Posted: 2/8/2014 9:21:28 AM EDT
| I hope someone can help me. I love my 92fs I am always defending it against the glock fanboys but yesterday on the range it had a few problems. I was using a new 30rd mag loaded with frangible rounds and then brown bear at the bottom. The frangible rounds did not want to feed properly. To my dismay when the frangible rounds were done the gun performed flawlessly with the brown bear. It did this with the 30rd and 15rd factory mags. I don't know if there is something wrong with the gun or maybe the frangible rounds are not powerful enough to cycle the 18 or 20lbs Wolff recoil spring. Has anyone had this happen to their 92fs? |
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It don't know about the "powerful enough" stuff. But it stands to reason and common sense. That if your gun works with a bunch of different ammo and not one particular kind. It's the crappy ammo. Frangible ammo can cause reliability issues in semi autos. I don't know what brand of frangible ammo you used. But perhaps your 92 didn't like the shape or the ammo was "too soft".
But also considering the factory recoil spring weight is 13 pounds. That could have been the issue. Put the factory recoil spring in and try it with the frang ammo. But if you can run every other kind of ammo with your Wolf springs. It's again, the ammo. Why are you running heavier springs anyways? |
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I was curious, so... Why are you using frangible ammunition? There was a large amount given to me by a friend so I figured I would try it out. I am asking if it was the ammo because the frangible rounds would fire in the gun but it would not cycle it to the next round reliably. It was hit and miss. |
| I haven't fired more than a few rounds out of my Beretta 30 round mag, but have read they have issues. I was assuming that's why despite being new, the 30 rounders are selling much cheaper than Beretta 20 round mags everywhere, including the Beretta website. That said, this sounds like an ammo issue. |
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There was a large amount given to me by a friend so I figured I would try it out. I am asking if it was the ammo because the frangible rounds would fire in the gun but it would not cycle it to the next round reliably. It was hit and miss. Quoted:
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I was curious, so... Why are you using frangible ammunition? There was a large amount given to me by a friend so I figured I would try it out. I am asking if it was the ammo because the frangible rounds would fire in the gun but it would not cycle it to the next round reliably. It was hit and miss. The frangible I have seen (.40 S&W) used a pretty light projectile... and was low recoil. |
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My friend, you answered your own question. Running a spring that stiff is begging for malfunctions. Quoted:
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or maybe the frangible rounds are not powerful enough to cycle the 18 or 20lbs Wolff recoil spring. My friend, you answered your own question. Running a spring that stiff is begging for malfunctions. I have never had any malfunctions with the heavy recoil spring until I used the frangible rounds. |
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I have never had any malfunctions with the heavy recoil spring until I used the frangible rounds. Don't take this as me telling you how to set up your gun, because that's not my intention. I'm just tossing in my $0.02. That being said, if it were my gun I'd be running a recoil spring much closer to stock. The factory rating is 13lb. I'd shoot for somewhere in the 15lb range if you are dead set on tinkering with it. With that weight of spring in there, I would highly doubt that it would fail to cycle your frangible ammunition. Understand that your choice of spring weight is likely the single reason that your gun will not cycle that ammunition. 
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