Originally Posted by
Glenn E. Meyer
A second run with the gun. As seen above the first run was full of jams. I didn't modify the gun or polished anything, I did read this thread and do some more research. What I found was:
1. Didn't jam with 9 rounds in the mag
2. With 10, if one made sure that the first round was above and not into that lip on the top of the magazines, didn't jam
3. Never jammed during firing a mag.
Other things, I wonder why 22 pistol mags work by those tabs on the side and not just loading like other mags. Not my lane and curious. If you pull them to far down, the rounds go in at bad angles.
The ammo was Herter's - Cabelas, BP brand - Geez - it was really smokey.
Minor annoyances - on the first mag, something hit my trigger finger and cut it. What? Time out to control bleeding. The empties were bouncing off the lane sides.
The range was one outside of Batavia, NY - the Firing Pin. NIce place, very busy. The local Erie county ranges are usually part of an expensive club (unless you shoot a match). There were two drop in ranges in Erie County. One closed and the other is screwing around with Covid and remodeling. If the area could support it, one of the modern ranges like we see in TX would take these guys out, not that I would want to hurt someone's business.
The store part had lots 223, 7.62x39,51 and hunting shotgun rounds. NO handgun ammo.
So I think the gun will work, the mag is the problem as the first round of 10 interacts with that lip unless you fiddle with it.