Wondering if any of you know what might be wrong or how to get the gun apart.
This particular gun has over 10,000 rounds through it.
I was shooting a 3gun match today, and went to slide lock. Loaded a new mag and tried to send the slide home, but it stopped and wouldn't ride forward. Tap, tried to rack the slide, and it was stuck. No movement. Trying to remember, but the mag was kind of stuck also, but I ended up ripping it out. Noticed empty case still in the gun, held in place by the extractor. Cleaned that out. Now, memory is fuzzy here, but I don't think the slide returned home. Mind you, I'm on the clock so I'm trying to get the gun running and finish the stage, not exactly fixing the gun.....
Upon trying to load a new mag, I can recall having to rip the slide forward, as it wouldn't return itself. Slide came forward, click, gun didn't fire. Tap, rack, click. Dropped the mag again, rack, rack, rack. It is clear, but it doesn't feel right. Stopped the stage at this point.
Went back to safe table to take apart the gun and couldn't do so........because the slide would not pull back far enough to align the takedown groove on the slide with the slide release to push it out. See the picture, as that is as far back as the slide will go. Beating on it won't help, as it really seems like a hard stop.
I shoot with one of the HK team guys, so he looked at it real quick also, and we figured it is a firing pin or maybe the recoil spring busted. We tried to really run the slide, and it wasn't giving at all. Thankfully, he's running a P30L also, so I just borrowed his for the rest of the day.
So I cannot take the gun apart at the moment. Curious if any of you have ideas, as I'm resigned to calling HK CS on Monday.
Shot a pretty good match, other than that........
Update: Note that the failure, IMO, was not due to HK defect or design. It was due to using non-standard extended magazines. You can see details later in the thread.
This particular gun has over 10,000 rounds through it.
I was shooting a 3gun match today, and went to slide lock. Loaded a new mag and tried to send the slide home, but it stopped and wouldn't ride forward. Tap, tried to rack the slide, and it was stuck. No movement. Trying to remember, but the mag was kind of stuck also, but I ended up ripping it out. Noticed empty case still in the gun, held in place by the extractor. Cleaned that out. Now, memory is fuzzy here, but I don't think the slide returned home. Mind you, I'm on the clock so I'm trying to get the gun running and finish the stage, not exactly fixing the gun.....
Upon trying to load a new mag, I can recall having to rip the slide forward, as it wouldn't return itself. Slide came forward, click, gun didn't fire. Tap, rack, click. Dropped the mag again, rack, rack, rack. It is clear, but it doesn't feel right. Stopped the stage at this point.
Went back to safe table to take apart the gun and couldn't do so........because the slide would not pull back far enough to align the takedown groove on the slide with the slide release to push it out. See the picture, as that is as far back as the slide will go. Beating on it won't help, as it really seems like a hard stop.
I shoot with one of the HK team guys, so he looked at it real quick also, and we figured it is a firing pin or maybe the recoil spring busted. We tried to really run the slide, and it wasn't giving at all. Thankfully, he's running a P30L also, so I just borrowed his for the rest of the day.
So I cannot take the gun apart at the moment. Curious if any of you have ideas, as I'm resigned to calling HK CS on Monday.
Shot a pretty good match, other than that........
Update: Note that the failure, IMO, was not due to HK defect or design. It was due to using non-standard extended magazines. You can see details later in the thread.