hi, just registered on here. i had something occur with a taurus 24/7 the other day, i had posted my question regarding this on the general firearms section on the forum i normally frequent - ak-47.net (i'm an AK buff)
i got about a half dozen responses but i thought i'd check here also because of the number of handgun afficianados.
I copied and pasted my oroiginal post since i'm lazy and didn't want to type it out again.
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"so what do you think about this?
I was out with my taurus 24/7 in .45 ACP today, now i've put close to 300 rounds through it with no problems, but today i had something strange occur....
So i was shooting, and i emptied a magazine and reloaded it, when i popped the mag back in i found that the locked open slide suddenly closed and chambered a round on it's own without me hitting the slide release or tugging on the rear of the slide. i had never had this happen before, and i noticed that i was holding the pistol at a sort of sideways angle when i reloaded that time
i actually duplicated this several times. it seemed to always happen when i pushed the mag in a certain way while the pistol was tilted sideways....
now i'm going to assume this would be a problem with the slide stop/release?
because i'm pretty sure pistols aren't supposed to chamber rounds on thier own just because they happen to be tilted sideways.
it's a pretty minor problem that only occured under very specific circumstances, but i'll be honest, it actually bothers me quite a bit that the pistol is apparenly capable of chambering a round without requiring a deliberate action by me to do so.
any thoughts? sound like a problem with the slide stop or could it be caused by something else? improper cleaning maybe? (as unlikely as that sounds)
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so does anyone here think this sounds like cause for alarm? the replies i got on AKnet suggested that it does happen if you really are slamming a mag in during a reload. several people said thier glocks and 1911s do it fairly often and one said that his USP does it a lot
BTW overall i like the 24/7, as my copied post said, seems to fit my hand very well (way better then a glock for instance) no jams or anything in a total of 300 rounds (although i have been cleaning it between sessions, so i haven't conducted any kind of "torture test".) the sights are still attached, but i'll probably apply some loctite just in case. accuracy i can't really tell you about because i'm still on a learning curve with shooting .45 acp so most of the accuracy problems are my own fault
i got about a half dozen responses but i thought i'd check here also because of the number of handgun afficianados.
I copied and pasted my oroiginal post since i'm lazy and didn't want to type it out again.
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"so what do you think about this?
I was out with my taurus 24/7 in .45 ACP today, now i've put close to 300 rounds through it with no problems, but today i had something strange occur....
So i was shooting, and i emptied a magazine and reloaded it, when i popped the mag back in i found that the locked open slide suddenly closed and chambered a round on it's own without me hitting the slide release or tugging on the rear of the slide. i had never had this happen before, and i noticed that i was holding the pistol at a sort of sideways angle when i reloaded that time
i actually duplicated this several times. it seemed to always happen when i pushed the mag in a certain way while the pistol was tilted sideways....
now i'm going to assume this would be a problem with the slide stop/release?
because i'm pretty sure pistols aren't supposed to chamber rounds on thier own just because they happen to be tilted sideways.
it's a pretty minor problem that only occured under very specific circumstances, but i'll be honest, it actually bothers me quite a bit that the pistol is apparenly capable of chambering a round without requiring a deliberate action by me to do so.
any thoughts? sound like a problem with the slide stop or could it be caused by something else? improper cleaning maybe? (as unlikely as that sounds)
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so does anyone here think this sounds like cause for alarm? the replies i got on AKnet suggested that it does happen if you really are slamming a mag in during a reload. several people said thier glocks and 1911s do it fairly often and one said that his USP does it a lot
BTW overall i like the 24/7, as my copied post said, seems to fit my hand very well (way better then a glock for instance) no jams or anything in a total of 300 rounds (although i have been cleaning it between sessions, so i haven't conducted any kind of "torture test".) the sights are still attached, but i'll probably apply some loctite just in case. accuracy i can't really tell you about because i'm still on a learning curve with shooting .45 acp so most of the accuracy problems are my own fault