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Desert Eagle .50ae problems.
leeblackman
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Ok so I was stupid and dished out $1400 on a new Desert Eagle at cabela's. I had the extra money I'd been saving, and left with a big smile on my face and hole in my wallet.
Anyway I'm having some problems, kinda malfunctions. Ammo locally is costing me $2.38 per shot so I can't exactly diagnose by trial and error.
First problem is the magazine. Do these things have to be broken in or does the follower normally stick? There is some kinda spring loaded wedge that pushes out of the side of the follower that is supposed to engage the slide lock after the last round is shot, but its creating enough friction to hold the follower. Seems like the single coil magazine spring isn't that strong. But its not what I think is causing malfunction because it only seems to stick when manually loading and unloading, not when shooting.
My second problem is, both times (only fired two magazines worth of ammo ever thru it) I shot the gun, with a full magazine, the first round fired, but the second round the slide did not go completely into battery. I to give it a nudge with my thumb maybe 1/8" forward, but then it functioned fine the remaining round. The slide locked back, I inserted a fresh fully loaded magazine, pressed the slide lock lever down and the slide went into battery. I fired the first round, it ejected fine, but then the same deal, the slide did not go completely home and I had to nudge it again with my thumb about 1/8" and the rest of the mag went fine?
I don't have alot of money or ammo left to diagnose problems via shooting like I said. I did follow the factory assembly and disassembly video and cleaned the factory preservative and re-lubricated the gun using break free CLP.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions on something I might have missed or need to double check? Is it possible that the gun being new just needs to be shot and "broken in"? Anyone else had any experience with the same problem?
For all my misspellings and really really bad grammar I want to apologize, I went to a public school
Anyway I'm having some problems, kinda malfunctions. Ammo locally is costing me $2.38 per shot so I can't exactly diagnose by trial and error.
First problem is the magazine. Do these things have to be broken in or does the follower normally stick? There is some kinda spring loaded wedge that pushes out of the side of the follower that is supposed to engage the slide lock after the last round is shot, but its creating enough friction to hold the follower. Seems like the single coil magazine spring isn't that strong. But its not what I think is causing malfunction because it only seems to stick when manually loading and unloading, not when shooting.
My second problem is, both times (only fired two magazines worth of ammo ever thru it) I shot the gun, with a full magazine, the first round fired, but the second round the slide did not go completely into battery. I to give it a nudge with my thumb maybe 1/8" forward, but then it functioned fine the remaining round. The slide locked back, I inserted a fresh fully loaded magazine, pressed the slide lock lever down and the slide went into battery. I fired the first round, it ejected fine, but then the same deal, the slide did not go completely home and I had to nudge it again with my thumb about 1/8" and the rest of the mag went fine?
I don't have alot of money or ammo left to diagnose problems via shooting like I said. I did follow the factory assembly and disassembly video and cleaned the factory preservative and re-lubricated the gun using break free CLP.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions on something I might have missed or need to double check? Is it possible that the gun being new just needs to be shot and "broken in"? Anyone else had any experience with the same problem?
For all my misspellings and really really bad grammar I want to apologize, I went to a public school
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The last new gun that I bought was a glock, so its been a while, everything else I had purchased since were the used new-ish kinda guns.
I looked on wolff springs website to see if there was an extra power magazine spring but no go there. I will clean and re-lube the gun, and double check my reassembly before I shoot again. I just really really don't wanna trial and error it. Thats why I was wondering if anyone else had similar experience.
I'm with Perry Shooter, oil. I had a 50 AE Desert Eagle for about 2 years and never had a single function problem, and I put 300+ rounds through it. You realy need to start loading if your going to keep that gun, and remember you can't shoot lead in an Eagle. Thats why I sold mine.
W.D.
Also I would reccomend you sling shot the slide instead of using the slide release to chamber the 1st round.
That's a fun gun to shoot. I recall when it first came out some kids rented it in a range booth next to me. They fired a couple rounds each and were intimidated by it. I asked them if I could give it a try and put a nice group on their target. They asked me if I wanted to buy the rest of their ammo off them. I told them it was way to rich for my blood.
Not sure if you reload, but I recommend you save all your brass. It has value.