Very odd/concerning experience the other day, shooting my Shadow 2 9mm and felt something like a misfire/squib. Slide was also jammed/stuck slightly out of battery. I assumed I had a low charge/no charge (I reload), so cleared it and bumped the stuck case out with a cleaning rod. The case was split, which seemed odd since it had been stuck in the chamber. I checked the gun, and reloaded. Same result - jammed slide and split case stuck in the chamber. Same process, cleared the weapon and checked it. Figuring it was unlikely I could have two low/no charges in a row, I started wondering what the issue might be. I decided to load factory rounds (Blazer 115g) to remove the reload/old case variable, same result - split case stuck in chamber, jammed slide. The barrel was clear each time, none were squibs, but felt like them when they fired. So three rounds fired from two different ammo sources (one factory new), same result each time.
I had recently cleaned the weapon pretty thoroughly, so don't think crud's a factor. idk if I did something really dumb reassembling it, but don't think so. I replaced springs and barrel over 1000 rounds ago and it's worked flawlessly since then, so nothing has changed as far as I know...but I went from flawless to almost 100% failure, jammed & split cases, so clearly something changed. Any thoughts?
