Does the bolt move a little bit when moving the lever or is completely stuck? There is a screw (#13 on the drawing) that attaches the link from the bolt to the lever that is known to back out some and cause this problem . Also there is a pin (#23) that connects the bolt to the intermediate sliding thingy and drives the hammer. If this pin is a hair too long it can catch on the hammer when cocked and no allow the lever to close. Turn the gun upside down, tap and jiggle to see if gravity will move it enough to close the lever.Tom
well the ball is in motion and im sending my new toy back.should be about another 2 weeks before i get another one thanks to everyone thats been a help hows your experience been with your .45 sniper @dv8eod
I'd like to know how the .45 is performing also. I watched the PA review and it had the normal falling muzzly velocity that shows the spring is too strong for the fill pressure and it also had some horrible grouping that was hopefully due to the terrible Air Venture ammo.
I'm willing to bet the guy on the video actually replaced the hammer spring with a lighter one. You can see by the posted shot strings for the gun (PA website) that the velocity curve is on the downward slope and the velocity drops off fast which leads me to believe a lighter spring would actually bring the power up. I had a Max ML bull pup in .357 and my first shot string showed a terrible downward drop in velocity and a low peak velocity. When I backed out the hammer spring I actually picked up over 60 fps on my peak velocity and got a nice 7 shot velocity curve starting at the max 3000 psi fill pressure.
well i got my replacement in on friday and got to the range today.i got to sight it in at 30yds and shes dead on .i need to find a a bigger range to really see what she can do at greater distances.as for AGD they really do have good customer service aside from a little hiccup they did good.@dv8eod are you planning on swapping out the spring ? if you do let me know about your results and where you found the spring at.