OK so my girlfriend took her firearm class today (given at the gunrange Im a member of) since its her first gun an all and I dont want to teach her my bad habits yet. This was the first time shooting her new MP9c since buying it new.
Few issues
1.) The rounds when ejected fly up and back, they were hitting her in teh shoulder and when I fired it were allmost hitting me in the face. My MP40 (standard) ejects to the right and high like they should.
2.) When she was shooting it it would either not fully eject the spent brass so you get the stove pipe going on or it wouid eject the brass but not load the next round all the way. It would stick about part way before chambering so the slide would be back about 1/4" to 1/2" or so.
Now this only happened when she shot it. I put about 4 full clips thru it and it shot fine (with good accuracy I may add) so I am assuming maybe shes barely hitting the slide with her thumb. I even tried to limpwrist it by holding the gun just hard enough to keep ahold of it and firing several shots. I need to shoot it some more but I am thinking this is the issue.
3.) Now also the rotating take down lever doestn like to stay down. I can get it to stay down but it is like right on the edge of flipping abck up. My 40 doesnt do this, you slide it down and it stays down unless you put some good force on it.
Of these issues I am mainly concerned with the ejection part since the others I think are her shooting method and the third isnt too important. I know there was a thread on the ejection of brass but I didnt see it.
Thanks, and other then that it shot fine for me and was very very accurate. We were only doing 10yds or so for training but I was still impressed.
Few issues
1.) The rounds when ejected fly up and back, they were hitting her in teh shoulder and when I fired it were allmost hitting me in the face. My MP40 (standard) ejects to the right and high like they should.
2.) When she was shooting it it would either not fully eject the spent brass so you get the stove pipe going on or it wouid eject the brass but not load the next round all the way. It would stick about part way before chambering so the slide would be back about 1/4" to 1/2" or so.
Now this only happened when she shot it. I put about 4 full clips thru it and it shot fine (with good accuracy I may add) so I am assuming maybe shes barely hitting the slide with her thumb. I even tried to limpwrist it by holding the gun just hard enough to keep ahold of it and firing several shots. I need to shoot it some more but I am thinking this is the issue.
3.) Now also the rotating take down lever doestn like to stay down. I can get it to stay down but it is like right on the edge of flipping abck up. My 40 doesnt do this, you slide it down and it stays down unless you put some good force on it.
Of these issues I am mainly concerned with the ejection part since the others I think are her shooting method and the third isnt too important. I know there was a thread on the ejection of brass but I didnt see it.
Thanks, and other then that it shot fine for me and was very very accurate. We were only doing 10yds or so for training but I was still impressed.