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ScottRiqui · July 9, 2012, 10:43 PM

When you're handloading for a semi-automatic, how do you go about troubleshooting an intermittent feeding problem? I'm not talking about where one or two rounds from each magazine won't feed; I'm talking about where you have one or two FTFs per 100 rounds.

Obviously, you've got it *mostly* right, or else the other 98 or 99 rounds wouldn't have worked. Do you start tweaking OAL? Or maybe stick to one single headstamp for the next few hundred rounds (assuming you were using mixed brass before)? Or for something this intermittent, are you thinking it's an issue with the magazine, feed ramp, or something else about the gun and not the ammo at all?

July 9, 2012, 10:43 PM	#1
ScottRiqui Senior Member Join Date: January 27, 2010 Location: Norfolk, VA Posts: 2,905	Troubleshooting a very intermittent feeding problem When you're handloading for a semi-automatic, how do you go about troubleshooting an intermittent feeding problem? I'm not talking about where one or two rounds from each magazine won't feed; I'm talking about where you have one or two FTFs per 100 rounds. Obviously, you've got it mostly right, or else the other 98 or 99 rounds wouldn't have worked. Do you start tweaking OAL? Or maybe stick to one single headstamp for the next few hundred rounds (assuming you were using mixed brass before)? Or for something this intermittent, are you thinking it's an issue with the magazine, feed ramp, or something else about the gun and not the ammo at all?