I had a new experience at the range this weekend, which I'm guessing is ammo-related, but I want to ask in case anyone knows better.
Shooting my Beretta Pico, which has generally been reliable across brands of training ammo -- apart from occasionally not feeding when it was brand new -- I had about four instances out of 50 rounds in which unburned gunpowder blew back at me. Thankfully I was wearing safety glasses because it got in my hair and on my face. Twice it blew back at me, and twice I felt it hit my forearms and it got on the bench.
In addition, I had two failures to extract spent brass. This was all with Maxx Tech ammo, which I bulk-ordered recently. The first box of it ran fine a few weeks ago. Since then I've cleaned and oiled the gun.
If powder is blowing back at me, doesn't that mean it's coming out of the ejection port? Otherwise I'd think it would blow forward and get burned.
So can anyone explain what's going on? Is this definitely a result of the ammo brand? Or could it be a malfunction in the gun.
BTW, the FTE's and and the powder blowback were unrelated to each other (i.e. I didn't experience them on the same round).
Shooting my Beretta Pico, which has generally been reliable across brands of training ammo -- apart from occasionally not feeding when it was brand new -- I had about four instances out of 50 rounds in which unburned gunpowder blew back at me. Thankfully I was wearing safety glasses because it got in my hair and on my face. Twice it blew back at me, and twice I felt it hit my forearms and it got on the bench.
In addition, I had two failures to extract spent brass. This was all with Maxx Tech ammo, which I bulk-ordered recently. The first box of it ran fine a few weeks ago. Since then I've cleaned and oiled the gun.
If powder is blowing back at me, doesn't that mean it's coming out of the ejection port? Otherwise I'd think it would blow forward and get burned.
So can anyone explain what's going on? Is this definitely a result of the ammo brand? Or could it be a malfunction in the gun.
BTW, the FTE's and and the powder blowback were unrelated to each other (i.e. I didn't experience them on the same round).