ZombieHunter
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I'm fairly certain that I'm responsible for this however I'm searching for possible causes.
After having taken my pistol to the range about once a month I went through a dry spell of probably close to 3 months. I cleaned and lightly oiled it and left it in my basement with me, for a few days until I noticed that my HD gun was beginning to get some extremely light rusting on the black (or is that "blued"?) parts that had markings on it (like on the barrel or the side of the frame). So I sadly stuck my HD gun in the closet 3 floors above my head where it's now just a paperweight.
That being said I decided to go to the range the other day and out of 100 rounds had maybe 6 FTEs. Obviously for something that my life could depend on that's a HORRIBLE statistic. But I had also noticed that there was little to no visible oil on the gun and looked mostly like I hadn't oiled it. So I grabbed a bottle of lube from the range and dropped a few drops on the parts that touched and a few drops on the feed ramp (as I imagine the part that guides the bullets from the magazine into the chamber would be called) and yet still had a few FTEs.
About half of those were what I imagine a "smoke stack" would be, where the slide slams back down but closes halfway with a new round going in and a spent case sticking up 90^ to the slide and then the other half looked like the extractor pin (again, what I imagine you call the thingy that grabs the case when the slide goes back) slipped off and left a spent case behind while the gun tried to feed a new round effectively wedging it into place.
All were cleared awkwardly but safely. To date I've only had trouble with the gun on the first 100 rounds I put downrange but that was my fault for failing to RTFM when I first bought the gun. Apparently guns should be cleaned and oiled before first using...who knew :banghead: Between then and now I've shot probably 1200 rounds.
So what do you think the problem was? Poor form (I seem to recall them happening in the beginning of my session vs. later)? Poor gun maintance? Over oiling? Oil + fouling? Poor cleaning? I'm ruling out any gun malfunction as this was a first time thing.
After having taken my pistol to the range about once a month I went through a dry spell of probably close to 3 months. I cleaned and lightly oiled it and left it in my basement with me, for a few days until I noticed that my HD gun was beginning to get some extremely light rusting on the black (or is that "blued"?) parts that had markings on it (like on the barrel or the side of the frame). So I sadly stuck my HD gun in the closet 3 floors above my head where it's now just a paperweight.
That being said I decided to go to the range the other day and out of 100 rounds had maybe 6 FTEs. Obviously for something that my life could depend on that's a HORRIBLE statistic. But I had also noticed that there was little to no visible oil on the gun and looked mostly like I hadn't oiled it. So I grabbed a bottle of lube from the range and dropped a few drops on the parts that touched and a few drops on the feed ramp (as I imagine the part that guides the bullets from the magazine into the chamber would be called) and yet still had a few FTEs.
About half of those were what I imagine a "smoke stack" would be, where the slide slams back down but closes halfway with a new round going in and a spent case sticking up 90^ to the slide and then the other half looked like the extractor pin (again, what I imagine you call the thingy that grabs the case when the slide goes back) slipped off and left a spent case behind while the gun tried to feed a new round effectively wedging it into place.
All were cleared awkwardly but safely. To date I've only had trouble with the gun on the first 100 rounds I put downrange but that was my fault for failing to RTFM when I first bought the gun. Apparently guns should be cleaned and oiled before first using...who knew :banghead: Between then and now I've shot probably 1200 rounds.
So what do you think the problem was? Poor form (I seem to recall them happening in the beginning of my session vs. later)? Poor gun maintance? Over oiling? Oil + fouling? Poor cleaning? I'm ruling out any gun malfunction as this was a first time thing.
