Took my SOCOM 16 out again the other day, and although it shot flawlessly as expected, I noticed after running the mag empty there is some clicking in the trigger that goes away after a few pullbacks. This doesn’t happen when manually locking the bolt to the rear only after live fire.

What would those clicks be after running empty and the hammer is already down? Almost feels like a half trigger pull and then after a few pulls it smoothens out again to feel empty as one would expect after the hammer falls and the round is fired.

standard M14/M1A trigger?

pull the trigger assy out and see if you can duplicate it and watch to see what may be catching or rubbing?


I have tuned a handful of standard triggers in the past, but that past is way long ago for me to remember anything acting like you say

Standard trigger and it’s a good one for a battle rifle I just do not know if it is something about the geometry as it breaks in due to it being a 2 stage trigger and perhaps the force of live fire is taking the components to a further end range or reset point versus just dry fire practice/manual bolt lock back.

Remove the trigger group, hold your thumb in front of the hammer and see if it does the same thing out of the rifle.