I have a M1 that will not shoot the next round in the clip without working the charging handel.
when this happens I fire a round normal go to fire the next round and the trigger is mush and there is a fresh round in the chamber.eject the new round with the charging handel let the bolt pick up a new round and chamber it then there is tenison on the trigger and fire as normal.
thanks
Hab

I just want to get it straight here.
You fire a round, and what you get is:

1- Old case ejected
2-New round chambered
3- Slack trigger (hammer not cocked).

Right?

But when you clear it manually, you get the same except the hammer is cocked/trigger is ready.

Right?

My first (incorrect) thought was that you weren't getting enough gas pressure to operate the action fully- Only enough to eject the empty, but not enough to cock the hamer.
But that doesn't appear to be possible.
If it ejects the case, the bolt has traveled far enough to cock the hammer. At least it did when I just tried it with a sized, unprimed case in one of my Garands just now.

I'm curious about something...
Can you cycle it EMPTY and have a look at something? I was wondering if you could dry-fire it, but hold the trigger back while you hand-cycled the action, then release he trigger and try to dry-fire it again.
That comes closer to duplicating what happens when you are actually shooting, and if the trigger is "dead" when you do this, it's probably a disconnector problem (or the hammer hooks that engage the disconnector).

That may not be it, but it's the next thing I would look at.

I just want to get it straight here.
You fire a round, and what you get is:

1- Old case ejected
2-New round chambered
3- Slack trigger (hammer not cocked).

Right?

But when you clear it manually, you get the same except the hammer is cocked/trigger is ready.

Right?

My first (incorrect) thought was that you weren't getting enough gas pressure to operate the action fully- Only enough to eject the empty, but not enough to cock the hamer.
But that doesn't appear to be possible.
If it ejects the case, the bolt has traveled far enough to cock the hammer. At least it did when I just tried it with a sized, unprimed case in one of my Garands just now.

I'm curious about something...
Can you cycle it EMPTY and have a look at something? I was wondering if you could dry-fire it, but hold the trigger back while you hand-cycled the action, then release he trigger and try to dry-fire it again.
That comes closer to duplicating what happens when you are actually shooting, and if the trigger is "dead" when you do this, it's probably a disconnector problem (or the hammer hooks that engage the disconnector).

That may not be it, but it's the next thing I would look at.

thanks for your help, everything you wrote is happening when I fire the gun
I pulled the trigger group out and the trigger assy function fine in my hand but when I put the trigger assy back in the gun and go through the function test you told me about it fails ,would this be the hammer or disconnector.
thanks
Hab