Does your M41 do this, too?

[fourarmed]

When the frame on my old HS Victor started cracking in the third location a couple of years ago, I bought a new 41. I mounted an Ultradot sight and Fung grips, and made it my bullseye gun.

I have generally been happy with it, but it has one quirk that is driving me crazy. More often than not, the first round of slow fire goes in the five-ring at 1:00, and the hole is noticeably elongated, indicating that the bullet is tipping. This is with CCI SV ammo, and occurs even though I break the shot in the black. It only occurs with the first shot. After that, everything is normal. For a while, I tried to convince myself that I was causing it by flinching, but I don't think even I can flinch enough to cause keyholing, and I almost certainly flinch more than once.

I haven't yet designed an experiment to see if cleaning, lubrication, disassembly and reassembly, or the way I hold my mouth has any effect on this problem. I thought I first would ask around if anyone else had one that does this.

[4barrel]

Try dropping 1/2 drop of oil on the tip of the first bullet--has not happened to me but I know shooters that do it. It don't seem to happen with hv ammo. Lots of 41s will stove pipe with sv but it groups better. It seems to do with the grip you hold. My buddy can rest his 41 & it does this sometimes but offhand no problems