Tornado

I recently started cleaning my brass with the stainless pin method and started having this same problem. I would get brass galling from the inside of the case to the powder funnel after 30-40 rounds. It would end up taking a lot of effort to pull the case off the funnel. At first I would just polish the brass off with a Dremmel , this did not last long as I was not interested doing this every 50 rounds. I found a post somewhere on the internet where a Dillon rep mentioned that this is common on new cases and that there was no real fix. According to Dillon the slight amount of carbon left on a fired case from normal case cleaning methods acts as a lubricant for the powder funnel. What has worked for me is to take my vibrating tumbler with some corn cob media and add a cap full of liquid car wax to it; I tumble the cleaned cases for about 10-15 minutes and then load them up. I have not cleaned the powder funnel for several thousand rounds now. As a side benefit the cases go through the sizing die very smoothly almost as good as if they have case lube on them. Every so often I add a little more wax to the cob media, but I have not needed to change the cob media yet since the brass is all ready clean and it has so little run time on it. You mention you are using twice fired brass. If you do not get every last bit of brass off the powder funnel it will start to build up again in a very short time, using wet sand paper like mentioned should do the trick.

I have a gen 4 34 that sounds like it behaves very similar. My brass seems to barely make it out of the gun and will land within 6-8 inches of my right foot. I have not had any failures to eject but a shooting buddy brought it up after watching me shoot. I am very interested to hear of your results if you are able to improve the ejection. I have been on the fence whether or not this is a problem or just the way it is. I like to be proactive and fix things before they cause problems but also don’t want to try and fruitlessly fix something that is not broke.

I just had this same problem. I recently added a lightened striker and striker spring to my 34 which already had a heavy trigger spring. I did not notice any problems at the time but after a detail cleaning I noticed that the trigger would not reset if partially depressed. I was originally thinking that the combination of springs was the problem. I did not even need to do a search on the topic as this thread was on the top of the first page when I started to look. Postal Bob was right on the money, when I looked at the trigger spring it was not on the trigger bar properly and was rubbing on the housing. Thirty seconds later with the help of a small pick the spring was back on the trigger bar properly and the trigger was resetting as normal. Without Postal Bob’s post I would have likely just disassembled the gun and never found the cause, I will make sure to check the trigger spring more carefully after reassembly now.