Fifty rounds each of 115gr Wolf Polyformance and Prvi Partizan 124gr FMJ from Lucky Gunner went to the range on Wednesday morning. I had figured that the Wolf would be more or less interchangeable with the TulAmmo that had functioned the gun reliably the other day. I was wrong; the Wolf was a horror show.
There were multiple failures to extract/eject. Similar to the malfs that popped up with the underpowered Blazer Brass, it was hard to tell if the claw just popped off the rim when the case head encountered the case mouth of the next round up in the magazine or what.
Supposedly there's a newer extractor from Steyr? I should call them.
I mentioned about striker-fired guns and hard Russian primers. The Glock 19 had one failure-to-fire out of 400 rounds of TulAmmo and Brown Bear. The Sig Sauer P320 had three over more than five hundred rounds of random East Bloc steel-cased stuff. The Steyr had one in one hundred rounds of TulAmmo... and a whopping three in only forty rounds of Wolf yesterday.
The Wolf's ejection pattern was erratic, with some spent cases being flung over my right shoulder and others barely dribbling over the left side of the ejection port. Rather than just letting the dumpster fire burn, I cut it short at forty rounds, saving the last ten to shoot over the chrono.
I popped open the box of 124gr PPU, and all fifty rounds went off without a hitch. This gun sure is a fussy eater.
This makes 620 rounds fired through the Steyr C9-A1 without cleaning or
lubing, with five failures-to-fire (#
8, #
472, #535, #555, #558), seven failures to extract (#
234, #
266, #
276, #531, #535, #543, #558), and one failure to go completely into battery (#
116). 1,380 rounds left to go.
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