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Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

I just started shooting my newly purchased Belgium sweet 16 and every time I fire the shell stays in the chamber and have to be manually ejected.

I’m not the most experienced with these guns but I know a little and I’m sure I have the rings set up correctly. Pushing the barrel down to change the rings is hard, much more difficult than my previous sweet. I figured it might need lubricated. May this be the problem and if so what product would you recommend? I don’t want to gunk it up.

Joined: 26 Apr 2016 Posts: 369 Location: Vermont

Plenty of diagrams on the web, shouldn't be that hard pushing the barrel down. I am assuming you are pushing the barrel down to remove the forend and barrel for changing.

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Sweet- are the springs new, if not do yourself a favor and replace the recoil spring and action spring. Make sure you use 30 weight oil on magazine tube. Just a tad. Don’t take much. Inspect extractors on breech block( bolt). One may be rounded/ broken if it’s an older one or if shot a bunch. Had that issue on last sweet 16 I got. If you have one of the fired shells you can look at the rim and see if the extractor is being pulled over it or actually grabbing it. Make sure you remove the breech block and inspect the springs (stiffness) for the extractors. The extractor should have a sharp edge. You can even put a shell on bolt face with bolt out of gun to see what’s going on. If you download the owners manual there are some instructions on this

Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Does spring slide freely on mag tube? Some people get 20 gauge springs from some places that say they fit 16/20. Not the case. There is a difference.

Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

without seeing it, its hard to tell. do you have another 16? if so swap out recoil spring and see if you have same problem. does bolt lock to the rear when pushing on barrel? new springs are pretty stiff. does the bolt lock to the rear with charge handle? I recently had a light 12 that I could not push barrel down and it was the action spring all gummed up. probably the most neglected spring and cleaning area.

Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Straight 30 weight. Put some on your finger and wipe on tube. Slightly wipe off. It’s good to go. It will appear to be sticky. That’s fine. And be safe with that no sleep thing.

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

One other thing that caused me ejection issues on my 1909 for about a week was the friction spring was worn out. That’s the black ring that goes around the bronze piece. It was not tight enough and not clamping the bronze piece tight enough. There is nothing that I have seen in writing about the gaps, but I always put them 180 out from each other.

Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Welcome. Keep me posted.

Joined: 17 Jul 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Illinois

Joined: 21 Mar 2019 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Sweet- glad to hear that sir. Nothing like a sweet sixteen. Guess J Browning knew a little something. I wish browning would have kept the same design in the new A5.