Light Strikes

[Deetroit]

I've been experiencing light strikes lately. (Used to fire 100%) 
Ammo will fire on 2nd or 3rd strike.  One FTF here or there has built up to 1 or 2 per box of Freedom Munition 115 grain and 124 grain (ammo works fine in my cm9).

Gun and mods:
SP01 Tac.
11.5# Main Spring
Extended Firing Pin
Reduced Power Firing Pin Spring
Competition Hammer (Just installed but was having light strikes before)

Cleaning the firing pin channel seemed help but I'm still not at 100%.  I haven't polished the channel or the firing pin. 

I'll try the 13# spring but from what I have read it should run fine with the 11.5#. 

Any suggestions? 

[copemech]

I run the 13# springs for optimum reliability but I do seem to recall a couple of times when I had to doublestrike a Freedom round.

[1SOW]

The 11.5 # should run smoothly on the American made primers -- CCI being the hardest--
and maybe some others.
I don't know what primer Freedom uses.

edited to add:  Assuming an extended FP and lighter FP spring.

[Dirty J]

I've had a few hard primers from Freedom lately. Got a few failure to fire from even stock glocks... and with a 4lb FP spring... Forget about it!

I'd try some other ammo just to eliminate the possibility.

[rich63]

Deetroit,

I just received my latest order from Freedom Munitions, and I had a few problems with it. I ordered 9 mm 115 gr HP 300 Reman rounds and 14 of those rounds the bullet was recessed noticeably. Each box had at least 2. I also ordered 9 mm 115 gr XTP Hornady Reman 250 rounds and only 1 bullet was recessed.

I called them and they are going to replace the order with no problem. UPS came yesterday, provided the label and, off the order went.

I'm not sure how old your ammo is and my problem has nothing to do with yours. Perhaps it's the ammo and not your hammer spring. As you stated, your ammo worked fine in a different gun.

I need to say that I have been using Freedom Munitions ammo in various calibers for several years with no problems until now. I just felt compelled to pass along my latest experience with Freedom Munitions.

[Deetroit]

I ran some Freedom Munition ammo through today with the 13# spring and it went bang 100 out of 100.  Now what I need to do is try some other ammo with the 11# spring.  I think that should satisfy the scientific process. 

I'm hoping it's just a (slightly) bad batch of ammo even though I have 2K rounds of it.  I've had great results with the Freedom Munition ammo.  I get great service and order whenever there is free shipping ( to take advantage of the first time buyer free shipping offer, everyone in my family has ordered ammo even if they don't shoot).   IMHO it's still a good value for practice ammo even if it turns out this batch has a few lemons.

[Dirty J]

Don't take my input as bashing Freedom. I really dig their stuff

I'm also a regular user. Just reporting that I've also had recent trouble out of my last order (124gr 9mm NEW). Probably had 8-9 FTF out of the 900rds I've shot.

[Deetroit]

Don't take my input as bashing Freedom.

I didn't[emoji108]

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