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RottenApple wrote:I'm no smith, but that almost looks like an extractor issue. It appears like the next round is pushing the spent casing out through the top instead of the extractor grabbing & spinning it out to the right. Just my 2¢ observation.

I shot a couple of IDPA matches with the ejector on my 1911 completely gone, and all I really noticed was that the cases were just kind of popping out of the slide and dropping.


I wonder if the new flat spring has a different rate than the old round one, improving ejection.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

mrvmax wrote:Limp wristing is the most common cause I have seen for failures. It could be a plethora of other things but I would try a firmer grip first.

It is my opinion that the basic design of the P238 is particularly sensitive to limp-wristing, whether it is a Sig P238 or a Colt Pocketlite Mustang (they are essentially the same gun). I have an older (1985 vintage) Colt Government .380 which has an all steel frame and weighs considerably more than either the P238 or the Pocketlite, and it is sensitive to limp-wristing too.

Yes, you are depending on the recoil operation to cycle the slide, from a relatively wimpy 9mm short round. Even a little bit of limp wrist will cause failure to eject and a smokestack. I was videoing my wife shooting her new 238 a while back, and she swore she was not limping it, but when we played back the video you could see the difference quite clearly. I think the problem in her case was that as soon as the trigger broke she was relaxing her whole hand, not just the trigger finger. A little dry fire practice seems to have made a great deal of difference.