My new milsurp - CANADIAN Inglis Hi Power 9mm - LOTS of pictures

So today I had the pistol at the range and with IVI 9mm the pistol was jamming every couple of rounds - no idea whats up. I would get the spent casing sticking sideways out of the ejection port causing a stoppage. I then switched to some 1942 and 1943 dated Cdn army surplus ammo and the pistol fired and cycled beautifully with no issues - fairly accurate actually :p The pistol also ate a few commercial rounds with no problems at all.

Any idea whats causing the IVI to fail? The ammo itself is in decent shape cosmetically, no rust or corrosion. The lot was from 1992.
 
Nice. I have one that is slightly earlier than yours, serial number 2T60--. I have had mine for 20 years and bought it from MilArm in Edmonton. Very nice to shoot and I try to do that every once in a while. They are a nice pistol to shoot and still look good.

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IIRC, Canadian WWII vintage 9mm cartridges were fairly "hot" loads - same ammo for the Sten and the Inglis ......

Mind you, I've never had any problems to speak of with my No. 2 Inglis pistol, with any ammo .....

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Hawkshadow said:
How did the brass look? Was it bending the rims?
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Nope, brass was coming out fine. It was weird, all the ammo worked great except the stuff that was designed for it :eek: The WW2 dated stuff literally shot out about 6 inches of flame from the barrel however very, VERY hot stuff.

The WW2 dated surplus also burned a lot cleaner then the IVI, the brass is really nice strong, boxer primed stuff. Should reload well! I guess I'm just dissapointed with the IVI ammo.
 
Hm... The only thing that I can think of is bad batch? Some of the dirtiness might have been unburnt powder and as such there wasn't enough power to fully cycle?

Just throwing it out there at such an hour lol
 
Hawkshadow said:
Hm... The only thing that I can think of is bad batch? Some of the dirtiness might have been unburnt powder and as such there wasn't enough power to fully cycle?

Just throwing it out there at such an hour lol
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I started to think the same, stored like shyt at one point in time. Seems as if the IVI didnt have enough "umph"
 
I purchased my No. 2 Inglis from the son of a WWII Canadian Army-officer, who had apparently acquired it immediately after the war ..... quite legally, I was assured. At any rate, it had been registered to him for all that time.

My No. 1 Inglis (i.e. "Chinese Model") is one of the late-production pistols produced during the first run ..... after they decided to discontinue manufacturing them because they couldn't be delivered to the Chinese, anyway). It was made in September 1944, when they had already stopped applying the Chinese markings, and it definitely was diverted to Canadian service, as it bears a nice extra C-Broadarrow stamp on the left side of the slide, at the rear.

The reason mine managed to escape the 1960's or 1970's "retrofit" of all No. 1 pistols remaining in Canadian service (to change them to No. 2 specs by removing the adjustable rear sight and milling off its base, and replacing it with the No. 2-type fixed rear sight on its distinctive "hump") because it was one of 1,578 pistols given as post-war aid to Belgium in 1950 ........ Typical of surplussed Belgian Inglis pistols, it bears no Belgian property marks, but came with a pair of magazines (one of them not Inglis, so presumably FN-produced) both of which are marked with the pistol's serial number in two places the mag body and the baseplate.- which was Belgian military practice .....

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ArtyMan said:
Beautiful Grant, how do the No1 pistols shoot compared to the No2?
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Well ......... based on my limited sampling of one of each type........ ;) ........ pretty much the same - although my No. 1 experiences a few more feeding problems, likely attributable to greater wear.

The big difference, of course, is the sights. The notch on the adjustable rear sight is quite a bit finer - for more effective use with the shoulder stock affixed, which places the sights considerably closer to the eyes. That is okay when shooting the pistol that way, but they are too fine for my tired old eyes with the pistol held out at arms length when the stock is not affixed.
 
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