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Hi everyone,
Just got back from a little practice at the range on a rainy night. On the plus side, my aim is getting better. On the down side, I got to practice a hell of a lot of malfunction clearing. I brought 2 50-count boxes of 9mm ammo with me - one was Winchester white box and the other was Blazer Brass. Both purchased locally and within the past three weeks. I was using my SR9 which, after tonight, has about 300 rounds through it in total. Here's what happened:
Loaded a magazine with ten rounds of Winchester. On the second shot, the case failed to eject and jammed things up. I cleared the gun, gave it a quick visual inspection for anything that might have caused a hangup and, finding nothing, went back to shooting. The 8th or 9th round in that same string of 10 did the same failure to eject.
Wanting to see if it was the gun or the ammo, I loaded a magazine with the Blazer and ran through 10 rounds with no problem. Switched back to Winchester and got another failure to eject about 3 rounds into the magazine. That's about how the rest of my night went - 50 perfect rounds of Blazer and 9 out of 50 rounds of Winchester failing to eject.
I can see no visible differences between Winchester brass that failed to eject and Winchester or Blazer brass that ejected properly. So, my questions to all of you:
Did I just get a bad box of ammo or is there a quality issue with the Winchester that I should know about?
Is there some specification difference between the two brands of ammo that I missed that's making the difference?
Is my guy just picky about this ammo for some reason or is this a break-in period issue that will pass?
All info, advice, thoughts, etc. greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Just got back from a little practice at the range on a rainy night. On the plus side, my aim is getting better. On the down side, I got to practice a hell of a lot of malfunction clearing. I brought 2 50-count boxes of 9mm ammo with me - one was Winchester white box and the other was Blazer Brass. Both purchased locally and within the past three weeks. I was using my SR9 which, after tonight, has about 300 rounds through it in total. Here's what happened:
Loaded a magazine with ten rounds of Winchester. On the second shot, the case failed to eject and jammed things up. I cleared the gun, gave it a quick visual inspection for anything that might have caused a hangup and, finding nothing, went back to shooting. The 8th or 9th round in that same string of 10 did the same failure to eject.
Wanting to see if it was the gun or the ammo, I loaded a magazine with the Blazer and ran through 10 rounds with no problem. Switched back to Winchester and got another failure to eject about 3 rounds into the magazine. That's about how the rest of my night went - 50 perfect rounds of Blazer and 9 out of 50 rounds of Winchester failing to eject.
I can see no visible differences between Winchester brass that failed to eject and Winchester or Blazer brass that ejected properly. So, my questions to all of you:
Did I just get a bad box of ammo or is there a quality issue with the Winchester that I should know about?
Is there some specification difference between the two brands of ammo that I missed that's making the difference?
Is my guy just picky about this ammo for some reason or is this a break-in period issue that will pass?
All info, advice, thoughts, etc. greatly appreciated.
Thanks.