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Stevens 511/Savage 311 double barrel
laboy
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Problem. When front trigger is pulled safety button slides to rear to safety position and the second barrel will not fire-safety is on. Rear of front trigger rides up safety lever, moves bottom of lever to rear and pushes safety on. If hold thumb on safety button when firing, safety will not move to rear and second barrel will fire. Seems that the safety spring is weak, but if safety is moved from safe to fire and back manually pressure is required, does seem weak?. If safety spring is problem, how do you remove and replace? Any help appreciated.
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You will then be able to see what's going on in the action.
The link between selector switch and triggers, pivots on a pin between upper and lower tangs. Moving the top of the link forward causes the bottom of the link to move rearward, disengaging the triggers & switching the safety off. The pivot pin may be missing on yours.
If it is in a position between off and on and a trigger cams it back, the safety will be forced into the on position, not the off position.
When the safety switch is moved fully forward, the triggers are free to move up into the notch or step.
At some point between the bottom of the link and top of the cutout (step), the trigger bars are supposed to release the hammers and be stopped by the step. If they don't and the triggers go above the step onto the angled cut or above it, the triggers need to be lengthened at their rear by welding so their total travel is from the bottom of the safety link (safety position) to the top of the step (firing position) within the cutout.
The cutout and angled cut in the safety lever should be facing forward.
If the hammers don't release within that 1/8" trigger travel, the trigger bars have to be bent to release their hammers within that distance which is about 1/8".
If the trigger pushes the front of the safety bar at any point below the pivot pin, the top of the bar will push forward in the direction of safety off.
If triggers and safety bar are buggered up, Numrich /Gun Parts has replacements.
This gun could never have functioned properly unless the trigger never reached the step but fired very early.
The fix is to remove the safety bar step, allowing more trigger travel.
The triggers would then stop when their rears butt against the vertical part of the safety bar which involves a slight bit more travel. Butting into the vertical part will tend to want to push the trigger CCW or further into the OFF position.
I don't forsee any problem but should there be one, a new safety bar is about $7 from Gunparts.
Let us know how you make out.