by jimbojr85 » Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:34 pm
I know this is an older topic and I hope you still like your gun, but as a new member here (but longtime shooter) I have been going back and looking at some of the older threads.
One thing that caught my attention was that you were (judging by how you described it) getting pinged by brass on your head and neck, and may have had a few failures to feed.
The failures to feed, and getting pinged by the brass, may be related issues caused by having a weak grip on the gun. Not to say that you are weak, but many people hold a gun in different ways, and what a lot of people might not realize is that when you fire a recoil-operated handgun like the SCCY, it must have something to kick back against, and that is usually the firer's hand and wrist - which is why a proper grip on the gun is so important for proper functioning.
When I shoot my CPX-2 it tends to eject cases with quite a bit of authority, usually about a dozen feet to the right, with some landing more to the front and others landing more to the back. However, when my daughter shoots it, it doesn't eject the brass as forcefully - and occasionally she gets pinged by the brass and sometimes it lands on her head.
Same exact gun, same exact ammunition, but two totally different ejection patterns, and that is because we hold it differently. She doesn't have the hand and arm strength that I do. For further illustration, her boyfriend is a lot younger and stronger than me, and when he shoots it it throws the spent brass even farther.
So far the SCCY has functioned for my daughter, but if she were to continue shooting it as her arm and hand tired, it would eventually fail to extract or feed. This is one reason double-action revolvers remain popular, they function as long as the shooter can hold onto the gun and pull the trigger all the way.
Whether a person is a smaller shooter and needs to exercise their grip to strengthen their hand and forearm, or a larger, stronger person who needs merely to obtain a tighter hold on the handgrip, it is important to have a strong grip on the gun to give it something to kick back against.
Welcome to the world of gun ownership! Now practice, practice, practice!