James Fischer
.22LR
I bought a pair of the NON-light-up Go Gauge Dupont Delrin followers (because I think a flashing light on a shotgun is silly) as they have them priced low, and Delrin is good material.
But I noticed that after cycling some snap caps through our matched "His & Hers" pair of Shockwaves, that one of them jammed, and needed some force and wiggling to allow insertion of the first shell into the magazine tube. So the follower was jammed at the receiver end, and could not be easily pushed in with a finger or a shell.
That's a non-goal, so I checked, and the spring is as far over the spring shaft of the follower as possible, the spring-retaining cap is properly inserted into the magazine tube at the muzzle end, flush with the end of the tube, and there isn't anything else to see here, as there are no other parts.
But the receiver end of the follower DOES have a protrusion so that it makes a flat surface with the receiver end of the magazine tube assembly, to push the end of the shell out so that it clears the surfaces. Could this be jamming due to a slight misalignment, where the follower is getting twisted cockeyed in the magazine tube without a shell to keep it "straight" in the tube?
I'm not sure how to debug this problem. Any hints would be appreciated.
But I noticed that after cycling some snap caps through our matched "His & Hers" pair of Shockwaves, that one of them jammed, and needed some force and wiggling to allow insertion of the first shell into the magazine tube. So the follower was jammed at the receiver end, and could not be easily pushed in with a finger or a shell.
That's a non-goal, so I checked, and the spring is as far over the spring shaft of the follower as possible, the spring-retaining cap is properly inserted into the magazine tube at the muzzle end, flush with the end of the tube, and there isn't anything else to see here, as there are no other parts.
But the receiver end of the follower DOES have a protrusion so that it makes a flat surface with the receiver end of the magazine tube assembly, to push the end of the shell out so that it clears the surfaces. Could this be jamming due to a slight misalignment, where the follower is getting twisted cockeyed in the magazine tube without a shell to keep it "straight" in the tube?
I'm not sure how to debug this problem. Any hints would be appreciated.