I have had my 40P for many years now and never had a FTF (failed to feed) issue, yesterday I did a Citizens Firearms Safety Course and during the shooting range course had several fail to feed issues which worries me and I am looking for assistance to find out why and what can be done to resolve this.
Due to severe lack of ammo I found some American eagle ammo made by Federal and purchased that normally I use Winchester ammo, I did have a FTF some time ago with the Winchester but it was only once so I put it down as 1 bad shell out of the 500 and nothing to worry about. As of yesterday I am concerned ...is it the ammo, did I clean the gun correctly,have I been cleaning correctly and now have a build up somewhere I dont know about that could be causing this.....please help all suggestions and advise will be extremely helpful.
I do clean the gun after every practice and store it lightly oiled I rotate the magazines every month by removing the ammo from one to the other making sure each mag gets a break at having ammo in it so the spring does not get compressed and I also only load the one mag with 8 in it instead of 10 to help the spring not to be fully compressed.
Please help me resolve this as I love my 40P and want do what is needed to make this gun feed like it has over the years I have owned this gun.