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- From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Military style .38 ammo misfires
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.184859.27904@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:05:44 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- kennejs@a.cs.okstate.edu (KENNEDY JAMES SCOT) writes:
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- #My only problem has been several misfires with PMC "made to military
- #specs" (says the camo colored box) 132 gr. FMJ ammo. All other
- #commercial (federal, umc) ammo functions reliably. I have seen
- #something like this before-- A friend has some spanish .38 military
- #ammo that misfires in both of his revolvers (both S&W).
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- I've had a similar problem with my S&W 686; commercial ammo fires
- just fine no matter if you use SA or DA, while cheap ($35/250)
- spanish surplus ammo won't always fire reliably. Firing SA helps
- a lot for me; you may want to try it as well. (On most revolvers,
- the hammer goes back farther when you shoot SA, so it will strike
- the primer harder when you fire the gun -- thanks to Chris Bennet
- for this insight :-)
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- #I have read that military ammo uses extra hard primers. Could this
- #be the reason for the misfires, or is this just a coincidence?
- This sounds perfectly reasonable to me; I would imagine that
- military ammo gets handled far more roughly than civilian ammo.
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