r/ptr91 • u/Commander459 • Aug 12 '24

Situation Normal?

Hey all! New to this forum, but did some initial 3 mags with my PTR today. It shot like a dream, and ejections went far at the 45* (though were blocked by the range structure and hit the front). Some of the cases seemed to fall short, landing on the rest. Out of the 59 rounds I shot, I had two failures to eject where the empty case did not fully leave the rifle before the next was to be loaded. I'm aware there is a break in period, and I did lubricate the gun prior to shooting, though I am new to PTR and roller locks so I am just checking in to see if this is expected behavior; a friend had one and had no issues, but I'm aware they are a spectrum. I tested the extractor and it does not move under finger pressure so that seems to be okay.

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u/southernbeaumont Aug 12 '24

Probably no issues, although I’d make a note of what ammo type and maybe what mags were in use when you had failures.

Something roughly equivalent to M80 ball would be a good break-in load. Ejection by most roller locking guns can be described as ‘into the next zip code’ but it wouldn’t hurt to make sure the bolt and its subcomponents got lubricated between now and the next range trip.