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After a long period of talking myself into it I picked up a P17 yesterday. I really like the pistol and am looking forward to using it, but the thing absolutely refuses to feed from the magazines regardless of what ammo I am using. Being familiar with other KelTec guns, at first I assumed it was burrs or something on the feed ramp, so I gave it a good clean and a bit of a polish. That didn't do the trick.
Upon further examination, it appears that the recoil spring doesn't have enough strength to strip rounds out of the magazine when it's more than half loaded, the rounds never get anywhere near the feed ramp. When a stoppage occurs, all that's required to resume normal function for a single shot is some pressure on the back of the slide until the round clears the mag, after which everything works perfectly. All three of my mags are like this.
I put probably 100 rounds through a single mag before my frustration grew to the point that I stopped, and after lubing the mags I spent about an hour loading and unloading the top 5 rounds in one of them. It's better, but still not right. I loaded all three and left them that way to see if that would help, but I'm not confident. Does anybody have any other suggestions? Do I need to just send the mags back? Is the recoil spring defective, and therefore too weak? Would love to solve the problem instead of returning the gun and getting a Sig P322, I would rather support KT than Sig and I have other things to spend that extra $300 on...
Upon further examination, it appears that the recoil spring doesn't have enough strength to strip rounds out of the magazine when it's more than half loaded, the rounds never get anywhere near the feed ramp. When a stoppage occurs, all that's required to resume normal function for a single shot is some pressure on the back of the slide until the round clears the mag, after which everything works perfectly. All three of my mags are like this.
I put probably 100 rounds through a single mag before my frustration grew to the point that I stopped, and after lubing the mags I spent about an hour loading and unloading the top 5 rounds in one of them. It's better, but still not right. I loaded all three and left them that way to see if that would help, but I'm not confident. Does anybody have any other suggestions? Do I need to just send the mags back? Is the recoil spring defective, and therefore too weak? Would love to solve the problem instead of returning the gun and getting a Sig P322, I would rather support KT than Sig and I have other things to spend that extra $300 on...
