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My coworker just bought his first firearm.... a Beretta M9 .... fancy engraved USMC commemorative edition (he's a USMC reservist).
So I invite him to come to the rod 'n gun club with me Sat. to break it in.
big troubles...
Multiple failure to feeds, with the round tipped up high getting jammed above the barrel in the corner between the barrel and the receiver.
So many that we stopped counting, but were talking 7 or 8 out of 100 rounds fired.
Needless to say he was quite frustrated.
He had field stripped and cleaned the weapon w/ CLP prior to firing it for the first time.
He was shooting 115 gr. Rem UMC ball. So I figured maybe it is so lightly loaded that it's not vigorously cycling the action. So we loaded up my handloads... 124 gr. Berry's plated RN over 4.5 gr W231 and still had several failures.
He only had an hour or so to shoot, so we ended the range session before we could really properly troubleshoot the problem.
My recommendations were...
1. Thoroughly clean and lube the weapon and next time bring some different lube and slide grease options to the range. I have zero experience with the Beretta M9 or 92.... do they like to run wet?
2. Disassemble the mags and carefully inspect the followers and bodies for burs or mold line imperfections. Label the mags (he got three with the gun) and try to identify if it's one particular mag that is causing the problem.
3. Bring more ammo. options on the next range trip and see if there's anything that will cycle reliably. Are M9s fussy? Since he had these problems with ball, I'm not encouraged to think what kind of results he'll have with hollow points.
He dropped >$600 on this gun and is trying to not be bummed out.
Meanwhile, there I am pounding rounds through my $350 "piece of crap" Taurus Mil. Pro. with no issues at all. And when asked, I had to honestly report that with ~1,000 rounds through the gun now, I've not had a single failure.
Hmmmm....
Any recommendations for my friend? He's somewhat at a loss to know what to do.... and like I said, I have no experience with any of the 92 variations out there.
So I invite him to come to the rod 'n gun club with me Sat. to break it in.
big troubles...
Multiple failure to feeds, with the round tipped up high getting jammed above the barrel in the corner between the barrel and the receiver.
So many that we stopped counting, but were talking 7 or 8 out of 100 rounds fired.
Needless to say he was quite frustrated.
He had field stripped and cleaned the weapon w/ CLP prior to firing it for the first time.
He was shooting 115 gr. Rem UMC ball. So I figured maybe it is so lightly loaded that it's not vigorously cycling the action. So we loaded up my handloads... 124 gr. Berry's plated RN over 4.5 gr W231 and still had several failures.
He only had an hour or so to shoot, so we ended the range session before we could really properly troubleshoot the problem.
My recommendations were...
1. Thoroughly clean and lube the weapon and next time bring some different lube and slide grease options to the range. I have zero experience with the Beretta M9 or 92.... do they like to run wet?
2. Disassemble the mags and carefully inspect the followers and bodies for burs or mold line imperfections. Label the mags (he got three with the gun) and try to identify if it's one particular mag that is causing the problem.
3. Bring more ammo. options on the next range trip and see if there's anything that will cycle reliably. Are M9s fussy? Since he had these problems with ball, I'm not encouraged to think what kind of results he'll have with hollow points.
He dropped >$600 on this gun and is trying to not be bummed out.
Meanwhile, there I am pounding rounds through my $350 "piece of crap" Taurus Mil. Pro. with no issues at all. And when asked, I had to honestly report that with ~1,000 rounds through the gun now, I've not had a single failure.
Hmmmm....
Any recommendations for my friend? He's somewhat at a loss to know what to do.... and like I said, I have no experience with any of the 92 variations out there.