redactor
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Yesterday, I had what I believe to be a squib load out of a box of Wolf 100 gr. 9x18 Makarov.
While firing my CZ-82, I had downloaded my magazines to 3 rounds each. I was doing 3 round strings, dropping my empty magazines on the ground, performing a slide-lock reload (IDPA practice), then another 3 round string.
I had been shooting for about 10 minutes this way, when I performed a slide-lock reload, pressed the trigger and instead of "bang" I just got a mushy trigger pull. I stopped, and my slide had failed to return to battery. Tap the magazine, rack the slide, and still failed to return to battery.
So, I locked the slide back and dropped the magazine. There was what appeared to be plastic shavings all dumped inside the action, causing my cartridges not to chamber. I'm thankful that they did.
I field stripped the pistol, and sure enough... there was a bullet lodged about 1/4 the way down the barrel. I will tap it out when I get home this evening, and hopefully I won't find two lodged in there.
Some observations:
1. I am a lucky man.
2. I did not notice anything out of the ordinary before the FTRB.
3. Had that "plastic" fouling not gummed up the chamber, I'm confident that the stuck bullet was far enough down that the next round would have chambered.
4. The squib apparently had generated enough pressure to lock the slide back normally. Recoil was not noticeably reduced, and neither was the noise.
I did not recover the case to see if there was something obviously wrong with it. Maybe I'll stop back by there on my way home tonight and try again to find it.
This cartridge was recently manufactured, I think in 2007. I will see if there is a lot number stamped inside the box when I get home tonight, and post with an update.
While firing my CZ-82, I had downloaded my magazines to 3 rounds each. I was doing 3 round strings, dropping my empty magazines on the ground, performing a slide-lock reload (IDPA practice), then another 3 round string.
I had been shooting for about 10 minutes this way, when I performed a slide-lock reload, pressed the trigger and instead of "bang" I just got a mushy trigger pull. I stopped, and my slide had failed to return to battery. Tap the magazine, rack the slide, and still failed to return to battery.
So, I locked the slide back and dropped the magazine. There was what appeared to be plastic shavings all dumped inside the action, causing my cartridges not to chamber. I'm thankful that they did.
I field stripped the pistol, and sure enough... there was a bullet lodged about 1/4 the way down the barrel. I will tap it out when I get home this evening, and hopefully I won't find two lodged in there.
Some observations:
1. I am a lucky man.
2. I did not notice anything out of the ordinary before the FTRB.
3. Had that "plastic" fouling not gummed up the chamber, I'm confident that the stuck bullet was far enough down that the next round would have chambered.
4. The squib apparently had generated enough pressure to lock the slide back normally. Recoil was not noticeably reduced, and neither was the noise.
I did not recover the case to see if there was something obviously wrong with it. Maybe I'll stop back by there on my way home tonight and try again to find it.
This cartridge was recently manufactured, I think in 2007. I will see if there is a lot number stamped inside the box when I get home tonight, and post with an update.
