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My H&K P2000 quit working a few weeks ago. Mid-magazine, pull the trigger, nothing.
I field stripped it at the range and everything looked fine (trigger bar moved, hammer cocked, etc.), but the hammer would not drop.
I decided (with my USAA discount) to ship the gun back to H&K and get it fixed under warranty. Unlike many, I had pretty good luck when I sent it in to have the V1 spring installed, so I went ahead and did it.
I called a week later and asked how things were going. I got Debbie in repair (she had done my V1 spring upgrade) and she said she had just finished my gun. She said nothing had broken and that a small piece of debris had lodged between the trigger and the housing keeping the trigger from getting all the way to where it would trip the sear.
I told her the gun had never been out of its case except when shooting at the range and that I cleaned it after each session. I was wondering out loud how something would have gotten up in there. She said, "well, maybe you got some back splash that landed right there when the action was open, maybe a one in a million chance. Anyway, it is fine, just waiting test firing and we will send it back."
I got the gun back and took it to the range the other day. Everything went fine, but I was still really puzzled about my "one in a million failure."
I think I got the answer last night. I had the batch of brass I had shot in the last few range trips and was decapping them when I came upon some that had no primer. I realized what had happend right away. The brass was some ex-NATO rounds with crimped primers I had de-crimped with a Hornaday chamfer bit and an electric drill. I guess I had over did the chamfering and made the primer pocket too loose.
I am almost certain now, what had gotten lodged in my trigger mechanism was one of the spent primers that had popped out of the over chamfered case.
Man, I am going to have to do a bunch of mea culpa's to H&K for all the bad things I was saying about my P2000. No wonder they say, "No Reloads!" in their manuals. They want to avoid dealing with numbskulls like me.
I field stripped it at the range and everything looked fine (trigger bar moved, hammer cocked, etc.), but the hammer would not drop.
I decided (with my USAA discount) to ship the gun back to H&K and get it fixed under warranty. Unlike many, I had pretty good luck when I sent it in to have the V1 spring installed, so I went ahead and did it.
I called a week later and asked how things were going. I got Debbie in repair (she had done my V1 spring upgrade) and she said she had just finished my gun. She said nothing had broken and that a small piece of debris had lodged between the trigger and the housing keeping the trigger from getting all the way to where it would trip the sear.
I told her the gun had never been out of its case except when shooting at the range and that I cleaned it after each session. I was wondering out loud how something would have gotten up in there. She said, "well, maybe you got some back splash that landed right there when the action was open, maybe a one in a million chance. Anyway, it is fine, just waiting test firing and we will send it back."
I got the gun back and took it to the range the other day. Everything went fine, but I was still really puzzled about my "one in a million failure."
I think I got the answer last night. I had the batch of brass I had shot in the last few range trips and was decapping them when I came upon some that had no primer. I realized what had happend right away. The brass was some ex-NATO rounds with crimped primers I had de-crimped with a Hornaday chamfer bit and an electric drill. I guess I had over did the chamfering and made the primer pocket too loose.
I am almost certain now, what had gotten lodged in my trigger mechanism was one of the spent primers that had popped out of the over chamfered case.
Man, I am going to have to do a bunch of mea culpa's to H&K for all the bad things I was saying about my P2000. No wonder they say, "No Reloads!" in their manuals. They want to avoid dealing with numbskulls like me.
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