Baby eagle .40 polymer?

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This is my first thread so bear with me please. I just bought a Uzi eagle polymer in 40 s&w, I was told that they are identical to the baby eagle. Is this correct? If so what are your experiences with them?

I bought the gun because it fit my hand better than the G27 I carry now and it was a good deal,$375 tax in w/two mags and nite sights. I test fired the gun at the dealer, it was so dry than it rattled the slide catch out after some lube it operated fine except it would fail to feed with factory ammo (magtech and CCI blazer) but seemed to be fine with my reduced power reloads. The dealer told me it only had 150 rds. through so it may need broke in. I plan on going to the range today with Remington factory loads and some cor-bon to see if it will feed those.

Any insight or thoughts are welcome. I highly revere your opinions on this sight, you guys and gals have really taught me alot. THANK YOU!!!!!
 
Mr

The one my friend has does the same thing. Don't know how to keep that latch IN the gun where it belongs. Embarassing to shoot & re-insert latch all the time.

Yodar
 
I tried the Remington 180gr. FMJ tonight it digested those ok with only one fail to feed out of a box of fifty. The Cor-bons fed with no problems at all. I also put 300 rds. of my reloads through it after the factory ammo, with only two FTF's. Appearantly it did need broken in because the FTF's were on the first magazines of reloads. I still would some more input on your experience's with them. The slide catch has not come loose since it was lubed.
 
well, i had a number of failure to fire on my full size 9mm baby eagle. It was averaging one fire every 6 rounds or so. Which quite upset me as it was VERY comfortable to shoot, and also very accurate at the ranges I was shooting.

In the end I wound up disassembling the firing pin assembly and checking things out. It appeared to have a fairly greasy lube in it with a LOT of crap gunged up in there. The firing pin spring is also fairly beefy and probably gets better with breaking in.

after clening it out thoroughly, and reassembling, I got one failure to fire in about 170 rounds at the range. I'm going to give it several hundred more before I decide if it is fixed or not.

Before the uber detail cleaning I also got a gouple failure to extracts and one failure to feed (with some surplus winchester reloads with truncated cone profiles catching while feeding). I noticed some of that greasy junk had remained in the nooks and crannies of the extractor and other bits. The stuff gets nasty once it starts collecting powder residue. (I also stripped and cleaned the magazines for good measure)

I blame the nast greasy lube IMI guns come shipped in. My DE had the same junk on it, and it caused a number of problems with it until I got it out of every crack and crevice (dunno if it needed it, but i did a detail strip of the bolt as well).

The best tool I was able to come up with to get in the little tiny areas was to take q-tips with paper shafts, strip off the cotton, put a drop of solvent on the end, bash the tip againsst a hard flat surface a few time to make it mushroom a little and basically create a small hard swab from it that TENDS to not leave residue behind.

Dunno if you meant failure to feed or failure to fire, but I think a serious detail cleaning helps with both.
 
Thanks for the info. I meant fail to feed, it's always a great idea to get as much information as possible about a new gun. I will strip mine tonight and see if that gunk may be a contributing factor to my problem.
 
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