P380

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My P380 sure does not like the generic Remington hollow points. It went beck to the factory after a bunch of issues. Since then it as been good, except the ammo mentioned. It "fails to fire" on a initially chambered round. Same round fires great in my other 380. Must be the depth of the primer?


It likes the Remington FMJ, so must be related to the primer? Still happy with the gun, but sure which if was 100% reliable.

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I've heard other reports of the 102-grain Remington JHP's being longer in overall length and not working well. I've never tried those, though. I've never noticed any particular ammo being a problem with my P380. Those rounds may not be chambering fully every time.

Wynn:)

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How many rounds do you have through the P380 with the issue? Coincidently after ~900 rounds through my 4yr old P380 had a rem gold saber do the same thing last week. 1st round in mag. It did fire 2nd go around. Now I'm wondering if it did not fully chamber as Wyntrout speculates. The recoil spring seems to have a pretty steep dropoff in tension - when it was new (first ~200 rounds), the ejected cases couldn't always get out of the way fast enough & now maybe the strength is too low to fully seat the first round? Have to see if the failure to ignite repeats.

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My P380 sure does not like the generic Remington hollow points. It went beck to the factory after a bunch of issues. Since then it as been good, except the ammo mentioned. It "fails to fire" on a initially chambered round. Same round fires great in my other 380. Must be the depth of the primer?


It likes the Remington FMJ, so must be related to the primer? Still happy with the gun, but sure which if was 100% reliable.

If you are referring to the "UMC" Remington JHP in the green and white box, I recently bought a 100-round box of them and they ran through my CW380 without a single problem.

My CW380 is less than a year old and I have about 900-1000 rounds through it. After a few failures to go fully into battery and FTE's during the initial break-in, the gun has run flawlessly and eats every kind of ammo I feed it (except for re-loads, which I do not use in this gun at all).

It's interesting how different people have different results using the same ammo in the same model gun. Must be the individual nuances of each gun which are magnified in small, tightly-made guns like the CW380/P380.

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I personally have 700 or so rounds through it. I bought it used, so it has more. The factory replaced the recoil spring about 200 rounds ago.


yes, shooting the green box remingtons. I do not recall the bullet weight. It likes the FMJ, so it may be weight driven.


However, the failures are on Initially chamber rounds. I close the slide with the release. Other ammo is fine.


Same ammo was eaten up with my new G42. Sure wish my P380 was 100%. It is very accurate and compact. With time I guess. it loves the Precision ammo.

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My P380 sure does not like the generic Remington hollow points. It went beck to the factory after a bunch of issues. Since then it as been good, except the ammo mentioned. It "fails to fire" on a initially chambered round. Same round fires great in my other 380. Must be the depth of the primer?


It likes the Remington FMJ, so must be related to the primer? Still happy with the gun, but sure which if was 100% reliable.

I had failure to fire just prior to the firing pin (striker) breaking in my CW380 (300-400 rnds). I sent it off to Kahr and they replaced it While it was gone, I bought a P380. Guess what? Firing pin broke after 300 rnds...strange, and don't know what I could have been doing wrong, but Kahr fixed that too and both guns have been great since.:) . BTW, I stripped the slide completely on the CW380 before returning it, and there was a chunk of metal at the bottom of the channel.