JayDee Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 On the first stage of the match last weekend I had a FTfire right after the beep. Cleared it and kept going. it took a little while to figure out what happened but I finally did. Background: I have two .40 1911s set up almost identically. Have shot them interchangeably for many years. But……I recently tested some new loads. Due to component shortages I loaded some 40 rounds with CCI sm rifle primers. At my practice session, I tested 30 of these with one gun but not the other. At the match, I accidentally grabbed one of the srp rounds to Barney up on the first stage. Turns out that my other 1911 does not have a hammer spring strong enough to reliably light off CCI srp’s. a quick session last week confirms that one gun fires them (so far) 100% and the other only fired about 50%. lesson learned: test EVERYTHING before a match and no two guns are Exactly the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stage 3 Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 What spring did you have installed, how old was it and what weight did you go to to correct the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 I thought both my guns had 17# mainsprings installed. Could be that one was worn due to age: one is about 7 years old, the other is 5, although I haven’t shot much SS in about 5 years so the round count is relatively low (12k and 8k, respectively) will replace mainsprings at end of summer. In the meantime I know not to load more SRPs. Thankfully I found a stack of SPPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGC Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Christmas time...enjoy the day...then change all springs on the 26th..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SufferInSilence Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Good advice. I’ve had similar situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjrobbins24 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 At least you didn’t completely forget your stage plan and just wing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 29 minutes ago, Kjrobbins24 said: At least you didn’t completely forget your stage plan and just wing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X5SigChris Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Kjrobbins24 said: At least you didn’t completely forget your stage plan and just wing it! Must you attack me like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjrobbins24 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 On 12/23/2022 at 4:41 PM, X5SigChris said: Must you attack me like this no attack sir, simply re-living my own nightmares!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eboos Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 During a classifer yesterday (among other problems) I had a round go "pthish" and no recoil. I dropped the mag and cleared the chamber. Unexpectedly, a full round ejected. Turns out the primer was seated sort of sideways, but was barely noticeable. I remember when I was loading these rounds that one primer sort of crunched its way in and I was surprised it didn't detonate. Visual inspection of that session's loads looked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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