Ugly Stovepipe

[Waveski]

Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

Not exactly clear why you couldn't hold the toggle all the way to the rear with your left hand and then release the magazine to clear part of the problem. But regardless, I'm wondering about the condition of your magazine to let everything go wrong at the same time. OEM magazine or Mec-Gar?
dju

Mr Uden -

To clarify , the pistol managed to chamber a round during the course of the failed ejection. Upon clearing the stove pipe I found that the next round had been stripped about halfway from the magazine ; as the bullet of that round encountered the feed ramp it lodged underneath the chambered round. Therefor , the magazine could not drop because it was still holding the aft end of round 2 , and round two was rather securely held in place by the magazine in the aft end , and the chambered round in the forward end.

Mag would not drop , round two firmly lodged in place. The result was a sticky wicket , as the Brits might say.

As to the magazine involved , I was rotating between an old magazine which came with the 1916 , and a new MecGar. To be honest , in the heat of the moment , dealing with an uncomfortable situation with which I had no previous experience , I lost track of which mag was which.

I will test shoot both magazines again today and report back.