Before shooting, I was demonstrating to a new shooter how to properly empty a Smith and Wesson Model 41 .22 (magazine out, then, rack the slide).
I showed her why it was important to do it in that order; so as not to have a round left in the chamber, potentially, if done in reverse order!
When I dropped the mag with the last round in the chamber, and then racked the slide, the round did not extract.
All shooting afterward extracted all the rounds properly, just not manually.
It will not manually extract with either the magazine in or out. My other M41 does just fine (the older, 1974, Springfield, MA one) to manually extract.
Trying to figure out what was up I took the things apart and did some comparison. Taking the slide of the one the works, (1974) off, I tried to depress the extractor. It didn't really have much give when compared to the newer, 2008, Houlton, ME pistol. My thinking here was that if the new 2008 extractor was able to be depressed, maybe it was closing the gap that catches the rim, keeping it from grabbing it?
The newer extractor, when depressed, had quite a bit of give when depressed with the finger. Could that be it?
I cleaned out a little bit of crud on the breech face where the .22 cartridge sits, but that made no difference.
So it will extract fine under firing conditions, but i need to take a little knife/screwdriver and pick out an unfired cartridge.
any suggestions?
I showed her why it was important to do it in that order; so as not to have a round left in the chamber, potentially, if done in reverse order!
When I dropped the mag with the last round in the chamber, and then racked the slide, the round did not extract.
All shooting afterward extracted all the rounds properly, just not manually.
It will not manually extract with either the magazine in or out. My other M41 does just fine (the older, 1974, Springfield, MA one) to manually extract.
Trying to figure out what was up I took the things apart and did some comparison. Taking the slide of the one the works, (1974) off, I tried to depress the extractor. It didn't really have much give when compared to the newer, 2008, Houlton, ME pistol. My thinking here was that if the new 2008 extractor was able to be depressed, maybe it was closing the gap that catches the rim, keeping it from grabbing it?
The newer extractor, when depressed, had quite a bit of give when depressed with the finger. Could that be it?
I cleaned out a little bit of crud on the breech face where the .22 cartridge sits, but that made no difference.
So it will extract fine under firing conditions, but i need to take a little knife/screwdriver and pick out an unfired cartridge.
any suggestions?