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Greetings.

I recently purchased a P9S Combat 9mm....this is my second P9S 9mm. I sold off my first one many years back.

I cleaned the gun and took it to a range yesterday with a couple hundred rounds. First off was a box of 50 Remington 115 grain TEMC Leadless rounds which fired with no problems.

Next up were a box of 50 Speer 124 grain Gold Dot JHPs......first 15 rounds....no problems....next few rounds....disaster. The rounds were chambering, but not discharging. There weren't any primer hits/marks at all.

Racking the slide after doing "tap, racks" did not result in any "bangs". I later discovered why. The rounds were slipping the extractor into the chamber. As such, racking the slide would not only fail to extract the chambered round, but would also create a double feed malfunction. Further, the extractor was resting on the outer portion of the rim of each cartridge likely creating a gap long enough between the primer and the firing pin....so the firing pin wouldn't reach the primer to discharge the round.

I took the gun home and cleaned it.....especially the bolt and extractor. I chambered some 9mm snap caps....those "rounds" also slipped the extractor and would fail to eject.

Any ideas as to what is wrong? Any suggestions as to the parts I need to get back up and running? Try to get a new extractor, compression spring, bolt head, and/or rollers?

Once the gun is operational again, I wanted to get three things done to it: lighten the DA trigger pull a little bit, have a gunsmith build up slide mounted safety by lengthing it and widening it a little and have the trigger grooves removed and the entire trigger thinned and polished. Are these "do-able" mods on a P9S? Any suggested gunsmiths?

Thanks!

You might try Bruce Gray. He's been working on these H&K's for as long as they've existed and used to be the captain of H&K's IPSC team. His email address is Grayguns@aol.com and tell him that Mike Detty sent you!

I just fired off an e-mail to Mr. Gray and I let him you sent me....thanks much!

I will post a follow-up to this "story."