PPQ misfire

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wildphil24

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Hi guys,

One month ago I bought a new PPQ 9mm from CanAm since they have the best price!
Finally I went to try it last week with my girlfriend (9mm is for her) and we shot 250rnd of good ammo from two different manufacturer.

On 3 different occasions, the striker didn't hit the primer. Every time I carefully extracted the round, examinated the primer that was untouched, replaced it in the magazine and then it fired perfectly. Everytime the trigger felt as usual and the stricker clicked like if it was dropped on an empty chamber.

The gun was pretty clean when I received it, I just lubed it a little following the instructions. There was no failure to feed or failure to extract. It always locked back on an empty mag. In other words, it was perfectly reliable beside these 3 stricker failures.

I'm sure I'd get a great service by contacting CanAm. I just thought that with a thread someone could know the explanation and suggest to clean the striker channel instead of shipping it back (ATT, delay and all).
Any idea?

Cheers,
Philippe
 
push the pin out and see if it's deformed, if nothing, take it apart and give it a good clean.
it might be a little burr that is stopping the pin safety to move properly. Walthers are very reliable but due to the type of machining & fitting they have they need a break in period of about 300 rounds, you will see some burrs inside the slide thoughout this process, one might have gotten inside the pin channel or inside the pin safety channel.
I am sure you do not need to send this to anybody, take it apart and clean and I am almost sure you are golden.
 
Make sure the striker channel is dry, otherwise striker guns (even "perfect" Austrian made ones) can give you a 'hydraulic' failure - essentially they try to suck and blow at the same time, and get the kind of response you'd expect from that.
 
enefgee said:
Make sure the striker channel is dry, otherwise striker guns (even "perfect" Austrian made ones) can give you a 'hydraulic' failure - essentially they try to suck and blow at the same time, and get the kind of response you'd expect from that.
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If it's the Navy version, which is likely up here in Canada, the striker channel is designed to prevent this from happening. At least this is how it's marketed. I agree that a detail strip and thorough cleaning of the slide, paying special attention to the striker channel, should be your first step. You never know what may have found it's way in there during storage at/transport from the factory.
 
What do you mean by the primer being untouched? no marking whatsoever or a very very small dent? The marking a firing pin does on a primer is extremely small, put the recoil push back on the primer making it bigger. It could be a munition problem
 
Mine did the same thing. Not sure exactly what the cause was, be it oil in the firing pin channel, or a small burr causing things to hang up, but the problem went away after I stripped and cleaned the pistol a few times and eventually shot a few hundred rounds.
 
this is correct.

Garonimus said:
If it's the Navy version, which is likely up here in Canada, the striker channel is designed to prevent this from happening. At least this is how it's marketed. I agree that a detail strip and thorough cleaning of the slide, paying special attention to the striker channel, should be your first step. You never know what may have found it's way in there during storage at/transport from the factory.
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