Not no more, it ain't.
Pardini has taken over
No, Frank, that isn't what I meant.
Legendary good maker,
should not be happening, etc does not help.
It IS "happening"
What I meant was that no matter how good the reputation, no matter how good the one you have USED TO BE. the fact that it has come up with an unpredictable
fault means that "something" is no longer as good as it HAD BEEN on THIS PARTICULAR ONE.
I'm serious about "capturing" and comparing fired brass.
Put grip-plate bag mount for a capture bag on it and go where you can fire until you have the fault you are looking for "happen" or have a large enough sample to sit and compare
.. striker pattern
.. and any other marks on the brass ....under magnification
... AS IN mayhap find evidence of damage in
feeding every now and then.
"etc"
Too many different ammo samples have been tried to blame the food.
The problem is in the eating of it.
And you may find the evidence has been there, all along, laid out on the ground of the range.
That won't fix a problem.
It might show you where to look for the "real"
cause of the problem.
Kept 48,000 rounds of 7.62 NATO already in magazines for my unit at Long Binh.
Loaded
18 rounds to each
20-round magazine.
Because of what we had all learned about M-14
magazines.
Not the battle rifle itself.
Sometimes it is not that complicated after all.
Dumb s**t bites mankind in the ass far more often than brilliance.