Stoeger Luger 22 ??

[ithacaartist]

The new mags touted at places like mag clip depot to be OEM often are NOT, for the Luger wannabe .22s. Triple K (not racist) is one maker whose work is kinda chintzy, departing almost entirely from the shape of the OEM mags' lips--This is true of the Ermas, and may well be the case for Stoeger Luger .22s. Exactly what is going on mechanically will be difficult to describe to us, but I can give you some general info. on a few things to look for prior to taking any action.

One way mag lips can be out of whack is by being either too far apart or too close together. If they are too far apart, the geometry of this situation dictates that the top round would ride too high in its resting position. The symptoms of this would include failure to fully cycle. Potentially, if the action doesn't make it to the end of its task and sort of runs out of enough steam to avoid consistent cocQing, fully and cleanly ejecting, picking up the next round and feed it correctly, or secure return to battery. The breech block's bottom may leave telltale scrapes on the next round below in the mag.

Check just how the breech block approaches the top shell when it's cycled slowly by hand, to see how things line up, and if the round is pushed straight towards the breech, or takes off at an angle, left or right. If the front of the lips allows the round to follow a path that is effectively slanted left or right of the desired direction of travel, they would nee to be trued to adjust for straight travel--and parallel.

This would be a good time to see if the round's nose pops up prematurely as it travels to battery, in such a way as to allow the nose to catch on the top edge of the chamber. If this is happening, the front of the lips are too far apart because they should have a gap that is as tight to the sides of the round as possible as it passes without binding--so that the round just whiffs past them. This will calm the motion of the round and help it stay settled down for the feed ramp to take over and guide the bottom side of the round's nose into the chamber. Any closer, and the resistance that results will slow down the action, causing problems again as energy needed to return the action to battery with the new round will be bled off by the need to squeeze the round out from between lips that are too tight for slick passage.

If the feed lips are too close together,t the top round will ride too low in the lips to be picked up consistently by the breech block as it returns to battery., an almost insignificant adjustment can sometimes turn the tide in favor of reliable function; just got to find out what that adjustment is!