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 Posted: Mon Jul 6th, 2020 08:33 pm
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mhoward
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Tony, the Walther is a P22... 22LR.  I shot some CCI MiniMag standard velocity lead round nose and some Winchester SuperX HyperVelocity CU plated HP, both 40 grain.  Last time at the range, I got failure to feed, failure to eject and failure to fire (due to the safety somehow getting enabled).  I brought it home and field stripped it and hosed it out with WD-40, then blew it out with the air compressor.  I lubed it with some spray lithium and worked the action a bunch of times.  You mentioned the recoil spring and that brought something to mind. Back some time ago, I bought a captive recoil sprint with stainless steel guide rod.  That may be the issue.  I will try it again with the original non-captive guide rod and recoil spring and see if that fixes the issue.  If ammo was plentiful as it was 9 months ago, I would buy a box of the hottest 22LR I could find and try that, however that isn't the case.  I never used to have issue with the slide locking, so your thoughts on the recoil spring may just be the problem.  Gonna find out!



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