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Well, after 3250 trigger pulls that resulted in a bang, I finally pulled the trigger today with no result. It made me a little sad. I'm not sure if it was a problem with the gun or the ammo. I was using the USA reloaded ammo.
The culprit was a light primer strike.
It was in a Friday night IPSC style league. I was moving to a shooting position while doing a reload. There was already a round in the chamber. When I fired at the next target the striker went forward and nothing happened. I thought at first that I must have run the gun dry with my thumb on the slide release so that it didn't lock back, and there wasn't a bullet in the chamber. I racked the slide and a live round popped out. I continued to finish the course and went back and grabbed the round afterward. There was a nice little dent in the primer.
How often is something like this the guns fault, and how often the ammo's fault? Or is it a tossup?
As a side note, one of the shooters on my squad today (and the RO for all of my runs) was Mark from this season of Top Shot
. He's a local guy and I heard he was a regular at this club, although I had never met him until tonight. Mark and Cliff (also on this season of Top Shot) were both at the IDPA event this past Sunday, but were on a different squad and didn't get to see either of them shoot.
The culprit was a light primer strike.
It was in a Friday night IPSC style league. I was moving to a shooting position while doing a reload. There was already a round in the chamber. When I fired at the next target the striker went forward and nothing happened. I thought at first that I must have run the gun dry with my thumb on the slide release so that it didn't lock back, and there wasn't a bullet in the chamber. I racked the slide and a live round popped out. I continued to finish the course and went back and grabbed the round afterward. There was a nice little dent in the primer.
How often is something like this the guns fault, and how often the ammo's fault? Or is it a tossup?
As a side note, one of the shooters on my squad today (and the RO for all of my runs) was Mark from this season of Top Shot