Am I Limpwristing?

[Tecolote]

I call on the collective wisdom of THR, am I a limpwrister?

I was out on the range with my buddy's CZ75B. He had one failure to eject last week, but today it was running like a top. He let me have a go with Remington FMJ, I fired one mag without any issues. I was slow firing for accuracy and the shells were landing really close by, a couple of shells hit me on the head. On the second mag I had a failure to eject. I tightened my grip and fired the remaining rounds in the mag and after another mag without any issues. I noticed that on the remaining rounds the shells ejected further.

My buddy says my limpwristing caused the failure to eject. I thought that limpwristing caused stovepipes not failures to eject. Is he right?

 

[hksw]

It sounds like it.

A stoveppe is a form of failure to eject. When you say failure to eject, do you mean failure ro extract (case still in or partially in the chamber)? Or, the case is out of the chamber but just wedged between the barrel and slide without the mouth sticking out 90°?

 

[hksw]

Huh. Don't know what happened. I only clicked the submit button once.

 

[Tecolote]

You're right, it was a failure to eject, empty shell was lodged in the chamber and the next round in the mag was lodged against the chambered shell. I dropped the mag, pulled back the slide, and the empty shell slide down the mag well. I re-inserted the mag, worked the slide and proceeded to fire without any additional issues.

 

[1SOW]

Just as an added thought. I tried to limp wrist my 75B and couldn't. I was down to two fingers with target loads.
IMHO: The heavy gun probably has enough mass/inertia to make it unlikely to have this problem.

 

[Canuc Shooter]

I've found that if I limpwrist with almost all my autoloaders I have ejection/feeding problems. Most of it happens during defensive pistol practice sessions, usually during a onehanded-week hand scenario.

 

[Beskytte]

My friend also owns a CZ75B in SA. It's at 100% through a few hundred rounds, would have to ask him for the exact number. I do know that limp wristing can cause these kind of problems, but I agree with 1SOW; it's almost impossible for this because of the weight. This was also the first pistol that either of us fired, and we never limp wristed it, think his wife does sometimes.... but still no FTE or anything. ever.

Another thought though, since you say it's extracting funny, or a little close, might it be a brand-new/ newish gun? We had this same thing happen, it could be a feed ramp problem or as simple as the feed ramp is dirty or needs to be polished. NOTE: polished, not modified or sanded in any way. He, my friend, used some metal polishing paste to make the feed ramp smooth and shiny, after that, almost no ejection weirdness. You might want to try this before asking a gunsmith or a CZ place to look at it.

 

[Walkalong]

I have tried to make my guns fail from "limp wristing", but they won't malfunction. They just keep on working.

 

[acn001]

What about a 4" 1911. I have had some feeding issues time and time again. Some say it is from limp wristing. Others say its the mags I am using...??? I have tried wolfsons and now I am on power mags. We all know the factory mags suck ass.

Kimber was saying that I should change the recoil spring every 800 rounds. So this I did and have yet to test it out. Going to range tomorrow. Justed wanted some thoughts or opinions.

 

[Crazy Fingers]

I think limpwristing is possible. I also think that it is often used as an excuse by a poor company who doesn't want to fix something, or by an owner who wants to believe that his pistol is more reliable than it really is.

 

[StorkPatrol]

Tecolote, replace the extractor spring with an exta power one from Wolff Gunsprings. I had failures to extract with my CZ-75B that I bought about 6 weeks ago. The Wolff spring fixed it.

Re: Limpwristing, I also think this is an excuse used to justify owning expensive yet unreliable guns. Is it possible? Yes, but then there are also guns out there that won't jam no matter how loose your grip is.

--Stork

 

[hemiram]

Any of my guns that "limpwrist" aren't my guns very much longer. I think it's just an excuse to overlook issues. I have held a couple of my guns with a ridiculously loose hold, and they just fire away.