Originally Posted by
bkb0000
steel can soot up your chamber pretty good. a lot of people have problems with fails to extract after putting brass on top of steel. since you hadn't cleaned it at all, whatever steel that had been up there probably gummed it up enough to give you problems. in the future, keep it well loobed, keep loob out of the chamber as best you can, and if you have problems with stuck cases after shooting steel, just jam your chamber brush up in there and give it a quick scrub. no need to clean the whole gun for that, unless you want to.
if you find you're having stuck cases without shooting steel, or when the gun is clean, inspect your extractor and probably go ahead and replace your extractor spring.