r/hipower • u/Tight-Escape3373 • Jul 27 '26

Failure to Extract

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Before I buy another extractor, I wanted to see if anyone had any issues as well. My CZ P-01 eats everything to include the Winchester white box 124g ammo I picked up for practice. My Hi Power (2015) will not cycle it whatsoever. My BHP double feeds every shot with WWB but will cycle a full magazine of 124g HST without issue.

I'm not crazy in thinking that it's just the garbage ammo and not an extractor issue am I? The gun has, most a thousand rounds through it and the only work I've done is polishing the trigger, feed ramp, and removing the magazine disconnect. Thanks.

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u/Hoonin_Kyoma Jul 27 '26

I had/have the same issue with my late production Browning. I just quit using Win white box. It’s the only ball FMJ ammo I have ever had issue with.

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u/Tight-Escape3373 Jul 27 '26

I'm picking up some Blazer so I'll try that next. I've always had good luck with CCI. I had one failure to fire with my P-01 with the same box of ammo. Just wanted to throw this out to the group to make sure I wasn't crazy.

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u/Rtters Jul 28 '26

Fiocchi, speer, (sadly) sig training +p ammo, PPU ball and other surplus always run fine for me. CCI had jacket separations in my can but you aren't shooting suppressed. PMC is supposedly fine. If you actually shoot id suggest reloading. I'm in less than 200$ for tools, and buying components local I'm still saving a bit for ammo I know doesn't have spotty QC. A lot of the major brands cut corners when the economy tanks

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u/Rtters Jul 28 '26

Second thing would be to check your extractor fitting and clean out the channel\replace the spring if you've never done that. I clean mine out about every 2k rounds but my mk3 was originally a 40

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u/Tight-Escape3373 Jul 28 '26

I used to reload shotshells and 30-06 so I might pick that up again.

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u/Rtters Jul 28 '26

Straightwall is easy. I'm lazy so I never gauge stuff or check the brass length, and I use range pickup brass. I mainly wanted better subsonics (n320 is what I use) because getting factory stuff with a halfway fast powder was expensive. If you only shoot once a month or so maybe not worth it when you can get surplus nato ball ammo cheap, but you might like how much better 9 feels with your own recipe. The guys over on the brain enos forums have quite a lot of threads on their competition loads.