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Last week, I finally got myM50, after 14 months; nonstockingdealer, etc. Was looking forward to FA fire on the pistol range and seeing heads pop out of lane dividers. Instead, 2 rounds, jam. 3, jam. The most that would dump. was 5 rounds. I was firing reloads, 230 jacketed round nose, 5 grains of Buulseye. After reading paulfs excellent post, I polished the bolt, filed the firing pin, and stretched the magazine springs. The gun would jam because a cartridge would angle up from the mag but not feed completely. Bolt closed on the side of the cartridge. With a Christie 30r mag, pushing up on the mag helped reliability, but only if 20 or fewer rounds were loaded in the 30 r mag. After 120 rounds, the gun would switch from semi to fa by itself. Every NFA site warned that Reisings are unreliable. Thats a gross understatement. My hope was that since mine would only be fired under perfect conditions, it would work properly. Factory ammo was better but srill has issues. My plans are to polish the feedramp, replace mag and gun springs (Where can one get new springs.) Maybe load hotter ammo. Meanwhile my S & W 76 runs like a Swiss watch. The Reising was to have a cheap (by NFA standards) 45 acp shooter. Wish Id bought a Mac 10.