Hey do the mustang pocketlites have any kind of a break in period? I shot mine for the first time yesterday. I put about 150 rounds in it. 100 ball and 50 of the hornady custom .380.
I had 2 failures shooting the hornady. It looked like a failure to extract that caused a double feed both times. After the first failure I checked extractor tension and it wouldn’t even hold the round by the rim. Gun was also a little dirty after 50 rounds of ball but I didn’t clean it. I tightened up the extractor. Shot some more ball rounds and everything seemed good. That also stopped an occasional empty from hitting me in the face. I put a couple more mags of the hornady through it and I think on the 2nd mag I had my 2nd failure.
Gun was pretty filthy at this point. The ball ammo was PMC and Remington UMC. Also, both failures occurred using a 7 round colt mag I bought. No failures with the 6 round mags that came with it. I was thinking maybe the mag was to blame but that wouldn’t make sense to me.
After cleaning I checked extractor tension with some empty cases since I was out of ammo. The PMC was held firmly as where 2 out of 3 of the hornady cases I picked up. However, one of the hornady casings would slip in and fall out without the extractor really touching it at all.
Today I picked up some SIG performance hollow points as that’s the only defensive ammo I found when I was out and about. I put 32 rounds of that through my gun with 16 of those going through my 7 round magazine. I did a mag dump as fast as I could pull the trigger on one of those as well. No problems feeding or extracting.
I am thinking now that I may have had an ammo problem that was aggravated by a dirty gun. Anyone have any input, opinions, or better yet, any experience to share? Thanks.