1911Prof Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Greetings, newb question, but what do you do about spent brass sticking to the extractor during a reload? It is somewhat frustrating when in a match you are trying to reload into a cylinder and the brass is still stuck to the extractor and you need to punch the ejector rod a couple of times to get it to fall off. It of course never happens in dryfire because dummy rounds are not expanded by being fired. Is it the brass/moon combination I am using or is something else I should address. To clarify, it is not stuck in the cylinder, the spent brass is out of the cylinder and clinging to the extractor Edited March 10, 2019 by 1911Prof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWP Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 First of all, what cartridge are you using? Moon clips or individual rounds? Second, is the gun not tipping up enough to get the cases to fall away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1911Prof Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 It is a 929 with .040 tkcustom moons. The gun is as vertical as you dare get it and since it never happens with unfired brass (dry fire) and only infrequently with spent brass, I doubt it is the angle of the gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Roll size/case pro/ lee bulge bust your brass I’ve heard starline can be sticky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Man that's weird, never had that happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcfoto Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Over pressure? Isn’t sticky extraction a symptom of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I’m also using a lee undersized die and never had issues. Did have a fellow shooter at a match have his moonclip jammed. He had to keep the gun facing down range, knelt down and wacked the extractor against the fault line and it popped out. Claims he got lazy and didn’t bulge bust this batch of ammo. I went from a bulge buster to a roll sizer. 2nd IPSC match ever I had a very embarrassing jam on my sti that took 30 seconds to extract. So I made sure it never happened again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pskys2 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Might check for burrs on the extractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchapman Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I have seen cases where they did not stroke the ejector far enough for the spent brass to clear and fall out, then it was released and the brass was slightly cocked and the under side of the ejector bit into the brass, binding it and then watching them hit the ejector several more times to get it to clear. To solve that problem if that is what it is, stroke the ejector ALL the way so that the brass clears the cylinder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcc7x7 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 26 minutes ago, mchapman said: , stroke the ejector ALL the way so that the brass clears the cylinder. this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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1911Prof Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 I’m wondering if I’m punching it before it is totally open and it’s hitting the grip and making it cocked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 There's something wrong with the extractor, Prof. I would run a chamber reamer in all the holes. No way should that hang on like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pskys2 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Try it without the grips. Running at speed with some grips I have a bad habit of flipping the gun too quick and actually rotating the moon clip right back in. I usually dremel out that relief cut to the minimum to help the moon clips to fall free. So if you don't have the problem without the grips, it's the grips. If the problem is still there, it's the extractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 12 hours ago, pskys2 said: Try it without the grips. Running at speed with some grips I have a bad habit of flipping the gun too quick and actually rotating the moon clip right back in. I usually dremel out that relief cut to the minimum to help the moon clips to fall free. So if you don't have the problem without the grips, it's the grips. If the problem is still there, it's the extractor. I'm running the same grips. Brass/moons don't come anywhere close. It's possible you're canting the gun (or not canting it enough), but my best guess would be a burr or a sharp edge getting caught. Did you chamfer your chambers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1911Prof Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Well the grips are definitely not the issue, I am beginning to believe a combination of really tight tolerances on the extractor and the bulge on some brass. I actually had to pull the spent brass/moon off the extractor. I am going to try a bulge buster and see if it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyScuba Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 What brass are u running? I have put a 650 on a used Mark 7and am in the process of working through a massive pile of 9mm that I deprime and size (then clean and roll-size). I keep one headstamp and sell the rest. today I had 3 starline that tripped the clutch as the lee u die started shaving the cases 2/3’s the way down. ALL starline. I ran each piece alone through the roll-sizer and resized. I did read some of the older posts here when we got our new 929’s that guys had issues with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1911Prof Posted March 13, 2019 Author Share Posted March 13, 2019 IT seems to really only be a problem with the stainless TKCustom .040 moons, the TKCustom .035 blue moons don't seem to have the same problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 I would use the .035 ones then. They probably only get stuck once in a blue moon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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