Did some pest control this morning and got a Collared Dove at 25yds. Waited awhile and some Starlings showed up. Took aim and pulled the trigger and nothing happened until I RELEASED the trigger. Hmmm! I thought it was some anomaly. Nope! It continues to do the same thing. Hammer releases and it fires when I take my finger OFF the trigger. No! I haven't messed with the trigger or any other adjustments on the rifle, except of course, the scope turrets. What makes this frustrating is I finally got it dialed in and made a range card for it. And, there are more pests at the dairy farm. Please don't tell me I have to send it to FX U.S. Thanks in advance.
Diagnostics on my Impact Please
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I've only seen this once and nOT on an FX.
Broken sear.
Please do give us the low down when you diagnose it.
John
Broken sear.
Please do give us the low down when you diagnose it.
John
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I did some trouble shooting and have discovered a dangerous serious issue. Remember I did zero adjustments to the rifle. The rifle fires normally when on fire. However, when on safe it fires when I release the trigger. In my movements in the hide I must have bumped the safety to 'safe' and didn't realize it and that's when I discovered it fired on safe. That sort of speaks to the notion of testing all the functions on an unloaded new $2000 rifle. Bad on you FX. Glad it didn't lead to an accidental discharge. Follow the first rule always. Don't point your weapon at anything you don't intend to shoot!!
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There QC SEEMS LOOSE I IMAGINE ITS BECAUSE THEY MOVE TONS OF PRODUCT still no excuse .bad on them i will check mine w;en i get home i wonder if there are more out there jim im glad you swerent hurt let us now what happens . HYNZIE
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You can adjust safety engagement hex screw, it is the last one, right after big second stage screw. Turn it in 1/4 at a time until safety works.
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Yep, I had to adjust my safety when I adjusted the trigger as it would fire with the safety on. The last screw before you get to the regulator adjustment screw is the safety adjustment. Don't turn it much, just enough to engage the safety.
What I don't understand is why it was firing when you took your finger OFF the trigger ... it should have fired as it always does when breaking through the second stage. Hummm, something strange about that!
What I don't understand is why it was firing when you took your finger OFF the trigger ... it should have fired as it always does when breaking through the second stage. Hummm, something strange about that!
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Thanks for the input. If I knew what screw you all were talking about I would turn it in until the safety engages. Maybe just a reference to somewhere it was explained, you tube or manual, and I'll search it out. Yes it would be interesting if other folks with FX rifles would check on the safe function and see how strange my situation really was.
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JIM i know when i got my wildcat 4 months ago it wouldnt allow me to engage the safety unless i cocked it ,,,strange but true,,, several members here said the same thing... even some that owned the bobcat i changed mine so i could use the safety when ever i want,,,, but i never ever trust it,,, no one else should either always handle as if you have no safety..HYNZIE oh and my IMPACT s safety works as it should
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JIM ... if you look on page 14 of the owners manual there is a blowup of the trigger guard area. You will want to take the 4 screws on the bottom of the trigger guard off to open up the area so you can get your hex head wrench in there. In the picture you will see A&B marked as the 2nd stage adjustment and the 1st stage adjustment. The safety adjustment screw is directly behind the arrow marked A. There is only one other screw back there but it isn't on the trigger plate. That would be the regulator adjustment screw ... DO NOT TURN THAT SCREW. Turn the one behind the large screw marked A. Only turn it until the safety is fully engaged.
To make it easier for you to understand ... there is the trigger, then going to the left there is the spring adjustment screw, then there is the 2nd stage screw ( marked A) and the next one is the safety adjustment screw as in the diagram.
Hope this helps
John
To make it easier for you to understand ... there is the trigger, then going to the left there is the spring adjustment screw, then there is the 2nd stage screw ( marked A) and the next one is the safety adjustment screw as in the diagram.
Hope this helps
John
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Thanks for the info guys. My Impact starting having these problems as well. Even worse actually. Trigger will not engage at all. When I switch from fire to safe, then back to fire again the Impact fires without having to touch the trigger at all. Very unsafe!!! I will try adjusting the safety adjustment screw and hope that will fix the problem.
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Thanks for all the suggestions. The members here directed exactly what the factory tech tried to do.
I got it at UA. Called them and they put me in touch, with a direct number, to FX USA. FX told me how to adjust it but I couldn't get one allen head to turn. Even stripped the hex out of the head of it. FX sent me a new trigger to install. I did. It worked worse than before. I'd have liked for it all to come together but it didn't. That's not the fault of UA or FX USA. One might have to look at the factory for quality control. It was probably that way when it arrived and I never bothered to test it. It's repacked and waiting for a shipping label from UA and it will be returned. The learning here for all is you haven't tested that the safety on whatever rifle you have functions properly before putting it into service you take a risk of accidental discharge and a round NOT going downrange.
I got it at UA. Called them and they put me in touch, with a direct number, to FX USA. FX told me how to adjust it but I couldn't get one allen head to turn. Even stripped the hex out of the head of it. FX sent me a new trigger to install. I did. It worked worse than before. I'd have liked for it all to come together but it didn't. That's not the fault of UA or FX USA. One might have to look at the factory for quality control. It was probably that way when it arrived and I never bothered to test it. It's repacked and waiting for a shipping label from UA and it will be returned. The learning here for all is you haven't tested that the safety on whatever rifle you have functions properly before putting it into service you take a risk of accidental discharge and a round NOT going downrange.
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Hey Jim, in my case it did not come that way. The safety worked just the way it was supposed to until recently. One day out of the blue the trigger would not pull with a loaded road. I switched the gun into safe mode, saw that there was a round in the chamber and thinking it might be a double feed I ran a cleaning rod down the barrel from the crown and knocked out the pellet. I loaded another pellet and when I switched the safety to fire the gun fired without me touching the trigger. That is very dangerous. That was the first time anything like that has ever happened. It has now happened twice, so I know it is not an isolated problem. If turning an adjustment screw will fix the problem it will probably keep me from packing it up and sending it in somewhere, but it is a very bad and dangerous problem to have.
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Hi jim. Sorry to here you had this experience This is just a heads up for Impact owners who start experienced trigger problems. I’m not suggesting It’s defo the problem here.
Any problem where your gun stops cocking or unpredictable firing always check that the pin on the cocking block isn’t bent a little. Then it doesn’t bring the hammer back far enough to engage fully and you start having what seems to be trigger issues.
It will bend over time but especially if the trigger is pulled without the gun being full cocked
I spent a lot of time scratching my head to eventually realise this was the issue.
It doesn’t need to bend much like .5mm and you start having problems.
Bend it back carefully and problems gone.
I’m sure it’s where many trigger problems come from.
If it’s not to late Jim check and see if the cocking pin is bent.
Michael
Any problem where your gun stops cocking or unpredictable firing always check that the pin on the cocking block isn’t bent a little. Then it doesn’t bring the hammer back far enough to engage fully and you start having what seems to be trigger issues.
It will bend over time but especially if the trigger is pulled without the gun being full cocked
I spent a lot of time scratching my head to eventually realise this was the issue.
It doesn’t need to bend much like .5mm and you start having problems.
Bend it back carefully and problems gone.
I’m sure it’s where many trigger problems come from.
If it’s not to late Jim check and see if the cocking pin is bent.
Michael
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Quality control seems to be lacking everywhere. I have a Daystate Renegade only about 1 month old and the cocking lever was starting to bind. I removed the cheek rest and found the retaining screw had backed out so the lever was loose. Easy fix but on a month old gun? Certainly can't blame that on recoil.
Had to replace a leaking breech seal O-ring two weeks earlier.
Had to replace a leaking breech seal O-ring two weeks earlier.
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Just so you know which pin I’m talking about. It’s the left side pin in Ernest’s video.
http://www.ernestrowe.com/fx-impact-x-barrel
http://www.ernestrowe.com/fx-impact-x-barrel
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Did a little more digging on this topic and FX did upgrade the cocking block with a stronger pin.
If your gun is an earlier one it is more likely to encounter this problem.
You can upgrade your old cocking block which I’ll definitely be doing.
If your gun is an earlier one it is more likely to encounter this problem.
You can upgrade your old cocking block which I’ll definitely be doing.
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