mainspring tension

Alx · 04-09-2007, 11:12 PM

M. Sieger,
could you discuss a bit about the different kinds of feeding jams that occur with weak/excessively strong springs, both recoil and mag springs ?
Specifically, for instance, the jam I am seeing in two of my shooter Lugers is not a classic stove-pipe, but the bullet nose ( always using jacketed round nose standard ball ammo ) is stuck against the breech face, that sharp place below the extractor notch at 12 o'clock above the chamber, digging into the bullet nose, the bolt partially closed and against the mis-fed bullet's rear, and the bullet stuck partially sideways, maybe at an angle of degrees to the right, and of course tilted upward against the top of the breech face. The jam won't clear by racking the toggle, the next round in the clip maintaining pressure, but after dropping the clip, the toggle pulled back allows the jammed bullet to fall thru the mag well and out of the gun.

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04-09-2007, 11:12 PM	#8
Alx User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Nashville, Tennessee area Posts: 263 Thanks: 5 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	M. Sieger, could you discuss a bit about the different kinds of feeding jams that occur with weak/excessively strong springs, both recoil and mag springs ? Specifically, for instance, the jam I am seeing in two of my shooter Lugers is not a classic stove-pipe, but the bullet nose ( always using jacketed round nose standard ball ammo ) is stuck against the breech face, that sharp place below the extractor notch at 12 o'clock above the chamber, digging into the bullet nose, the bolt partially closed and against the mis-fed bullet's rear, and the bullet stuck partially sideways, maybe at an angle of degrees to the right, and of course tilted upward against the top of the breech face. The jam won't clear by racking the toggle, the next round in the clip maintaining pressure, but after dropping the clip, the toggle pulled back allows the jammed bullet to fall thru the mag well and out of the gun.