Extractor Spring

My Stoeger Luger .22 will not work?

I just traded for a stoeger luger .22 with aluminum frame and 4.5 barrel. I spent the past three days working the pistol over, It got deburred and polished where it needed to be, I cleaned up the chamber and replaced the extractor spring, I got the action working very smoothly, the pistol will feed just fine if cycled by hand. Unfortunately when I took it out to the woods and tried to shoot it, it was an utter failure. I used a bulk pack of federal ammo. It would feed but not extract and half the time the rounds would not detonate, though the hammer spring is very crisp. The magazine is intact but worn. I will try some different ammo later today, but I do not have much hope. Does anyone have any ideas? This is a neat pistol but useless if it will not shoot.
Help!!!

I had an old German made Erma .22 Luger that I wound up trading. It only liked one brand of ammo and would not work with any other. The Luger action itself is bizarrely overcomplicated and prone to all kinds of issues. I’m amazed it took the Germans so long to replace theirs, with far superior actions (like John Browning’s designs) being proven decades before their adoption of the far superior Walther P38.

Anyway, I’m only a amateur when it comes to smithing, but your failure to fire and failure to extract problems leads me to suspect the bolt face is not making proper contact with the round in the chamber….that is, there is too much space between there. That was the problem with mine as I recall, although it been fifteen years or so.

Different ammo may have higher dimensional specs on the rim. Also, this could be a overly worn (or overly polished???) chamber/face. Also, are you sure the action is extending all the way down and forward? If it’s not, it would cause symptoms like this. Why did you replace the extractor spring? Can you put the old one back in and try it? Is it extracting when manually cycling it?

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