Got the range last weekend. First time in far too long. Was firing my PT111-G2 and it was performing great. Got a few rounds into the 5th mag and suddenly.......CLICK...no BANG! Waiting a good 30 seconds before ejecting the round and lo and behold, a BIG dent in the primer. This is the 3rd time this has happened since owning the PT111. First time (several years ago) I instinctively pulled the trigger a 2nd time and the round fire and then I thought "I should've checked the primer for dents". 2nd time, and this time I did check and both times there was a decent dent in the primer. All three misfires were from a batch of WWB 100-round boxes (I think) that I bought during the ammo shortage so I am 99% convinced that the ammo is the problem, not the PT111. The 2nd time this happened, I put the round back in the mag and cycled it and it fired fine. This time...click, click, click. Ended up turning the round over to the range to let them dispose of it.
Despite being almost positive that I had defective rounds all 3 times this has happened, I decided to finally clean out the firing-pin/striker channel. It was pretty easy to do, even though this was my first time. Got a lot of black grease out of there but it wasn't gritty feeling at all. I'll have to get it back to the range soon to make sure it fires correctly and if I get any more 'clicks' with this same batch of ammo, I will absolutely know it is defective rounds.
The only thing that keeps me from being 100% sure it is ammo causing the problem is that I fire that same ammo out of my SCCY CPX2 and it has never had this same issue. But, it is a rare enough occurrence that maybe I just never had one of those bad rounds in the SCCY mags when I am shooting it.
Despite being almost positive that I had defective rounds all 3 times this has happened, I decided to finally clean out the firing-pin/striker channel. It was pretty easy to do, even though this was my first time. Got a lot of black grease out of there but it wasn't gritty feeling at all. I'll have to get it back to the range soon to make sure it fires correctly and if I get any more 'clicks' with this same batch of ammo, I will absolutely know it is defective rounds.
The only thing that keeps me from being 100% sure it is ammo causing the problem is that I fire that same ammo out of my SCCY CPX2 and it has never had this same issue. But, it is a rare enough occurrence that maybe I just never had one of those bad rounds in the SCCY mags when I am shooting it.