I've had my CQB Compact for a couple of years now and love it dearly, but at the range yesterday, I experienced my first hiccup in a good few thousand rounds through the gun since new. I must say that I am not ruling out user error on this one as it occurred during a range trip after a long day at work and after having run about 120 rounds through my 9mm HK and at this point about 60 or so rounds through the CQB. Anyway, on to the lone issue I experienced, press the trigger, gun fires I thought the spent casing ejected, but when I got back on target for a follow up shot, I notice the gun hadn't gone back into battery. Turn the gun to see whether it was a feeding or extraction issue, and lo and behold, there's a spent casing caught in the ejection port...completely horizontally and with the case rim facing the muzzle side of the gun. Retracting the slide to drop the empty to the ground cured the problem completely as the next round was picked up and chambered and the gun functioned 100% from there for the balance of about 100 rounds that I had brought with me. I suppose it would be noteworthy to let y'all know I was shooting at an indoor range and the range lanes are about four feet wide and for the majority of the time I was standing there shooting my 1911, spent brass was being deflected all over the place by the lane divider to my right. So here's the question after my rather long dissertation, is this issue user error (I won't rule out limp wristing as my arthritis has been acting up over the last few days), a HIGHLY lucky incident of spend brass being deflected back into the gun or something with the gun that I should investigate further?
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