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napg19 · August 23, 2011, 07:09 PM

Hope I'm in the right section with this question. Bear with me guys I'm trying to explain this as simple as I can. On the American made auto's I've owned when I want to test a new mag I would load it up and put in gun and rack slide till mag was empty. I tried this with my Makarov with a used mag I bought and first bullet would go in chamber ready to fire as normal. I rack slide and bullet comes out but next round will not feed. clear the gun and try again and bullet not only would not feed but did a 180 and stuck in gun. I figure a bad mag. I try this with a different mag I used last weekend at the range shooting 200 rounds with this mag and no problems. Same problem. I never tried doing this with the second mag until today. Are Mak's supposed to do this. Sorry this turned into a book to read. Any help is always appreciated. Thanks guys.

August 23, 2011, 07:09 PM	#1
napg19 Senior Member Join Date: December 5, 2009 Location: Arkansas Posts: 431	Makarov will not eject bullets when racking slide. Hope I'm in the right section with this question. Bear with me guys I'm trying to explain this as simple as I can. On the American made auto's I've owned when I want to test a new mag I would load it up and put in gun and rack slide till mag was empty. I tried this with my Makarov with a used mag I bought and first bullet would go in chamber ready to fire as normal. I rack slide and bullet comes out but next round will not feed. clear the gun and try again and bullet not only would not feed but did a 180 and stuck in gun. I figure a bad mag. I try this with a different mag I used last weekend at the range shooting 200 rounds with this mag and no problems. Same problem. I never tried doing this with the second mag until today. Are Mak's supposed to do this. Sorry this turned into a book to read. Any help is always appreciated. Thanks guys.