Well, yeah.
I started getting failure-to-eject jams with my 9mm STI 2011. At first, I thought it was my handloads, but when I tried factory ammo, I had the same problem.
Humm, when did I last clean the extractor and channel? Couldn’t remember.
That’s a bad sign!
Man, the amount of hardened crud in there was amazing. I had the extractor set pretty tight and it just wasn’t able to flex far enough to release case rims.
Back when I was an armorer in the Army, I was hard on the guys who brought their guns in for inspection. My own M16 and 1911 were spotless.
But that was long, long ago and I’ve gotten lazy. I don’t clean my own ARs until they start to jam. If a gun is designated as a defense arm, I maintain it religiously. Before a hunt, I give the gun a through going-over.
But the day-to-day range guns don’t get much attention.
That’s gonna have to change.
I started getting failure-to-eject jams with my 9mm STI 2011. At first, I thought it was my handloads, but when I tried factory ammo, I had the same problem.
Humm, when did I last clean the extractor and channel? Couldn’t remember.
That’s a bad sign!
Man, the amount of hardened crud in there was amazing. I had the extractor set pretty tight and it just wasn’t able to flex far enough to release case rims.
Back when I was an armorer in the Army, I was hard on the guys who brought their guns in for inspection. My own M16 and 1911 were spotless.
But that was long, long ago and I’ve gotten lazy. I don’t clean my own ARs until they start to jam. If a gun is designated as a defense arm, I maintain it religiously. Before a hunt, I give the gun a through going-over.
But the day-to-day range guns don’t get much attention.
That’s gonna have to change.