I've had a Taurus M94 (2" barrel) for about 9 months. I replaced the heavy OEM hammer spring with one designed for the Model 85. It greatly improved the trigger weight, but caused a few more Failures to fire. About 3 weeks ago all it would shoot was Federal Value Pack. bgreene observed that the firing pin penetration looked low.
Last night I removed the firing components (trigger, hammer, firing pin, hammer spring), cleaned them thoroughly. I also "rodded" the firing pin channel with a paper clip and may have (by feel) broken up an obstruction. I did some very minor polishing on the internal components. I reassembled the revolver and used the original hammer spring.
Today I fired Fed Value Pack, Fed Automatch, Fed 510, CCI SV, Wolf MT and Rem Golden Bullets without fail. Only 3 of 9 Win Xperts and 4 of 9 Wolf MT's fired. Firing pin strikes seemed to be deeper. Accuracy at 25 yards was ok, but I wasn't shooting for accuracy. I fired about 100 or so rounds without fail.
PS. The (plastic) sear is held on the hammer by a spring, which is in the noseeum size range, especially when it is on a carpeted floor. Dryfiring the gun without the side plate can result in the hammer popping out and the sear and spring separating from the hammer. Takes time and lot's of technical language to reinstall it.
Taurus M94 Failure to Fire Fix(?)
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How's the 94 coming along? Thinking seriously about one of those for myself. Did it originally have the light strike problem?
Edit: Re-reading your post it sounds as though the original hammer spring did the trick??? Although you're still having FTF's with some ammo???
Edit: Re-reading your post it sounds as though the original hammer spring did the trick??? Although you're still having FTF's with some ammo???
Jack
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I've had problems with the win XPert22 ammo in the past. What I found was the bullet was slightly over size and would not fully chamber. And this varied from box to box even in the same lot. I just now buy Fed and no problem.
David
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Hit or miss results.blue68f100 wrote:I've had problems with the win XPert22 ammo in the past. What I found was the bullet was slightly over size and would not fully chamber. And this varied from box to box even in the same lot. I just now buy Fed and no problem.
Xpert seems to do pretty well in the Buck Mark and S&W M17 and not as well, but ok, in the Ruger MK's. Not nearly as well in the Taurus. I think bgreene had pretty good results with it.