Mitchell Luger

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I shot my new(to me) Mitchell luger for the first time today and it started having issues on the third shot. I was not able to shoot more than four shots without a jam. I was shooting S&B 115&124gr, and Wal-Mart Winchester. The most frequent jam was a failure to extract the case from the chamber. The action would then attempt to feed the next round into a camber that was still occupied by the previous shell case. The next most frequent type of jam was the spent case staying attached to the breech block without ejecting and blocking the next round from feeding. This second failure mode started to happen after about forty rounds and after a couple of these I noticed that the action felt like it was full of crud so I stopped shooting at about 50 rounds. When I took the gun apart after 50 rounds it was filthy inside so I hope the second failure mode was attributed to dirt.

I gave the gun a good scrub and will try again. After cleaning the breech block I noticed that the bottom face appears to be pushed up slightly as if it struck a miss-fed case. I am not sure if this is normal, but I doubt it.

I could not get the extractor out because I donâ??t have a small enough punch to remove the pin. I will make a smaller punch later this week, and will remove the extractor to clean under it.

I have attached some photos of the breech block, and of the jams. The jams were taken with my camera phone and are not good quality.

Any help is greatly appreciated.






Jam mode # 1




Jam mode # 2