New SR40c having ejecting issues...

[Nkostel19]

Hey all,
Just picked up the new SR40c and just got a chance to shoot it this last weekend. Before I purchased the gun, I did some research and was pleased with what everyone was saying. I agree for the most part. It is a solid design and fits nice. Most everyone who does reviews on it say it eats all kinds of ammo with no hiccups. My first experience was a little different unfortunately. I just ran probibly 75 rounds of Winchester 165 target (white box) ammo and had about 1 out of 10 fail to eject. The shell wold get hung up in the chamber and had to fight them out with my knife. The extractor seemed to have good pressure so I'm thinking it may be the ammo. I looked at a few of the jammed shells closely, and to the naked I they seemed more oval shaped than round. I figure that's what's causing them to bind up. I am hoping this weekend to take it out with a few different brands of ammo and see what happens.

Wondering if anyone else has had this issue or if it may be part of the break in process rather than a bad box of ammo.

 

[Rei40c]

I'm puzzled by the oval shape of the brass. WWB is by no means top of the line ammo, but no one is that bad. I wondered if the timings off and the slide was slamming back into the empty brass as it closed and the brass was flying out leading to deformation and the oval shape. But you say in the malfunction the empty brass never leaves the chamber? And is seated as if its in battery?

If the latter is the case and your prying spent casings out of the chamber itself somethings very wrong. I've fired 100's of rounds of WWB in 180 grain and never saw this, or in any ammo for that matter. What I'd do is buy another box of 50 WWB and see if its still happening. There's no reason this should happen because its WWB alone, and break in doesn't really cover the malfunction you described if I understand you correctly. If it continues I'd get it back to Ruger asap. Sorry probably not the news you wanted to hear.

 

[Rei40c]

Another possibility I thought of is if somehow the chamber is out of dimension (for instance not perfectly circular lets say flatter on the top and bottom making an oval shape) the brass at the moment of discharge could be expanding under the pressure and filling any gaps in the chamber causing deformed brass to lodge inside. This is almost unthinkable but I suppose anything could happen. In this case a new barrel may fix it.

 

[Nkostel19]

Hey thanks for the reply. Yea I know for sure the slide does not pinch the brass. They get stuck in the chamber. I guess I don't know. It's pretty frustrating.

 

[Nkostel19]

Thanks coach.