Issue setting the safety - The Firearms Forum

dubya · 06-16-2012, 11:33 PM

Hi All - I'm just getting started with my Colt Match Target. After cleaning it and putting it back together, I cannot seem to set the safety unless I charge it by pulling back on the charging handle. I'm pretty sure that I put it back together properly, but I am also pretty sure I should be able to set the safety without charging. Can anyone help me?

carver · 06-17-2012, 06:54 AM

Your Colt Match Target is built the same way the 1911 is. If the gun is not cocked you don't need to have a safety, thus, it will not go into safety untill the gun is cocked.

Helix_FR · 06-17-2012, 07:39 AM

Colt match target ar? Im assuming. you cant put a ar in safe unless the hammer is cocked which means you have to pull the charging handle first. Sounds to me everything is just fine

dubya · 06-17-2012, 08:16 AM

Hey All - thank you so much! I've spent many hours taking apart and putting back together the bolt assembly thinking that I had reassembled improperly! But all time well spent as I have gotten a good deal of familiarity with the weapon. Now thanks to you, I've gotten a good deal of confidence with the weapon. Again thanks!
P.S. It is a Colt Match Target 6400. Based on where I live (NJ), I don't think that the AR variant is legal - something about features like flash suppressor, adjustable stock, etc., not being legal. But here again, I am a novice.

Helix_FR · 06-17-2012, 10:15 PM

Even without the suppressors, extended mags and collapsable stock, its still a AR variant. Same function, same trigger group.

06-16-2012, 11:33 PM	#1
dubya Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 2	Issue setting the safety Hi All - I'm just getting started with my Colt Match Target. After cleaning it and putting it back together, I cannot seem to set the safety unless I charge it by pulling back on the charging handle. I'm pretty sure that I put it back together properly, but I am also pretty sure I should be able to set the safety without charging. Can anyone help me? -->

06-17-2012, 06:54 AM	#2
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,280	Re: Issue setting the safety Your Colt Match Target is built the same way the 1911 is. If the gun is not cocked you don't need to have a safety, thus, it will not go into safety untill the gun is cocked. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

06-17-2012, 07:39 AM	#3
Helix_FR TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Imperial, MO Posts: 3,624	Re: Issue setting the safety Colt match target ar? Im assuming. you cant put a ar in safe unless the hammer is cocked which means you have to pull the charging handle first. Sounds to me everything is just fine __________________ Only cowards shoot with their eyes closed.... helixgunsmith.com

06-17-2012, 08:16 AM	#4
dubya Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 2	Re: Issue setting the safety Hey All - thank you so much! I've spent many hours taking apart and putting back together the bolt assembly thinking that I had reassembled improperly! But all time well spent as I have gotten a good deal of familiarity with the weapon. Now thanks to you, I've gotten a good deal of confidence with the weapon. Again thanks! P.S. It is a Colt Match Target 6400. Based on where I live (NJ), I don't think that the AR variant is legal - something about features like flash suppressor, adjustable stock, etc., not being legal. But here again, I am a novice.

06-17-2012, 10:15 PM	#5
Helix_FR TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Imperial, MO Posts: 3,624	Re: Issue setting the safety Even without the suppressors, extended mags and collapsable stock, its still a AR variant. Same function, same trigger group. __________________ Only cowards shoot with their eyes closed.... helixgunsmith.com