Did you get a chance to try some out?Has anyone used steel cased ammo in their Spectrum? Academy had Monarch steel cased at a price that was too good to pass up. I bought 2 boxes, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
Never, ever oil a firing pin or firing pin hole. The oil picks up gunpowder residue and other debris and can lead to all kinds of misfire issues. The pistol can even go full auto if the firing pin gets stuck sticking forward out of the hole. Swabbing the face or external surface of the hole does not remove all of the oil either when there is a high chance the oil has already run back into the firing pin tunnel.I did dig out one small piece of "smegma" out of the firing pin hole with the tip of a toothpick. I followed that up by adding a drop of oil in the firing pin hole and then swabbing out with a Q-tip.
Not wax...it's lacquer.Some steel case ammo also has a wax substance on the case which will build up in chamber causing a feeding failure.
I own many pistols both large and small and use steel case in most of them a majority of the time with little to no problems. My Spectrum runs quite good with steel case Wolf, Tula, and Monarch. Obviously I would never carry it with any of this stuff but for range use it is good enough. Yes the Steelcase seems to have harder primers but I have very little problem with them igniting most of the time.
I have some wolf ammo I tried running. Mines would run, but hard to load one in the chamber. I had to violently rack the slide several times before it would load the round. Once it was loaded it ran fine. Had no problem with brass ammo though.I own many pistols both large and small and use steel case in most of them a majority of the time with little to no problems. My Spectrum runs quite good with steel case Wolf, Tula, and Monarch. Obviously I would never carry it with any of this stuff but for range use it is good enough. Yes the Steelcase seems to have harder primers but I have very little problem with them igniting most of the time.