We were shooting this weekend (in the sweltering heat).
It was great.
A friend of mine was shooting his P226 and it just locked up.
It is about 1/10" from going in to battery and it will move about an 1/8" but nothing more that that.
Since it is not in battery, you can see that there is a casing still in the chamber.
We did not know if it was a loaded round or an empty at first.
But, we dropped an ink pen down the barrel to measure and it is definitely a spent casing.
That was a relief.
We tried forcing it as much as we felt comfortable but it is REALLY tight.
We put it in the freezer and froze it overnight with hopes that upon warming back up it would break free.
Nope.
Any ideas as to why this would happen and what to do about it?
Oh yeah and is there a good gunsmith in the Bedford area?
It was great.
A friend of mine was shooting his P226 and it just locked up.
It is about 1/10" from going in to battery and it will move about an 1/8" but nothing more that that.
Since it is not in battery, you can see that there is a casing still in the chamber.
We did not know if it was a loaded round or an empty at first.
But, we dropped an ink pen down the barrel to measure and it is definitely a spent casing.
That was a relief.
We tried forcing it as much as we felt comfortable but it is REALLY tight.
We put it in the freezer and froze it overnight with hopes that upon warming back up it would break free.
Nope.
Any ideas as to why this would happen and what to do about it?
Oh yeah and is there a good gunsmith in the Bedford area?