Bersa Thunder .380 jamming (PART2)
Thanks everyone. It is clean,lubed and assymbled correctly. I'm thinking you could be correct with spring or mags. I will cycle it by hand and see what happens. I'm shooting FMJ, no lead and no Wolf.
I think I'm going out today, will get a picture. I went to visit a friend yesterday and lo and behold he had just bought a brand new one, so I'm motivated again!
Benjie
I think I'm going out today, will get a picture. I went to visit a friend yesterday and lo and behold he had just bought a brand new one, so I'm motivated again!
Benjie
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Try your friends magazine in your gun see if that fixes it. Then exchange the recoil spring see if that fixes it. Finally the barrel. Try your parts in his gun to see which on causes the problem...more likely than not it is one of the three...could also by your extractor and/or ejector. But you will know when you complete these tests. The way you will know is as you exchange parts...yours will continue to malfunction and his will work fine. 0 -
Sorry I'm so long getting back to you. Took the gun out but forgot the camera and the friend could not go. Had same problem! Took it to Gander Mtn. and the gunsmith tweaked on the ejector, polished the upper part of the chamber and fired a few rounds. Said it was O.K.!
I'm out of ammo, so we'll see.0 -
Never had any issues with either of mine, but have noticed a build up around the ramp and chamber after running quite a few rounds through it. Clean it up good and polish the ramp, should be good to go from there. 0 -
I've heard that sometimes the opening in the magazine can be too wide causing these types of jams.
I have the CC model and it's absolutely flawless except for when I shot the Winchester white box flat nose ammo.
The only other problem I had was when I ran two boxes of Wolf steel cased ammo through it.
I expected the problem and just kept going until there were no jams with that ammunition.
I haven't tried any WWB since that first day at the range so the verdict is still out on that stuff for me.
It shoots everything else really well with another exception...
When I mixed a magazine with Buffalo Bore and Hornady Critical Defense I would get jams. It only happened when I shot the BB followed by a HCD for some reason.
The BB are very hot so that might have been the problem.
No problems at all when I fire either exclusively.0 -
For what its worth, the small PPK-like autos are mostly designed to run ball ammo.
Many will choke on hollowpoint or flatpoint bullets either some of the time, or all the time.
If that's disappointing, consider that many authorities believe that the low intrinsic penetration of the .380 round means that ball ammo works best anyway.
If you can cycle the rounds through the gun manually (WITH THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION!!) that would eliminate this particular issue as the problem.0 -
nelsomel,
You have to describe what kind of jams you are getting. Without at least knowing that it's tough to help you.
FWIW, the Bersa Thunder (I don't know about other PPK knock-offs) has a magazine safety. That unless the magazine is in it won't fire. Sometimes, when you may have used too heavy of ammunition, a spring in the right side of the gun will come out of it's groove. I had this happen to me. Because I loaded slow powder in one batch of reloads. With this spring out of it's groove the gun seems to want to function. But not very well. You have to break the gun down by taking the slide off and the right grip (small tipped slotted screw driver). The spring part is about 1"-1 1/4" long. It's part of the magazine safety-trigger assembly. It rides along the length of the frame, not down the grip. Give that a try. One problem with this is it's makes the gun jam but doesn't keep it from firing. IMO, it's not a great design. But, functional as long as you don't use slow heavy powders.
Edit: part of the jaming problem was the spring was hitting the slide. It gave it a rough feel when cycling by hand.
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