FN Browning 1910/22 jamming on first round not ejecting properly

[bnz41]

Hi Everyone,

Not been on here for a while as my shooting hobby has changed from Military rifles to Rare & Historic Hand Guns.

I'm in the UK and cartridge fed handguns are banned unless it has a long barrel and a metal rod sticking out the rear. We can have muzzle loaders but that's not really an interest of ours.

Banned pistols can be had if your are a section 5 dealer or UK shooters with a firearms certificate can apply to there local police force you can have either a section 7.1 Historic certificate where this is a collection of older dated pistols but you can't shoot them but can
keep at home, or what we have is a section 7.3 Historic collection which you can shoot but have to be stored at a secure range in my case Bisley.

I need advice if anyone can help. We have a FN Browning 1910/22 dated 1925 in .380acp lovely little pistol but it keeps jamming. Load rounds into the mag, load mag, cock the action to chamber a round & fire, the fired case get stuck in the ejection port and action tries to load another round. It has been into a gunsmith he has given up on it but he replaced the main over the barrel spring and extractor for new ones. I have tried 3 different mags and it does it with all 3.
Any ideas would be very helpful & this is not the only pistol we own.

Thanks in advance.

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[browningautorifle]

Since these rely on the firing pin to eject the empty case, the extractor must hold it firmly enough for the firing pin (striker) to eject it when the slide comes back and in effect re-cocks the firing striker. I wonder if your extractor or spring are still at fault and could use replacement? I take it you're using factory ammo, it has enough snap to cycle? I don't think it's the mags, they feed. Is the chamber smooth?

[bnz41]

Hi Jim,
Many thanks for the reply, the extractor and spring are new bought in the US and posted over to the gunsmith here for him to fit, I have the old parts. Yes tried 3 lots of factory ammo same result Geco, Winchester & Magtech. Yes the chamber is smooth.
As our pistols are in secure storage I cant just turn up and get the pistol it has to be on a range day.

[browningautorifle]

the extractor and spring are new bought in the US

Yes, that was my point, WHERE did the parts come from... OK then I wonder if the striker was replaced would it have the sufficient snap to push it out on ejection? The extractor holds the casing in place to guide it out when the firing pin part of the striker contacts it...if it's too short it might be timed wrong...? I know there's other guys here with these...hang on a minute...

These are blowback but if you take out the extractor, you'll find it doesn't clear the empty out. The extractor also clears out training ammo and live rounds from the chamber...so those that don't think it's needed...

[Lee Enfield]

Since these rely on the firing pin to eject the empty case, the extractor must hold it firmly enough for the firing pin (striker) to eject it when the slide comes back and in effect re-cocks the firing striker. I wonder if your extractor or spring are still at fault and could use replacement? I take it you're using factory ammo, it has enough snap to cycle? I don't think it's the mags, they feed. Is the chamber smooth?

What BAR says. I had a 7.65 m.1922 with a shortened firing pin, it mal ejected as you have described.

Replacement of the firing pin resulted in a properly functioning pistol.

Also had a Browning with dirty cosmoline grease in firing oin channel. This one merely required detail cleaning to solve the problem.

[browningautorifle]

Replacement of the firing pin resulted in a properly functioning pistol.

It's about the only thing left. It isn't the mags...or it wouldn't feed, not give ejection issue... New striker...(firing pin)?

[old tanker]

Is the failure to eject only on the first round in the magazine or pretty much all of them? I am tending to favor that the striker is not hitting the fired case with enough force to make the empty clear the ejection port. Could be striker is too short? Slide not coming back far enough? If the ejection is a bit late is the slide bouncing the empty back in? Sometimes it take a good eye to see what is happening.

[bnz41]

Hi and thank you for your post,

Every fired case gets stuck in the ejection port apart from the last one when the mag is empty. You say a good eye its been several months in a gunsmiths shop you would have thought they would have noticed something but they gave up on it.

[browningautorifle]

they gave up on it.

I say not much of a gunsmith...

[old tanker]

I say not much of a gunsmith...

Given the onerous storage requirements the OP mentioned, is there anyone left in England who didn't see service in the Crimea who got to tinker with live firearms long enough to learn how they work?