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    Need help with this

    Went to the range yesterday with Alistair. He picked up his new G17. Shoots nice, for a Glock

    I had some trouble for the first time with my EDC. It's a Springfield EMP .40
    For the first time I had a fail to feed. Now let me preface this investigation with the fact that I went shooting with this gun 2-3 times and didn't clean it after those range trips. First time I ever did that. Normally I clean after each trip. Could this have played into the FTF? Only happened once, but there were about 2-3 other times after my shot, the cycling of the slide, and the feed into battery was not smooth. I'm very in tune with my gun and someone else might not have noticed this, but I did.

    In addition to the above, I examined a number of the spent casings and there is an identical minor dent on them. See the pic below for a visual.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Pics not working.
    I bought my sons out of state.

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    • #3
      How's that?

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      • #4
        It could be the chamber you got is on the tight side and the ammo on the large side. Or perhaps the bullet type and the way it feeds into the chamber catches on the
        angle it goes in and therefore it puts a dent/mark on the brass. I don't think the lack of cleaning is the reason but it could compound into the problem.
        Clean the firearm, try other ammo and the lets see. It could be as simple as that.
        One suggestion. if you feed one bullet with your hand it should just drop into the chamber. also if you chamber one from the mag in small motion you could see where
        it might be catching.
        it is hard to say w/o actually seeing this happening.
        It is a shame when people demanding tolerance, have no tolerance

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        • #5
          Thanks for putting some thought into this. I've been shooting this piece consistent for two years now. This is the first time anything like this has happened. I'm going to offer an estimate of about 1200 rounds through it. Been eating all types of ammo. This FTF occurred on WWB 165gr FMJ. I'm not a big fan of WWB, but it has always worked for me in the past.

          I'm going to try to make it to the range later this week to run it through its paces while clean. I'll keep y'all posted.

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