Lately I've doing a lot gun renting at Action Impact. They have the best price for doing that, considering that I was swapping out a lot of different guns, and they don't charge extra for doing that.
Once in a while there will be a problem with one of the guns. Usually it's just a failure of the slide to stay in the back position after the last round is ejected (I'm sure I'm not using the proper term for this problem). I was told by the range officer that it's the result of the magazine needing to be cleaned. I never thought too much of it at the time.
A week ago I was the Eastpointe location shooting their Walther CCP. About every 3rd round was some kind of failure. Usually it was a failure of the new round to be chambered. Looked like this:
(I didn't take pictures at the time, but I've found some that closely mirror what was happening to me)
A few times there was a failure to eject the empty case. Looked pretty much like this:
Again I was told that the gun just needed to be cleaned, but none of the other rentals messed up like this, and I've probably tried a couple dozen different guns across various stores the last 2 months (which is why I concluded that Action Impact has the best price). The reloads that I had to buy for their rentals worked fine in the 4 or 5 other guns I tried that day at AI, which leads me to believe that it wasn't the ammo causing the problem. I also don't have any reason to doubt the quality of Walther's products.
Any input is appreciated.