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> Can anyone explain (guess?) how you can get a baglock on a reserve freebag ?

Well -

You can get an out-of-sequence deployment of the reserve (say, a loose freebag and a hesitation of a reserve PC allows the bag to pop out first) that allows reserve lines to loop around the top of the freebag. This can lock the mouth of the bag closed and not allow the reserve out even if the locking stows clear.

A line half-hitched around a locking stow would do it. Those stows don't break. Very long locking stows and back-to-earth openings can increase the odds of this happening.

A momentary reserve-PC horseshoe can cause a baglock if the bag twists at the end of the bridle a few times.

You can intentionally cause one pretty easily; there are a lot of ways to do that. I have no idea if that happened in this case.

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The container this happend on was a Javelin. I have a container waiting for canopies and when I felt how easy the reserve PC was to compress I was quite shocked. Could a stronger reserve PC spring help prevent baglock? Are all reserve PC springs similar to the Javelins?

Edit to add: Does this mean reserves that are tighter in the tray have a lower likelyhood of bag lock since greater force will be required to extract them from the container?
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I'm hesitant to answer your question since I'm not a rigger but since no one else is answering it, I'll give it a shot. Riggers please correct me if I'm wrong.

The spring on the reserve pilot chute of a javelin is not very strong basically because it doesn't need to be. It's mostly a pop-top so it only needs to push through 2 small flaps. A non pop top container, like a vector or mirage would need a stronger spring because it has to push through more flaps.

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