in the various recent threads re: Para pistols, I've repeatedly responded to reports of unreliability by citing my own experience: gun quite tight when new, with some failures to feed, then settling down nicely with no more problems.
Fired 100 handloaded 185 gr truncated cone rounds, and 100 230 gr hardball Winchester loads yesterday, and began having frequent--as in once per magazine- failure to feed. Always the same: top round not fully picked up by the slide, tipped sharply up so the bullet jams on the top rim of the chamber.
Then I noticed that the follower was sticking, so that there was little upward pressure on the cartridges.
Then I remembered the owner's manual making what I thought was an odd reccommendation: clean your mag every time you clean the gun. I did that in the beginning, but haven't for a long time. So I did so, and guess what? No more FTF.
Maybe it's the double-stack mags, or Para mags in general, that are the source of the jamming reports. You've just gotta keep 'em clean.
Fired 100 handloaded 185 gr truncated cone rounds, and 100 230 gr hardball Winchester loads yesterday, and began having frequent--as in once per magazine- failure to feed. Always the same: top round not fully picked up by the slide, tipped sharply up so the bullet jams on the top rim of the chamber.
Then I noticed that the follower was sticking, so that there was little upward pressure on the cartridges.
Then I remembered the owner's manual making what I thought was an odd reccommendation: clean your mag every time you clean the gun. I did that in the beginning, but haven't for a long time. So I did so, and guess what? No more FTF.
Maybe it's the double-stack mags, or Para mags in general, that are the source of the jamming reports. You've just gotta keep 'em clean.
