break-in period for new guns

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thequickad

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Recently I experienced my first failure to feed on my new Walther P99 9mm. It's fairly frustrating having a jam every round and I gave up trying to "break-in" after 150 rounds or so. Can someone shed some lights on so called "breaking-in" period? Thank you!

[Edited by thequickad on 12-24-2000 at 01:53 PM]
 
Man, that sucks - every round? something besides a breaking in needs to happen to that gun. Generally, on a new pistol I will field strip it, clean it, and make sure there is trace lubrication on all the important places. I usually consider 'em broken in after about 2 or 3 hundred rounds of no choke range time. If they choke, I find out what is going on and start the qualification all over, only had to do that once.
 
If I'd dropped the scratch that a Walther costs and it jammed every round, it would go back to the factory. Period. I wouldn't fall for the "break in" excuse, all that does is put mileage on it.
 
I have seen posts that earlier 9mm P99s were somewhat fussy about ammunition, and performed better with 124 grain bullets. The P99 that I owned did not have this problem; it worked with both 115 grain and 124 grain ammunition. I never had a jam with mine (nearly 5,000 rounds).

Is it really jamming every round? What ammunition are you using?
 
Break in? Aren't we supposed to just take them out of the box and bring them right into a combat situation? :D j/k...I'd say that when you can feed a couple of boxes flawlessly, through every mag, your firearm is broken in.
 
I was using Winchester 115 FMJ and CCI Blazer 115 FMJ. Both are factory rounds. I did strip and clean. But seem to have problem with extraction which caused the next round to stovepipe. It's very frustrating. It can't be a magazine fault since I tried both factory P99 10-rd mags. I did notice that the spring is very strong and maybe the 115-gr rounds are not powerful enought to push it all the way back?
 
I have told everybody here thinking about buying a Walther to do so. I have posted that my locked open on some ammo- CCI Blazer the most. I recently bought 200 rounds to make myself want to buy a Kimber. It went through all of them without nary a sniffle. In fact it has not jammed up on me since the first month.

I would say that you got a lemon and this is not the normal operation of a new Walther. Give Earl a call at www.walther-usa.com and he may have a quick fix over the phone. Steer clear of hand reloads for a while. I do not reload, but have recently shot a box without problems. I hope something happens to turn you into a Walther fan soon as we are the red headed step-children of this BB.
 
The P99 is tight and does have a stiff spring. However, I had no problem with the 115 grain Winchester USA in mine, as well as 115 S&B and 115 PMC. Check with Earl, but I believe his site is http://www.waltherusa.net/

In the meantime, try a box of 124 grain to see if it makes a difference. Aguila, IMI, and Federal M882 all worked for me.
 
Quick - I have to agree with hube1236, I hope that you are still a Walther fan when this is all over. My P99 has been faultless so far, BUT - it's a .40. I know that means it's a whole different critter, but just for encouragement - mine is very accurate, feels great in my hand & has gobbled up whatever I fed it. As has been said, this is probably either a quick-fix or you simply got the bad one in the batch. Either way, I can't believe that Walther won't take good care of you. :D Good Luck, & let us know what happens. Oak

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