If you manually cycle your R9

[DanR9SF]

If you take your R9 out of your pocket right now, grab the slide, pull it back and let it fly... does one round eject and the next round chamber completely?  Mine doesn't.  Mine ejects perfectly but hangs up and I have to nudge the slide forward to get the next round to completely chamber.

If I were to just take my R9 out of my pocket and pull the trigger - it goes bang and the next round chambers fine.  But manually... it's another story.

Speer Gold Dot 124 grain.  Wondering how your R9 acts?  Thx.

[yankee2500]

I won't be able to try that with my pup for a couple of weeks but I had a springer micro compact that did the same thing, it must be the recoil that keeps it from hanging up during firing.
John

[sslater]

DaninVA,
My R9s generally ejects the chambered round and loads the next round without incident.
But, if I've just installed a new recoil spring, sometimes the first round hangs up a bit.  I attribute that to:
1.) I didn't yank the slide back vigorously enough against the new spring's tension;
2.) My fingers were a little slippery from the lube I applied during reassembly, resulting in 1.)

Generally, I've found that firing a couple of mags thru my gun relaxes the recoil spring enough for a srrong tug on the slide to chamber the next round.  For a while there I got in the habit of "exercising" a new recoil spring 20 or 30 times, but gave that practice up when the second generation springs became available.

Steve

[tracker]

Dan,

I haven't tried that nor do I see any necessity for it. The only
scenario that I can envision that as a practical problem is in
clearing a misfire but even then I would eject the magazine first
if possible.

[Fat Boy]

I have tried that several times with no hang ups at all.  I am using Federal Hydra-Shok 147gr. JHP

[kjtrains]

If you take your R9 out of your pocket right now, grab the slide, pull it back and let it fly... does one round eject and the next round chamber completely?  Mine doesn't.  Mine ejects perfectly but hangs up and I have to nudge the slide forward to get the next round to completely chamber.

If I were to just take my R9 out of my pocket and pull the trigger - it goes bang and the next round chambers fine.  But manually... it's another story.

Speer Gold Dot 124 grain;.  Wondering how your R9 acts?  Thx.

What tracker said.  I, personally, don't see the need in doing this either.  I tend to leave things alone as long as it goes bang the way it supposed to.  Good maintenance, of course.

  

 

[Fat Boy]

God forbid if you had a failure to fire because the round was dead, than of course you would need to do this.  Hope for the best, plan (and prepare) for the worst.  I have had failure to fire in cheap loads, which I would hope no one would carry with BUT I have also had failure to fire in quality rifle loads several times through the years and I know of MANY deer hunters that would claim the same thing.  When they were about the shoot the biggest buck they every saw they ended up with a dead round.  My dad for years carried a round that had been struck in such a situation.  I would hate to think of that happening at the most needed moment but it would be truly best to prepare for the worst in this situation, imho.

[Richard S]

Dan:

My R9 ejects and chambers as it should when manually cycled. Do you recall how many rounds have been fired with your current recoil spring? If it is a significant number of rounds, or if you have cycled the action manually a large number of times, a new spring might restore matters to proper order.

Good luck, and good shooting!

[DanR9SF]

The gun goes bang, it's just that I noticed how it doesn't always chamber the next round when I manually cycle the slide.  I have about 60 rounds on this spring, and maybe 20 manual operations. I can change the spring - it's just that I wondered if it's mine or if it's like this on other R9's.

I just tried it again several times and all 7 ejected and chambered perfectly.  I guess I'm over 100 operations now so it's time for a new spring!

You know it looks as if you need to be really strong and fast, almost violent with the slide operation.  I may have been trying it manually just a little bit too slow.  It really is a short action.

  

[kjtrains]

I would say you should be OK for another 100 rounds.  Rohrbaugh brochure says change at 200 rds.  Strong and quick action on pulling the slide is key.

[robertd]

What KJ said. All the issues I've had are attributable to my weak hands and a gun so small. I've found out that "Winchester Personal Protection" 115 HPs cycle the slide much better than I do.

[kjtrains]

Robert.  Bought a box of these last week.  Probably paid too much, $29.95 for a box of 50; another backup of the Winchester Silvertips or maybe for another new 9mm.

[robertd]

I stumbled across these in a little, local store a few weeks ago for a little less than you gave. These are in a white box and should be in the bailywick of a discount store, though I've never seen them in the home State of Wal~Mart. Prior I've shot hardly anything but Speer 115 GD through the R9 at twice the price. Pardon my heresy, but I have more confidence in the "cheap" Winchester. If I were a ballistics expert I'd say the ease of chambering is due to the shallower ogive of the bullet. For some reason they feed easier so that makes my post more in keeping with the OP.

[tracker]

Nobody said there is anything wrong with WWB Personal
Protection ammo. I spotted a couple of boxes of that today
in .357 Sig for about the same price and jumped on it.

That caliber has been a bit scarce lately, also.

[kjtrains]

I did pick up 2 boxes for the Five Seven at $21.00 for a box of 50.  That caliber doesn't seem to have sky rocketed.  Made by FN.