There are a number of reasons as to why a gun can malfunction from mechanical problems to a bad round, as well as poor shooting technique. Ensuring your weapon is routinely clean can also eliminate jamming problems as well. Occasional jams can happen to anyone, including those who depend on their weapon in their career. If you are experiencing frequent jams, however, you should take your weapon to a professional to ensure safety and proper firing efficiency. Below, we at Shooting Range Industries would like to share common problems that lead to your firearm being jammed.
Failure to Feed : When the next round has not been properly fed into the chamber, it is known as failure to feed. Older ammunition, especially military surplus ammo, has likely been stored improperly at least some time during its long life. Excessive moisture can cause primers and powder to not fire properly if at all.
Even modern commercially-manufactured ammunition can have problems. Faulty primers result in failures to fire, and cases can become deformed during the manufacturing process so that they will not feed properly.
The best way to avoid ammo-related jams and malfunctions in your firearm is to purchase good ammo. If you reload your own ammunition, be observant and intentional as you do so. If your pistol is normally reliable but starts to experience malfunctions, check your ammo for deformities and try a different batch before you blame the gun. Another reason that a pistol may jam is due to poor shooting technique.
A pistol requires a stable platform while firing in order to operate correctly. This is when the shooter fails to control the recoil of the pistol, allowing it to buck backward violently. Shooting with a relaxed wrist or grip causes this. This can easily be solved by gripping the pistol tighter and locking your wrist into place. Worn out springs can also cause a pistol to jam. The springs that are most likely to cause malfunctions are the recoil spring, extractor spring, and hammer spring.
Striker-fired pistols, such as Glocks, have a striker spring instead of a hammer spring. Worn out recoil and extractor springs can prevent the firearm from extracting the previous case, causing a malfunction.
Old hammer or striker springs can cause the firing pin to not hit the primer with enough force to ignite it, causing a light strike. Worn out springs are most commonly found on older guns and those that have been shot a lot. My experience with this was with a Hungarian clone of a Browning Hi-Power. I struggled with numerous failures to extract, which were caused by the recoil and extractor springs. The slide cycled too fast as a result of the worn recoil spring. These two issues combined together to create a very unreliable firearm.
Once again, I used Wolff Gun Springs for the job. A broken part or parts is another reason that a pistol will jam. This will result in sudden malfunctions that repeat over and over. If your gun is running fine one second and then starts having the same type of malfunction multiple times, stop what you are doing, unload the gun, and inspect it. Springs are also common breakage parts, particularly trigger return springs. Unless you are competent at firearms repair, it is best to take your pistol to a gunsmith if you suspect that a part is broken.
This may not be the most helpful thing to say but it is important to know. Poor quality handguns are generally more prone to suffer from malfunctions than those produced by higher-end manufacturers. Firearms produced by Glock, CZ, Beretta, and other established companies generally have pretty good track records. Of the two, lubrication is particularly crucial. A properly manufactured and set up , for example, can be extremely reliable particularly in.
The action and extractor star of revolvers can also accumulate a lot of grime and unburned powder particles, rendering them sluggish and eventually inoperable so care must be taken here too, from time to time. Not only will handguns of all types eventually begin to experience issues due to increasing friction impeding the feed cycle, the increased grit and grime will wear metal to metal components faster than would otherwise be the case.
A cleaned and lubricated firearm, particularly one which a citizen depends upon for personal protection, will ensure it remains trustworthy in a defensive emergency.
Follow a cleaning schedule relevant to the amount you shoot, and make sure your guns are in the best condition for reliability. Guns which are seldom shot perish the thought!
The factory manual, or the friendly customer service department of the manufacturer s are a great place to get specific information if you are uncertain about anything related to the best maintenance practices for your firearm. The slide has to travel rapidly, even violently, to the forward position to properly seat the bullet in the chamber.
A failure to extract can be traced generally to one of several things — a dirty chamber or dirty bullet case makes friction hold the case with more strength than the extractor can apply, and the empty shell stays in the chamber. Another cause can be a damaged extractor — generally a claw-like device that clips over the bottom edge of the shell and pulls it out of the chamber with the rearward motion of the slide.
A failure to eject can also have more than one reason for occurring. It can be a damaged or faulty ejector — this is the piece that is located near the end of the rearward path of the spent shell, and causes it to kick out of the extractor with some force, causing it to fly clear of the pistol.
The gun slips in the hand of the shooter, the slide moves only part way to the rear, short-stroking instead of traveling completely to the rear of the slide rails. The gun then fails to extract, or eject.
Sometimes, the pistol in question is on the lower end of the economic scale, and at the risk of hurting their feelings, we ask them if they really want to trust their lives to a piece of junk, for which they all too often have paid an exorbitant price.
But digressions and preaching about junker guns aside, we will take the gun, stick a fully loaded magazine in it and almost always empty the magazine into the target with no failure whatsoever.
A semi-automatic pistol operates off recoil, right? When the slide goes backwards, several actions are initiated to make the gun ready to fire again.
As the shell fires and the bullet travels out the barrel, the claw-like extractor pulls the spent case out of the chamber, ripping it backwards with the rearward motion of the slide. As it travels backwards, the ejector forces it out and away from the extractor, causing it to pop from the slide and clear the gun.
0コメント