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    Posted: 15 Sep 2023 at 8:50pm
Tony,

I'll have to try that in mine.  It didn't shoot so well in the PMR-30 (Gold Dot did).  But I've been shooting it in the CMR-30 (which seems to run anything).  I think I have some left.......

I've been real happy with the Aguila 22 LR (and shorts).  It's fun to load the Aguila shorts in a lever action (it holds 22 instead of 15).  My son just loved that.  Now that he is older, he just reloads it more.  

Jason
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This is what runs best in all mine.  I have a 3", 4.5", and 6".

Tony
Run it up, until you blow it up, then back it down a bit.
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I’m new here, but it’s really good to hear you found ammo that works. You have a REALLY nice pistol there!
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Well its been more than a year since I made this thread, If anyone cared for an update. I found Aguila 22 magnum ammo to function flawlessly in my gun, I bought a good amount that should last me quite a few years of shooting, I must have tried 10-15 different brand and types, this was the only one that worked perfect along with the old Winchester ammo. It definitely turned some heads during a steel challenge match.
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Just FYI, whenever I want to practice dry-firing any semi-auto pistol with a hammer, no matter how robust or fragile, I wedge a foam earplug in the cavity at the rear of the slide. That blocks the hammer from reaching the firing pin and I can safely dry fire anything, including my Auto Mags, endlessly…..
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Craig,

I will say this much as for the firing pin.  DO NOT dry fire this pistol!!!!  I made that mistake and it broke the hammer end of the pin off.

I get the Hornady ammo from BassPro Shop.  I'm sure Cabela's has it too.

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Bill Wilson
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Originally posted by TonyRumore TonyRumore wrote:

You might take a look at the breach face of the slide.  If there are tooling marks/roughness, it can prevent the case head from sliding smoothly upward across the breach face during feeding.
If the case can't get parallel with the bore, it's not going to feed.

Tony


Hey Tony, thanks for the advice, the breech face looks pretty good on this one, I suppose a polish wouldn't hurt it though, only issue I have now is ejection, slide not traveling far enough rearward for the spent case to hit the ejector, and then it becomes jammed against the barrel.

I have not taken the firing pin out, bit looks like I would need to removed the rear sight to do so? If anyone can confirm, it's a very small roll pin in there id hate to loose, not sure I have any that small in my kits.
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You might take a look at the breach face of the slide.  If there are tooling marks/roughness, it can prevent the case head from sliding smoothly upward across the breach face during feeding.
If the case can't get parallel with the bore, it's not going to feed.

Tony
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Hey Bill, Thanks for posting. I think I actually have the aftermarket mags sorted, I'll have to test again. But with the spring cut and some movement and smoothing of the feed lips they seemed to be worked. only experienced failure to eject after that. they were no longer jamming rounds into the bottom of the slide.

I was able to buy 7 more boxes of old Winchester(the only stuff that has ran 100%) of the fellow I purchased the pistol from. So I'll be able to thoroughly test the other magazines out.

I haven't tried the Hornady ammo I purchased yet but none of the other 30 grain ammo seemed to work, Perhaps the Hornady will. It is pricey compared to the rest. I've seen numerous posts about Aguila working in the finnicky guns, Its tough to track down up here, I found once place with it in stock but the shipping was a bit of a killer.

As for improvement modifications now I believe I've done just about all I can do to the pistol.

Craig
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Craig,

Welcome to the board.  I was likely the one you read about cutting down the recoil spring.

I too have not had any luck with the aftermarket mags, only OEM originals seem to have the proper angle and release to the shell rim needed to function.

One thing I was careful to do during inspection was to put the slide on without the recoil spring and cycle rounds very slowly into the chamber making note of their exact movement from magazine to breach.  I had to make slight bends to the magazine lips to get the rounds to feed straight into the chamber.  All the polishing and refinement work certainly helped along with cutting the spring.  I've had the best luck with Hornady ammo, but the gun will function with other brands just fine.

Hopefully you'll get it sorted.

Regards,
Bill Wilson
Lee's Summit, MO
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