New Nano Issue Need Some Help

My new Nano worked flawlessly with the first magazine that I ran through it. Same thing with the second magazine until the fourth round. Just click, no bang. Thought it was the ammo but the same thing happened on the next 6 rounds I tried. I compared the primer indentations between the fired shells and the no bang rounds. The no bang rounds have a very noticeably lighter indent. Any ideas to where I should start to fix the striker issue or should I call Beretta? This is my first striker pistol so I'm not familiar with its internal workings. Thanks.

Did you clean the gun before using it, especially the striker channel? New guns are sometimes loaded with extra grease to keep things from rusting while in storage at a gun shop, etc. I would completely field strip it and clean the crap out of it first and retry.

That's my thought. I cleaned the gun before first use, but it looks like I over lubricated the striker assembly. Appears to be very wet. Was thinking that I might soak the slide in denatured alcohol since I can't find any info for disassembling the striker. Would like to be able to break it down completely and clean out thoroughly.

hold on there
never hears of using alcohol
get on youtube and search for a video on dissassembling and cleaning

Did you try different ammo? What ammo were you using?

Black Hills 124gr JHP +P. Haven't tried anything else yet due to the noticeable difference in the primer strikes.

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Originally Posted by hideit

hold on there
never hears of using alcohol
get on youtube and search for a video on dissassembling and cleaning

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Thanks going to hold of on the alcohol. Viewed a couple of videos and am going to try to disassemble and clean.

Ran gun scrub through both ends of both ends of the striker since I had little time. Tried shooting again and it shot flawlessly. Will be disassembling the slide for further cleaning. Learning is fun. Thanks to all I'm smiling again.

Try and stay away from shooting +p ammo with the nano unless its self defense. It wears the gun faster. I have one myself and love it. Have over 200 rounds through it with only one FTE which I think was because of the cheap ammo and limp wristing.