[schmeky]

Took my new EAA Witness .45 to the range today and had something happen I have heard of, but have never seen before.

About half way through a mag of my pet handload that uses a 200 gn LSWC hard cast bullet, a stoppage occurred in which an unfired round was sticking straight up, fully out of the mag. This round was pinched between the barrel throat and the breech face. I extracted this round, reinserted it into the mag, and it fed and fired fine.

In 125 rounds, this was my only problem. Gun and mag are new, mag was clean with no binding or sticking noted. Is this a weak mag spring issue?

[rcmodel]

Probably more to do with the short 200 LSWC.

It just escaped the magazine feed lips somehow before it should have, once in 125 times.

I wouldn't get overly concerned unless it starts doing it with 230 RN!

rcmodel

[schmeky]

rc,

I use the H&G 200 LSWC, which has the same overall length as 230 RNL. I have looked closely and suspect the Witness supplied magazine. I have a spare Mec-Gar for my CZ-97 I'm going to try out on the next range trip.