Hi guys,
I posted in the autoloader forum about an issue I'm having with my SIG. I was hoping someone over here might be able to advise me too. It's kind of hard to explain so please bear with me.
Suppose you have a 9mm P-226 in your hand. You've just had a failure to fire (or are "simulating one" or unloading the pistol) so you are clearing the malfunction by yanking back on the slide, which will eject the defective round in the chamber and strip a fresh round off the magazine.
On my SIG, when I do that, the unfired round doesn't eject. It is extracted fine but then it's like the round (Win WB 115 grain FMJ) is too long. When the casing is pulled back against the extractor it starts to fling the round out but it can't because the bullet is still in the rear of the chamber. The loaded round then is either somehow bounced around until gets ejected (about half the time) or it falls back down in the breech (about half the time).
The gun has fed, fired, and ejected flawlessly for the 150 or so rounds that I have shot through it. Technically, it does pretty much "work".
So you might be wondering "Well if it works, what are you complaining about?"
I'm concerned that in the unlikely event that I had to use it to defend myself and I had a malfunction (even more unlikely), I could end up just getting my gun jammed more by trying to clear it. Also, I'm just not satisfied with a SIG that you have to turn upside down and shake when you want to unload it.
So I am wondering if anyone else has seen something like this. Could it be that maybe the wrong ejector or extractor got installed or that a part is defective? Others have said that they use WWB without issue and I have personally shot thousands of rounds of the stuff in many calibers, most of it being 9mm so I don't think that there is any reason that a CPO SIG shouldn't work with it. I'd be extremely disappointed if that was the case.
If there is an issue I'd like to get it fixed soon. I'll probably end up sending it back for repairs but any ideas or advice would be really helpful.
I posted in the autoloader forum about an issue I'm having with my SIG. I was hoping someone over here might be able to advise me too. It's kind of hard to explain so please bear with me.
Suppose you have a 9mm P-226 in your hand. You've just had a failure to fire (or are "simulating one" or unloading the pistol) so you are clearing the malfunction by yanking back on the slide, which will eject the defective round in the chamber and strip a fresh round off the magazine.
On my SIG, when I do that, the unfired round doesn't eject. It is extracted fine but then it's like the round (Win WB 115 grain FMJ) is too long. When the casing is pulled back against the extractor it starts to fling the round out but it can't because the bullet is still in the rear of the chamber. The loaded round then is either somehow bounced around until gets ejected (about half the time) or it falls back down in the breech (about half the time).
The gun has fed, fired, and ejected flawlessly for the 150 or so rounds that I have shot through it. Technically, it does pretty much "work".
So you might be wondering "Well if it works, what are you complaining about?"
I'm concerned that in the unlikely event that I had to use it to defend myself and I had a malfunction (even more unlikely), I could end up just getting my gun jammed more by trying to clear it. Also, I'm just not satisfied with a SIG that you have to turn upside down and shake when you want to unload it.
So I am wondering if anyone else has seen something like this. Could it be that maybe the wrong ejector or extractor got installed or that a part is defective? Others have said that they use WWB without issue and I have personally shot thousands of rounds of the stuff in many calibers, most of it being 9mm so I don't think that there is any reason that a CPO SIG shouldn't work with it. I'd be extremely disappointed if that was the case.
If there is an issue I'd like to get it fixed soon. I'll probably end up sending it back for repairs but any ideas or advice would be really helpful.