Sistema Burp
mlheppl said:
I like the gun for the most part, but it's got a problem feeding rounds when the slide is racked. The bullet tip does not come out of the clip fully.
Hmmm
Aha! I think ya mean the top round nose-dives into the feed ramp.
That's almost always a magazine issue. Assuming that the feed lips are
straight and the mag tube is otherwise healthy, the first suspect is the
angle of the follower. The next thing in line is the spring itself. Tired
magazine springs can fail to keep tension on the front of the round.
There's always a possibility that the magazine is simply wrong for the gun,
and will work fine in other guns. Rare, but it happens.
I've got over a hundred magazines. Out of the whole kit and kaboodle, there's one Colt magazine that does that trick in my Norinco and in none
of my others...and I've got a BUNCH of 1911s...All my other magazines
work fine in the Norinco...It's just the one, and nobody seems to know
why except the gun.
If you can't find somebody who has a good magazine for ya to try, PM me and I'll send you my loaner. It's due back today. Meanwhile, try
loading the magazine one round short and see if it doesn't do better.
Just to eliminate one other slight possibility...Field-strip the gun and
lay the barrel into the frame. Put the slidestop pin back through the frame and barrel link. Push the barrel down and back as far as it will go, and look at the junction of the feed ramp and the barrel throat. If the barrel overhangs the ramp at the back...or if it is even flush with the top of the ramp, that would be a player. There should be a gap of about a 32nd of an inch.
This PROBABLY isn't the cause...If it was, the gun would likely be hanging up at random anywhere in the magazine. Rule of thumb: Magazine problems most often show up on the top round in a full magazine, or on the last round. The middle rounds at random generally indicate that something in the gun is out of whack. Not etched in stone...just most often.
Luck!
Tuner
