AR-15 Safety Question

[kselkhunter]

I could use some inputs on a new AR-15 that i have.  Anderson complete lower and Bear Creek complete upper in 6.5 Grendel.  First thing I did before shooting was swap the trigger out for a Timney trigger.   My first trigger job on an AR-15 (have done plenty on bolt actions), other than cursing those darn tiny set screws with my aging eyes, it appeared to have gone OK.  But now that I went to shoot it, only one round will fire and I have to toggle the safety from fire to safe and back to fire after every shot.  A round is cycling properly, with another round going in just fine.  And accuracy is good in this barrel.   It appears to be related to the trigger and or safety, and I can't for the life of me understand why.   Before I go through disassembly and reassembly of the trigger/safety, I thought I'd post the question to the forum to see if anybody has had this issue before.  Rifle shoots fine, and the safety technically works regarding firing in fire and not firing in safety position.   It's just annoying that it's a single shot rifle unless I work the safety back and forth.   

Please let me know if anybody has any suggestions. 

[phildobaggins]

I could use some inputs on a new AR-15 that i have.  Anderson complete lower and Bear Creek complete upper in 6.5 Grendel.  First thing I did before shooting was swap the trigger out for a Timney trigger.   My first trigger job on an AR-15 (have done plenty on bolt actions), other than cursing those darn tiny set screws with my aging eyes, it appeared to have gone OK.  But now that I went to shoot it, only one round will fire and I have to toggle the safety from fire to safe and back to fire after every shot.  A round is cycling properly, with another round going in just fine.  And accuracy is good in this barrel.   It appears to be related to the trigger and or safety, and I can't for the life of me understand why.   Before I go through disassembly and reassembly of the trigger/safety, I thought I'd post the question to the forum to see if anybody has had this issue before.  Rifle shoots fine, and the safety technically works regarding firing in fire and not firing in safety position.   It's just annoying that it's a single shot rifle unless I work the safety back and forth.   

Please let me know if anybody has any suggestions.

I put a Timney in my AR and have had no problems. It honestly doesn't sound like it's related to the safety. Hmm..

[buckfvr]

Watch a couple relevant trigger swaps on youtube to see if you can identify your problem maybe......

AR parts triggers, safeties etc interchangeable so watch a vid or two and you may spot the problem

[ckr]

My guess would be you accidentally placed the trigger spring in backwards.  I did this on my first build.  It would load, fire 1 round, load a new round and then nothing.  Went on some forums to figure it out and sure enough it was backwards

[kselkhunter]

Never mind.  Upon disassembly the problem presented itself.    Stupid mistake.   That's what I get for being in a hurry to shoot the new toy......    Problem solved.   Functions fine now.   

Thanks for the tips and responses all. 

[Alchase]

Never mind.  Upon disassembly the problem presented itself.    Stupid mistake.   That's what I get for being in a hurry to shoot the new toy......    Problem solved.   Functions fine now.   

Thanks for the tips and responses all. 

So was your spring in backwards?

[kselkhunter]

Never mind.  Upon disassembly the problem presented itself.    Stupid mistake.   That's what I get for being in a hurry to shoot the new toy......    Problem solved.   Functions fine now.   

Thanks for the tips and responses all. 

So was your spring in backwards?

Missing detent spring.   Detent spring somehow ended up in the handgrip bolt hole (compressed down when I screwed in the handgrip), instead of in the detent spring hole.  Needle nose pliers don't fit in the handgrip bolt hole so I had to play a game of "Operation" (electronic surgery game from 70s/80s) with a couple of small eyeglass screwdrivers to fish the spring out of there and put it in it's proper hole.  Stupid mistake on my part, and just being in a hurry to not notice the detent spring fell into the wrong hole.  But functions fine now.   Next time I'll start disassembly before posting the question as it was obvious as soon as I got the handgrip screw out.....  was just not looking forward to possibility of having to pull the trigger out with those tiny set screws.

[Alchase]

Nice!