. If you squeeze the trigger and push on the cocking piece it will go forward, just without spring pressure. Honestly it is a very poor safety design and realistically they would have been better doing what the French did and simply not have a safety instead of having that poor system. The only worse system I can think of is the Mosin Nagants, but at least those don't have the potential of firing when on safe (even though with a Carcano you would have to try to do it, you can still do it).

Unless it is going forward under spring pressure the safety is working as it was designed.

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[Ced1942]

Unless it is going forward under spring pressure the safety is working as it was designed.

It does

not with the same force that when it fires but it sure has some spring tension. Like i said it does not allow for the trigger to be pressed freely as the sear is still in contact and under pressure when the safety is engaged. If i press the trigger the whole thing tries to fire only to be stopped by the safety lever still in the safe position. I understand that on working bolt if i press the trigger the whole firing pin assembly should be able to move foward and come back freely by either hand force or simply gravity.

That little tension that make it move foward also prevent me to pull the cocking pieces manually and hang it back over the sear once it was released but only for the last few millimeter as it move freely like it should once released from the sear. I have to put the safety off on the uncocked bolt and recock to re engage the safety