Lugers failing to feed

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I took my Lugers to the range today and had problems with them not feeding (at all). I would load the first round and it fired great but would not load subsequent rounds, it did eject the spent case. I was using CCI Blazer 9mm Luger 124g ammo.
I tried it on all three Lugers (two 6" and one 5" barrel) and had exactly the same problem. I have used this ammo in my Inglis and Browning HI Powers and it feeds okay.

I am new to Lugers, this was the first time I had them out. Is it the ammo, if so what do you recommend? Any advice you have would be appreciated.

Thanks, Gunstock
 
I am certainly no Luger expert. But I have heard on numerous occasions that there were quite a few dead German officers during WWII with a jammed Luger in their hand.
 
It's not the gun, it's the ammunition. Lugers require a hotter load than the other pistols mentioned for the toggle to function properly. European 9mm is a lot hotter than blazer ammo. The blazer is just not driving the toggle back far enough to pick up the next round
 
I'm writing this a bit late, but John Sukey is quite right. The Luger round as originally made was a hot, truncated cone. Modern 9mm ammunition comes in so many different forms that it will take some trial-and-error before you find the one that works. And the lockup on the Luger is much stronger than that on more modern guns because of the toggle joint. But hotter and round nose FMJ is your best bet to start with.
 
Medium speed burning powder will fix 80% of the problems. The rest is springs, OAL, magazine, ect.. HS-6 is one I recommend, another is Bullseye.
Majority of today’s HG ammo uses fast burning powder and that create problems in Lugers. Too much of the impulse makes toggle cycle so fast and it creates many problems in Lugers.
Do not use hot ammo in your Lugers. You can only damage them. All kinds of breakage will occur.
 
I am not advocating the use of "hot ammo" but rather ammunition loaded to European specs which is definetly hotter than "some" of the stuff on this side of the pond. This is not something "new" Trying a different brand of ammunition may be the easiest solution.
 
I used the wrong term and apologize for the error. The ammunition to use is "hot" only in a comparative way to many US manufactured rounds. It definitely should not be +P or hyper-velocity ammunition. It just needs to provide a recoil impulse stronger than that of the ammunition you've been using. That's what I was trying to get at (although poorly stated) by writing that it will have to be through trial-and-error. The writers who responded with warnings about "hot" ammunition were absolutely correct; it can harm your Luger. And again, I apologize for contributing to confusion by use of the word, "hot". The bullet that the Germans settled on at the beginning of WWI was a round nose of 124 grains, very much like the NATO round in use today.
 
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