Being a beautiful day I was enticed to the range by my wife and we had at the paper targets and a lonely gong at 25 yds.
She has a new Scyy 9 MM pistol that I cleaned and lubed but was unable to get back into battery so it did not make the trip to the range Monday. It will take a ride to the gunnie for consultations on Tuesday.
I brought my Browning Hi Power 9 MM but I did not remember to bring the magazines. Duh?
I brought my EAA Witness Match Elite all steel 9 MM pistol and we had it at with that as well as a Smith 586 6" bbl and my .44 Bulldog.
At the end of the second magazine the EAA was jammed. The chamber was clear but the slide would not retract fully and I put it down and left it alone as we had more guns to shoot.
Later on during a lull in the shooting I got the EAA unjammed by smacking the back end of the slide against a carpeted concrete shooting tabletop. Then upon partail disassembly I found a very dirty gun (my bad) and a barrel that I could not remove from the slide. I put the whole thing away for future consideration.
After a good night's sleep I think I may have bulged the barrel with an excessively robust handload. I had been loading a 130 gr HP cast boolit with 3.2 gr of Unique but the Dillon powder measure is not the most consistent measure and it may have thrown a heavy charge or more likely I double charged the casing with 6.4 gr or so of Unique when I was forced to remove a 380 casing from the works during a reloading session.
Those pesky 380's somehow always migrate into my stash of 9 MM cases no matter how much sorting and examination the stash gets. When they go thru the Dillon casefeeder, they being shorter in height than the 9 MM casing, they jam the injection of a new case and I hafta stop everything and remove the offending 380 case with a deft manipulation of an antique screwdriver.
I caught myself with two overfull cases of powder the other day as I am usually very diligent when I am loading 9 mm's cuz they can KABOOM if you don't watch what you are doing.
I suppose now I am going to have to spring for a new barrel for the EAA if we can remove the old one from the slide. It just ain't coming out without some help.
I may have to go back to loading the 9's on the Dillon Square Deal press as it is pretty much impossible to double charge a case in that press as it auto indexes. That would be a shame since I can load these rounds much faster in the 550 with the casefeeder than the Square Deal press.
I suppose faster ain't always better.