What is causing this feeding problem?

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AL45

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My wife has a new SIG P238. The ammo we are using is Winchester, 95 grain, FMJ, RNFP. The first 20 rounds fed fine. On the last 30 rounds, the gun is having a hard time chambering the first round on a full magazine. After we get the first round chambered, it fires all the rest of the rounds fine. What's the problem?
 
I may have figured the problem out. It takes a little bit of effort to make sure the magazine "clicks" into place. I bought some Remington FMJ RN, and made sure I heard the "click" and they fed perfect every time when I hit the slide release. This gun came with the extended magazine which may be why it's a little more difficult. Thanks Marine, if I have any more problems, I will try your solution.
 
When in doubt, use the wack and tug method of assuring mags are seated.
Wack them good on the bottom and then tug on them to make sure they're fully seated.
Not exactly the hot technique for the fast and furious style of shooting, but if it works for rifles, it can help figure out a problem for pistols, too.
 
My wife carries the P238, too, and we have observed the same thing about seating mags. We have two mags, and one takes a sharper insert motion than the other. My wife makes a point of seating the harder-to-seat mag firmly for carry, so that the easier seating mag is her spare mag.
 
When in doubt, use the wack and tug method
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All jokes aside, I'm curious if her P238 has the rubber grips and or is using the extended mags with the black rubber/plastic baseplate. The rubber grips make the gun much more comfortable to shoot, but in courses at the SIG Academy I watched a man have multiple issues where the grips extended just slightly passed the mag well and on the extended magazines with the rubber/plastic baseplate there was enough resistance to stop the magazines from seating fully unless you really slammed it home.
 
Tunnelrat, yes it is the extended magazine with the rubber baseplate. After a little research, I read how another fellow had the same problem and he found that if you push on the bottom center, which is the actual metal bottom of the magazine, it locks fairly easily. I tried it and it worked. Thanks guys.
 
My wife and I each have a P238. They both do what the OP describes on occasion when chambering the first round off a full mag. A slight nudge on the back of the slide brings the round and slide fully into battery. It seems that flat point ammo is the cause for some reason. Round nose bullets do not seem to have that problem when chambering.

Both of ours are great guns and quite accurate for their small size and run flawlessly.
 
Nail Shooter said:
My wife and I each have a P238. They both do what the OP describes on occasion when chambering the first round off a full mag. A slight nudge on the back of the slide brings the round and slide fully into battery. It seems that flat point ammo is the cause for some reason. Round nose bullets do not seem to have that problem when chambering.

Both of ours are great guns and quite accurate for their small size and run flawlessly.
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mag spring stiffness, feed ramp is the cause of the blunt nose bullets having an issue. load the mag minus one tound, chamber it, then remove the mag and add your additional round, you should be good to go. same reason you should only load 27 rounds on a 30 round AR mag. too much tension
 
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