Accuracy and Ammo

[Mestral]

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that many fail to fires sounds more like a primer problem than anything else to me. it's happened to me a couple of times........mac

Naw, it was a "paying attention to what was actually said" problem.
I didn't read carefully.
He didn't say they didn't fire.
He said they didn't eject.
The loads didn't have enough powder to properly eject.

[Night Owl]

The biggest problem with accuracy is the user of the weapon.

[Mestral]

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The biggest problem with accuracy is the user of the weapon.

That is the case with me, at least nowadays it is.

When I was in the AF, I shot expert, almost every time I went to an AF range.
When I went to an Army range, I got a wake up call.

It was one of those with the automatic pop up targets, rather than the paper targets I was used to, and I found that, while I didn't have much trouble hitting a target, I was too slow at acquiring the next target. I lost a lot of points because the target would drop before I could get the shot.

These days, my eyes are not so good, and my hands shake a bit. I joke about "hitting the broad side of a barn from the inside," but the reality is I am just good enough to pass the proficiency test for Texas CCW. Not sure about rifle, as my right eye is damaged. I need to get a mount so I can put a red dot scope where I can use my left eye to aim.

[Ludwig]

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... Not sure about rifle, as my right eye is damaged. I need to get a mount so I can put a red dot scope where I can use my left eye to aim.

My right eye is shot also. I have trained myself to be a left-handed shooter. That was easier for me since I was born left handed and was so until the sainted nuns retrained me so I would not be a worker for the evil one. Now I'm right handed but the hemispheres in my brain are still transposed and that has led to some real problems at times.

[mac]

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Naw, it was a "paying attention to what was actually said" problem.
I didn't read carefully.
He didn't say they didn't fire.
He said they didn't eject.
The loads didn't have enough powder to properly eject.

i think you mean "extract" and not "eject"....but what the hay.....mac

[kantwin]

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i think you mean "extract" and not "eject"....but what the hay.....mac

I think you think wrong.
I was the one that posted the original statement in post #8

some range reload 9mm that every 5th round or so won't fully eject due to low load of powder.

The spent casing is extracted from the chamber.
The spent casing is not fully ejected from the weapon.
The slide moves forward and is stopped by the partially ejected casing.

[Mestral]

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I think you think wrong.
I was the one that posted the original statement in post #8

The spent casing is extracted from the chamber.
The spent casing is not fully ejected from the weapon.
The slide moves forward and is stopped by the partially ejected casing.

Some pistols will stop with the empty casing sticking out of the ejection port, an effect a lot of hand gunners call a "stove pipe"

A bit of twisted humor, M230 (replaced the M-60) crews call something different "stovepipe."
The M230 has a bad habit of the extractor tearing the backplate off the expended round, and feeding the next round into the chamber, ramming it into the remains of the spent cartridge. Once you are able to extract it, the two shell combo looks like a joint in a stovepipe.

[mac]

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I think you think wrong.
I was the one that posted the original statement in post #8

The spent casing is extracted from the chamber.
The spent casing is not fully ejected from the weapon.
The slide moves forward and is stopped by the partially ejected casing.

sorry, but powder and recoil have absolutely nothing what so ever to do with ejection. Hells bells, you can even eject manually with no powder or recoil....a bolt action ejects, a single shot ejects, a lever action ejects....mac

[kantwin]

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sorry, but powder and recoil have absolutely nothing what so ever to do with ejection. Hells bells, you can even eject manually with no powder or recoil....a bolt action ejects, a single shot ejects, a lever action ejects....mac

If powder and recoil have absolutely nothing to do with ejection, I'd be interested in hearing your theory on how a semi-automatic pistol performs the complete firing cycle, then.

[Grasshopperglock]

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If powder and recoil have absolutely nothing to do with ejection, I'd be interested in hearing your theory on how a semi-automatic pistol performs the complete firing cycle, then.

He's doing word play between ejection(the process of removing the spent case from the action). And extraction (removing the spent case out of battery; extraction from the chamber)