FTE while unloading

[Mitchell, Esq.]

after shooting today I went home and decided to field strip my Smith and Wesson shield to give it a wipe down & a bit of oil.

shooting live ammo, pistol was fine... but when I cycled the round of carry ammo, I get a fte.

I reloaded the pistol and hand cycled the ammo in the magazine through the pistol twice without issue.

I am going to go to the range tomorrow and put live rounds through as a test of things, but Is it odd to have a malfunction while hand cycling but not when shooting live ammo?

[JodyH]

Normal. My Kahr does it pretty much every time I hand cycle it but it's been perfect live fire.

[WDW]

You can't have a FTE while hand cycling live ammo through a gun, which is a terrible idea by the way. If you're not firing it, & it isn't going through its normal cycle of operation, it is incorrect to label what you experienced as the guns fault.

[Mitchell, Esq.]

Thanks.

I was hoping that was the case.

[Slavex]

which FTE? Failure to Extract or Failure to Eject? I'm going to assume the later, in which case, mostly normal. When you go to the range, try shooting it without a mag and tell us how it functions. It is very common for Failures to Eject to happen, and was discussed in a previous post (that I can't find).

[Fartrell Cluggins]

Sounds more like a FTDR to me!

[Mitchell, Esq.]

Sounds more like a FTDR to me!

Hey...I'm used to Pre 2008 Gen 3 9mm Glocks.

I'm not really used to ANY problems...

[JodyH]

Small pistols with small ejection ports and very little slide overtravel don't spit out live rounds very well.
Nature of the mini-beast.