another okie
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My Springfield has started occasionally wrinkling the last case in a magazine and jamming it in the ejection ramp. It's happened both with my handloads and with factory ammo. It creates a truly ugly jam, very slow to clear, and makes the magazine almost impossible to remove.
I took the gun and the mag it had happened in to a gunsmith. The same thing happened on his second or third try. He said the extractor was fine, and the eight round Wilson magazines had a follower which was too high. He also pointed out that the magazine now had a slightly bowed right lip from having the shell casing shoved under it.
I came home and loaded several of my mags with one round. One of the other Wilson mags now jammed in this way, but not any of the others. My three Wilson mags, which represent quite an investment, are the eight rounders with a plastic base and follower. The follower is concave.
I called Wilson Combat in Arkansas. I got right through to a technician, which is nice. He had me check the extractor tension (fine) and do some practice ejecting with a dummy round. I said the rounds were in general ejecting straight to the right, or occasionally not ejecting if I worked the slide slowly. He concluded that the ejector was not working correctly.
I went back outside with all four of my non-Wilson mags and loaded each with one round and fired them. Each fed and ejected properly. I did this six times, no ejection problems whatsoever.
I then compared the two magazines carefully. It's hard to compare how they look loaded in the gun because the Wilson mags are polished and the others are black, but if there are any differences in the metal body they are very small indeed. However, the Wilson followers are much longer. The factory follower are about 1 1/4" long and the Wilson followers are about 1 3/4" long. The factory followers also seem to point up more than the Wilsons. Obviously at this point I'm leaning towards it being the magazines, but I guess it could be a little of both a weak ejector and a long follower causing the case to tip slightly as it is extracted.
Well, fortunately it's getting too hot here for any IDPA and IPSC shooting for a while. What are your thoughts?
I took the gun and the mag it had happened in to a gunsmith. The same thing happened on his second or third try. He said the extractor was fine, and the eight round Wilson magazines had a follower which was too high. He also pointed out that the magazine now had a slightly bowed right lip from having the shell casing shoved under it.
I came home and loaded several of my mags with one round. One of the other Wilson mags now jammed in this way, but not any of the others. My three Wilson mags, which represent quite an investment, are the eight rounders with a plastic base and follower. The follower is concave.
I called Wilson Combat in Arkansas. I got right through to a technician, which is nice. He had me check the extractor tension (fine) and do some practice ejecting with a dummy round. I said the rounds were in general ejecting straight to the right, or occasionally not ejecting if I worked the slide slowly. He concluded that the ejector was not working correctly.
I went back outside with all four of my non-Wilson mags and loaded each with one round and fired them. Each fed and ejected properly. I did this six times, no ejection problems whatsoever.
I then compared the two magazines carefully. It's hard to compare how they look loaded in the gun because the Wilson mags are polished and the others are black, but if there are any differences in the metal body they are very small indeed. However, the Wilson followers are much longer. The factory follower are about 1 1/4" long and the Wilson followers are about 1 3/4" long. The factory followers also seem to point up more than the Wilsons. Obviously at this point I'm leaning towards it being the magazines, but I guess it could be a little of both a weak ejector and a long follower causing the case to tip slightly as it is extracted.
Well, fortunately it's getting too hot here for any IDPA and IPSC shooting for a while. What are your thoughts?