I had an interesting trigger malfunction today while dry-firing my rack grade Dane Winnie, which is kind of my dedicated dry-fire M-1. The rifle has sat up for a couple of months; today it would NOT drop the hammer even with a very hard squeeze, but when I let off of the trigger, it did "fire." This happened most of the time, also at times 2-3 times in a row. Of course we are talking dry-firing here, but with live ammo this could be dangerous to say the least. During a match it would get the attention of a range officer, for sure, if the rifle fired as you brought it down out of your shoulder. I popped the trigger housing group out; it did not appear dirty or especially worn, nor did it look especially dry. I blew it off with WD-40 (yah, yah! all I had just then) and lubed with light machine oil on trigger, hammer hooks, sear, and for good measure the hammer itself. The rifle then dry-fired normally. Do you think it was just dry or have I got a part with an occult defect in the THG? I can't imagine it was "dirty" in the sense a combat rifle would be.... By the way the THG is WRA but I have not checked the components for manufacture source.
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