[Slacker]

My $ says they send it back with new mags.

 

[fieldgrade]

My $ says they send it back with new mags.

There's an idea. Maybe someone locally with an LCP could loan you some mags for a couple days to see if that isolates the problem without investing more time/effort/money in the wee peashooter.

 

[wsfiredude]

Fiocchi line of Perfecta Line ammo Sport ammunition. Fiocchi ammunition, high quality Made in Italy.

Sorta like FIAT...know what that stands for?

"Fix It Again ah-Tony!"

 

[RedneckFur]

I bought a box of perfecta a few weeks ago to try in my Ruger SR9c. I got several short strokes and failures to eject. I also noticed that the recoil and sound were considerably less than a lot of other 9mm I've shot.

After firing one round that was very nearly a squib (actually saw the bullet leaving the barrel at about 300fps) I tossed the rest of it in the trash. Perfecta 5.56 seems to be ok, but in my opinion, their 9mm is garbage.

 

[jayne]

When it returns, I'm ready to test:

 

[jayne]

My $ says they send it back with new mags.

I have 4 bad mags? I've got them all numbered so I know which are which and couldn't tell a pattern to the failure with the mags.

 

[Slacker]

I have 4 bad mags? I've got them all numbered so I know which are which and couldn't tell a pattern to the failure with the mags.

Whelp, so much for that theory!

 

[jayne]

Whelp, so much for that theory!

I tried to eliminate everything prior to sending it in. I had access to another LCP and was going to start swapping parts around, but then what if I somehow screw up the other guys gun? Improbable but not impossible.

 

[xRHINOx]

The Sig needed the feed ramp polished and a good lube on the extractor spring. Working like a champ again. Also ran a few boxes of higher grain bullets through it. Hope they get it worked out. The wife has an LCP and it has ran great.

 

[jayne]

Ruger emailed me today saying they had received my gun. That's a nice touch.

 

[IrishCannon]

Subbed for interest. Just picked up a new LCP-C so I'm curious.

 

[jayne]

Just got it back from Ruger today. Fast turnaround, the longest delay was me getting to a fedex location to drop it off.

The work order says:

Replaced - extractor, takedown pin
Repaired - barrel - polished chamber

Says they fired 20 rounds of BHA 100gr FMJ through it without incident.

Hopefully I can get it out this weekend and confirm their findings.

 

[jayne]

Thanks to @NoKimberDave for getting me into to DPRC (or DRPC?) today and assisting with the LCP testing. We had 9 types of ammo, 3 mags and 4 shooters. Apparently I've lost the 4th mag somewhere...

Worked -

• 91gr FMJ ball Tul
• 94gr FMJ ball Wolf
  
• 90gr XTP HP hyperclean
• 95gr FMJ flat nose winchester "train & defend"
  
• 90gr FMJ ball PMC bronze

Didn't work -

• 95gr FMJ ball Fiocchi
• 100gr FMJ flat nose HSM
• 95gr FMJ ball Aguila
• 95gr FMJ ball Blazer brass

All those that failed did so in the same way, with the round hanging up on the feed ramp and a slight tap to the back of the slide would get it to chamber, fire and extract correctly. Rounds were fired out of at least 2 different mags. Some of the HSM was fired through another shooters' kel tec and it worked, and the rest of the HSM and blaser was dumped through a G42 at the end of the test and it all ran just fine. Stupid G42.

So clearly it's better, but it's still not 100%. The good news is that it cycled the XTP load that I carry it with just fine, and the PMC bronze because I have half a case of that stuff. I have some hornady critical defense but I forgot it at home, but I'll run some of that through it next outing to see how it works as an alternate carry load to the XTP.

 

[jayne]

Got to a different range today (I feel so popular with so many people inviting me places) and got to test the ammo I left behind. The combined results now look like:

Worked -

• 91gr FMJ ball Tul steel
  
• 94gr FMJ ball Wolf steel
  
• 90gr XTP HP hyperclean brass
  
• 95gr FMJ flat nose winchester "train & defend" brass
  
• 90gr FMJ ball PMC bronze brass
  
• 95gr FMJ ball american eagle brass
  
• 94gr FMJ ball silver bear steel
  
• 90gr JHP critical defense (that was an expensive test!)

Didn't work -

• 95gr FMJ ball Fiocchi brass
  
• 100gr FMJ flat nose HSM brass remanufactured
  
• 95gr FMJ ball Aguila brass
  
• 95gr FMJ ball Blazer brass
• 94gr FMJ ball PPU brass

The PPU, Fiocchi and Aguila were fired from my mags through another (older) low round count LCP and both worked fine. One tester said that I was running the gun too dry so we lubed the crap out of it and tried the Fiocchi and PPU again and they worked... until they didn't. So other than getting oil all over the extra lube didn't help.

The critical defense hit noticeably higher, switched to a 6 o'clock hold on the plate rack and started knocking them down with authority. All the other ammo was center hold and doing well.

The trigger and frame pin in the back keep walking out of the right side of the gun, I clicked them back into place every few mags. Retesting with the pins in various places didn't change the results.

The worst ammo was clearly the Aguila. It was 100% failure rate within 2 rounds on every test. Kinda cool to verify results after every positive that worked I could run a few of those just to verify the gun hadn't magically healed itself. On the down side, I'm out of Aguila after we fired the last of it through the other LCP so I have to fire 5-10 rounds of the other bad ammo to get a malfunction.

 

[jayne]

I emailed Ruger and let them know the results of the testing. I'm pretty sure I'm willing to live with it at this point, as long as it continues to be 100% reliable with the 90gr PMC, 90gr critical defense and 90gr XTP.