Failure to Eject

[Modifiedbrowning]

Went to range(finally got my girlfriend to go too) and while she was shooting my HK P9S the gun fired but the casing FTE. Had to rack the slide to eject the spent casing. The range only allows lead bullets as it is indoors and I bought the ammo from them. I have never had this problem with jacketed ammo. I'm thinking that she either limpwristed the gun or the reloaded bullet did not fully cycle the slide. Any ideas?

P.S. Any tips for cleaning after firing lead rounds?

 

[stans]

Limp wristing or low power ammo.

 

[jimmy]

For comparison, the ejection of my Glock 30 varies notably when my wife shoots it. It ejects strongly and consistently for me. For her, ejection is weak and somewhat erratic. The pistol checks out mechanically, so the difference is almost certainly her grip. However, she's a revolver person.

For cleaning lead out of a barrel, I favor the Lewis Lead Remover, which is available from Brownells. Its low-tech brass mesh system works for me, although persistence is sometimes required to get out the last lumps and smears.

HTH.

 

[hksigwalther]

I went shooting one time not long ago with a few other people who were getting into shooting (letting them shoot some of my stuff) which included my sister. While watching her, I did notice that the ejection pattern for the empties coming out of my SIG P226 were barely (less than a foot out of the port) coming out most of the time. There was also 1 failure of the slide from fully going forward. At first I was thinking that the gun had gone dry of oil but found that hard to believe as I normally lube my guns judiciously before any shooting, so what the heck is wrong with my SIG? It's never done this before. Some of the other male shooters, myself included, had the normal strong 3-5 foot pattern. So, it was due to limp wristing.

She also had problems with depressing the slide release. She simply could not press it hard enough to left the slide go, even with both thumbs. I took the gun and 'snap', the slide goes forward. My sister is not very strong.