Boys, hat in hand, I screwed up. Cleaned a gun.

I knew better. Go ahead let me have it, I deserve it. The FN HP MKII was pretty dirty after about 300-400 rounds so I took it apart and got the carbon out, wiped and Q-tipped with just enough CLP to be right. WITHOUT TESTING I let my wife have it to go qualify at the CCL Enhanced class. On the line, heart pounding, CLICK. Click, Click, it's all my fault.

Roman loaned her his Arsenal Strike 1 9mm and she shot a merciful 48/50 to Roman's 49/50 for qualifying. He about swallowed his bubble gum when a shooter beside him (lady) shot HIS target, bad low. The range officer didn't count it. lol That would have been bad, tied with your mom, using YOUR gun. Now she likes that 9mm, wouldn't mind having one. Lovely, they used to be about $1200 before things went nuts.

She was not too cross with me and I'm having a devil of a time figuring our what wen wrong with one of the most simplistic and refined semi-autos of the last century. How in the world could I have screwed it up?! I think I have it solved and fixed. It seems a small bit of hard carbon got under the sear bar in the slide. It prevented the bar from pivoting full travel and fully releasing the sear. The hammer stopped short with a hollow thunk. Sort of like a hammer drop safety which SOME, but not my MKII, have. Actually late MKII do have an added hammer drop safety (yuck) as well as all later MKIII. Mine is early 1980's, a run for an Israel police contract.

I took it apart again investigating and it did it on me. I took some pictures for examination. All HP have a mag disconnect safety, which I promptly removed. This would prevent the trigger from moving at all so that is no way a factor. The hammer is partially falling (to the safety notch)so the trigger bar is working a bit and the sear is partially releasing. A flick of carbon, just a flick, could do it. It works fine now.