Action_Can_Do
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- May 28, 2005
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Hello everyone. I recently purchased a brushed chrome Desert Eagle 50ae pistol and since then it has been giving me some headaches. I handloaded some 300 grn XTPs and went to the range with a grin. The grin soon left me. The gun jammed up. A lot. The magazine did not like feeding when it was loaded to full capacity. When I only loaded 4 or 5 rounds, it did just fine. The jams I was getting were weird. The gun would fail to go fully into battery and the slide couldn't be budged. The only way to clear it was to disassemble the gun to get the round out. At one point I didn't realize the gun didn't go into battery and I squeezed the trigger. The hammer fell and the gun didn't fire. I disassembled the gun and found that the firing pin had hit the primer, but not enough to detonate it. That spooked me. I've also noticed the brass coming out of the pistol (both fired rounds and rounds that jammed) was getting really beat up. Dents and scratchs near the mouth of the case, down the sides, pretty much everywhere. Is my gun a lemon? Does the gun not like XTPs? Bad magazine? If somebody can help me please do!