gtZip wrote:crunchysoundbite wrote:MikeTalbot wrote:Mr. Haley
I'm a gun hater. I hate my mini-14 tactical that has an extraction problem - damn thing supposed work!
Talbot
Some guns just don't work well with aluminum or steel casings, or just foreign made ammo. Any of those? One shooter here had a Ruger .22 rimfire semi- auto here. Brand new. Kept jamming on re-load. No other gun has missfired, (miss-loaded), more than Rugers here. Glock .40s are next. My taurus hasn't miss-fired or miss-loaded yet. As a precaution, always keep your muzzle down range until completely clear or you may have another reason to hate your gun.
Hogwash !
I don't deal with .40, but i think that I'd have to immerse my G26 in some swamp mud, then run over it with a truck to get it to malfunction.
Your .26 may operate well. I think it is a more balanced round than the short and stubby casing of a .40. Some firearms, IMO, are not designed to be fed the exact same way as another. For example, the .22LR Ruger's round is too skinny for the magazine to hold them in staggered single file. During feeding, it wants to feed 2 rounds, stopping the action completely. Fine tuning may help but, that should have been done by the manufacturer before it goes into it's market box. >40's also have the flat top bullet which is horrendous for feed malfunction. for this reason, I would not buy any protective device that will fail in action by design. I don't care what ballistics show that a flat top bullet can do,(if it performs well), I want to know that upon drawing it, I'm not going to spend the last micro seconds trying to figure out what went wrong.