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A buddy of mine has been having issues with his FEG Hi Power clone....fire two rounds, then the third would jam because the second shell would not extract.
I did a little research and found some photos showing the issue and discovered the issue more than likely was the extractor spring. I told him to go ahead and order the spring and I would do what I can to replace it in his gun. He shoots from time to time, but doesn't feel comfortable taking anything apart.
This morning he came to visit and we got to work. Field stripped the pistol, removed (in order) the firing pin retainer, firing pin and spring. Punched out the roll pin on the magazine disconnect safety, took it out and then took the pin out and removed the extractor.....the spring looked pretty, well, fugly. Put the new spring in, put the pin in, put the magazine disconnect safety and its pin back in, put the firing pin and retainer back in and put the gun back together.
Put the mag in, pulled the trigger and the hammer would not fall. Took it all apart again.....realized we put the disconnect safety in BACKWARD. Whoops.
Righted everything, put it all back together and took it to the range.
1st box of ammo was Magtech. Flawless.
2nd box was a 100 rd box of WWB. Crap. FTE every third round again. My buddy was getting pissed.
We drove around town looking for some more 9mm ammo and only found a guy selling a $9 box of Federal for $39.99. Told him to suck it and moved on.
I caught my neighbor and asked if he had any 9mm....he said "Sure." He doesn't have a 9mm pistol! He had a box of ammo, though.
Cleaned the gun, took it back out with the different ammo.....100% reliability.
New extractor spring worked. Decent ammo worked. WWB is garbage and will never come near any gun I am around.
I now know the inside of a Hi Power slide pretty well.
I did a little research and found some photos showing the issue and discovered the issue more than likely was the extractor spring. I told him to go ahead and order the spring and I would do what I can to replace it in his gun. He shoots from time to time, but doesn't feel comfortable taking anything apart.
This morning he came to visit and we got to work. Field stripped the pistol, removed (in order) the firing pin retainer, firing pin and spring. Punched out the roll pin on the magazine disconnect safety, took it out and then took the pin out and removed the extractor.....the spring looked pretty, well, fugly. Put the new spring in, put the pin in, put the magazine disconnect safety and its pin back in, put the firing pin and retainer back in and put the gun back together.
Put the mag in, pulled the trigger and the hammer would not fall. Took it all apart again.....realized we put the disconnect safety in BACKWARD. Whoops.
Righted everything, put it all back together and took it to the range.
1st box of ammo was Magtech. Flawless.
2nd box was a 100 rd box of WWB. Crap. FTE every third round again. My buddy was getting pissed.
We drove around town looking for some more 9mm ammo and only found a guy selling a $9 box of Federal for $39.99. Told him to suck it and moved on.
I caught my neighbor and asked if he had any 9mm....he said "Sure." He doesn't have a 9mm pistol! He had a box of ammo, though.
Cleaned the gun, took it back out with the different ammo.....100% reliability.
New extractor spring worked. Decent ammo worked. WWB is garbage and will never come near any gun I am around.
I now know the inside of a Hi Power slide pretty well.
