Heck, no wonder. Yer loadin' it upside down! Choose ammo carefully, or have the mouths reamed. You should send it back, but.....
Ammunition incompatiblity in 380 UL
I noticed right away that the cylinder in the M380 UL has chambers that are too narrow for a large number of bullets on the market, but it literally took me years to take a good picture. Here is what it looks like.
Hold the revolver barrel vertically up, open the cylinder. Take a cartridge, and drop it into the cylinder from the opposite direction (from the front). Do not force! Some brands of ammunition will drop into the cylinder and rest on the mouth of the case. Other brands will only go in partially. These are the brands that make the cylinder jam. The same thing happens when they are inserted from the proper side, so bottoms of the cases stick out and jam the cylinder.
You can see Blazer sticking out in the picture, so a sliver of a bullet is visible.
Needless to say, all those bullets chamber easily in all .380 Auto self-loading pistols, such as Glock 42 and SIG P238.
Hold the revolver barrel vertically up, open the cylinder. Take a cartridge, and drop it into the cylinder from the opposite direction (from the front). Do not force! Some brands of ammunition will drop into the cylinder and rest on the mouth of the case. Other brands will only go in partially. These are the brands that make the cylinder jam. The same thing happens when they are inserted from the proper side, so bottoms of the cases stick out and jam the cylinder.
You can see Blazer sticking out in the picture, so a sliver of a bullet is visible.
Needless to say, all those bullets chamber easily in all .380 Auto self-loading pistols, such as Glock 42 and SIG P238.
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