Need some advide..Ruger LCP issue

[bambam1723]

Went out yesterday and decided to put 100 rounds through it. I used American Eagle .380 and the gun was flawless through the 80 rounds. I decided I was content with that. BUT...I decided to shoot my carry ammo, Hornady Critical Defense. I only had 7 rounds with me as that was what I walked in with it loaded with.

During the 7 rounds of Hornady CD the gun failed to eject a round again. Doing the same thing as before, it left the round in the chamber and tried to double feed. I had to completely drop the mag to eject the spent round...not good. :banghead:

Needless to say, the gun is currently packaged up and on its way back to Ruger for repairs.

On a bright note, Ruger has been great to deal with and I feel there customer service is top notch. Hopefully they can fix the gun.

 

[CZguy]

Ruger has been great to deal with and I feel there customer service is top notch. Hopefully they can fix the gun.

Please let us know how it works. (when you get it back)

 

[AKElroy]

fair enough, but where does it end? i see a lot of apologists on these threads to whom no number of rounds seems sufficient. it sounds like the OP is already at 100 rounds with a handful of failures. is 200 enough? what about the 1911 guys who say you need to run 1000? hey, i like 1911s too, but mine didn't seem to need the mythical 1000 round break-in.

At 963 rounds exactly.

 

[miket]

A cheap way to "break in"... Buy snap caps. Clean/lube initially then rack the sh*t out of the slide with snap caps. A few hundred times. Clean/lube a few times during the process to remove any manufacturing flashing, metal particulate, etc. It isn't that hard and only takes a night or two in front of the TV (or whatever). I figure if I can rack the slide and feed/eject snap caps reliably as fast as I can do it by hand, then that is a GREAT indicator of how it will perform on the range with ball ammo. I've never been wrong with any semi-auto by doing this. If there's problems with the snap caps, there most likely WILL be problems with live fire. Address the issue with the snap caps before firing... Again, this is a CHEAP way to accelerate break in without wasting ammo or having to break out the Dremel/sandpaper.

 

[Girodin]

Mine has been flawless from the first shot. The first thing I shot through it was Hornady critical defense ironically enough.

I've shot various other round no malfunctions. Blazer aluminum case was mentioned I have shot one box of the stuff with no problems.

 

[bambam1723]

I got it back on Friday. The note from Ruger said that they changed the extractor and then ran 24 rounds through it with no problems.

I just bought 50 rounds of .380 today and I have around 20 left from my last outing.

I need to sight in my 10/22 here in a couple weeks so I will put the LCP through it's paces that day and see how it does with those 70 rounds. I'm not going to baby it as this is a piece I carry quite often. For me to trust it, it has to prove itself. If it doesn't, it will move on.

On a side note the extractor they put in looks a little beat up with visible wear marks. Could this have happened from the 24 rounds they put through it. We shall see if the problem is fixed.

 

[V1ROT8]

My LCP has enjoyed every brand and type of ammo I have fed it.

 

[ohwell]

How do you clean and lube it? My LCP likes to be cleaned with Breakfree or Outers Trilube. Than I put a thin layer of gun oil in the barrel and sparingly lube the rails and lugs with a light synthectic grease, It cycles flawlessly. Hornady Critical Defense loads shoot like a dream so do some 92 grain FMJ Winchesters I bought, they were obviously made for Winchester by Sellier and Bellot

 

[m2steven]

based upon my experience the LCP normally does not have the problem you describe. I don't think it's a break in problem. Polishing the ramp might help, but i think the suggestions to send it to Ruger are the correct ones. Most of these little guns perform really well.

 

[mm6mm6]

bambam, I'm sorry to hear about your situation. My LCP has been 100% reliable through around 400 rounds of various ammo. Hornady Critical Defense ammo feeds perfectly (25 rounds through the gun). There are 12 of us at work who carry the LCP and not a single one of them has jammed or misfed or failed to extract yet. We've been very impressed with the gun.

We all pretty much clean the guns with Hoppes 9 and lubricate the slide rails with various standard gun oils, one drop per rail on the frame and one drop per rail on the slide.

One thing I haven't seen anyone else mention is the magazine(s). Do you have only one mag or did the problems occur with several mags? Good luck!

 

[exdetsgt]

I have an LCP. I don't like shooting more than 20-30 rounds through it because at that point my hand starts talking to me. So I did that until I got to 200 and then quit. Not a single problem, and never cleaned/lubed it once. I'd still rather carry my J-frame Chiefs Special. It's bigger, heavier, but I don't worry about stovepipes, FTE's, etc. However, the LCP fits in a pants pocket; the J-frame doesn't lend itself to pocket carry. No free lunch.

 

[tomwalshco]

I've had a KT 3AT for a number of months now and (knock on wood) have never had a single jam issue.

But all these little guys are lighter, faster, closer tolerances and a little burr here or there can be a cronic issue, where a .45 or .40 justs bulls through. I think break-in is very important, but the little ones are not comfortable to shoot and ammo is as scarce as an honest politician. It will settle in with a few hundred rounds through....

 

[wrs840]

FWIW, I've had an LCP for about 5 months now, I've run about 250 rounds of PMC bronze FMJ and about 150 rounds of Speer GD HP through it with zero malfunctions. I bought it because I ran into a LEO buddy at a local gun store and mentioned I'd like to find something comfortable to CC in the kind of light shorts he was wearing at the time... he pulled an LCP out of his back pocket.

I reminded him he used to poo-poo .380s. He told me some of the newer SD .380 is better than it used to be (and mentioned Hornady Critical defense specifically), but continued that mostly his lack of trust in .380s was based in his belief that compact-auto mechanisms are historically poor contenders to get reliable performance out of, but his experience was that Ruger seemed to have cleared that hurdle impressively with the LCP, from his personal experience, and a that of a bunch of other LEOs down at the FOP range who are surprisingly impressed with the reliability of this new little BUG. This may be a long way of saying: I agree with those who say the OP is not likely experiencing a "break-in" problem, his particular specimen has a defect.


My Brother has a KT P3AT and an LCP and has no complaints, IIRC, he's had zero malfunctions with both.

He says he likes the LCP better only because the the P3AT has more aggressive checkering on the grip, and it abrades the skin on his hand pretty quickly when firing it.

I know for sure he's using Hornady Critical Defense in his LCP now, and has been for the past couple of months, and says he thinks he groups smaller with it. I haven't tried Hornady CD yet in mine, but I've got 250 rounds of it on the way from Natchez, so I'll post if I have a problem.

Les