1911Tuner
Moderator Emeritus
Okay gang...Let's troubleshoot one. Thinkin' caps on...One guess to a customer.
My ex-brother-in-law picked up a LNIB NRM Colt this past weekend.
The price was too ridiculous to pass up. He went to shoot it today
and there was a hitch in the gitalong. He knocked on my door with
the pistol still in the gitalong hitched condition and an expression of deep
concern on his cherubic face.
The slide had recoiled, extracted and ejected the spent case normally,
started to strip a fresh round and stopped about an inch and a half short of battery...and refused to move further.
It would move backward, but releasing it would stop it in the same place.
No matter how hard he pushed or whacked the back of the slide, it wouldn't budge.
It had happened once prior to the complete lockup, and he had gotten it goin' again by pulling the slide fully to the rear and letting it fly. The second
time, it was no go. (If I'd been a crooked so-and-so, I coulda bought the gun for even less than the ridiculous price that he paid for it. To say that
he was hot woulda been an uderstatement.)
The fix took 2 minutes and required replacing one inexpensive part. (It's usually somethin' simple)
What went wrong?
Luck!
Tuner
My ex-brother-in-law picked up a LNIB NRM Colt this past weekend.
The price was too ridiculous to pass up. He went to shoot it today
and there was a hitch in the gitalong. He knocked on my door with
the pistol still in the gitalong hitched condition and an expression of deep
concern on his cherubic face.
The slide had recoiled, extracted and ejected the spent case normally,
started to strip a fresh round and stopped about an inch and a half short of battery...and refused to move further.
It would move backward, but releasing it would stop it in the same place.
No matter how hard he pushed or whacked the back of the slide, it wouldn't budge.
It had happened once prior to the complete lockup, and he had gotten it goin' again by pulling the slide fully to the rear and letting it fly. The second
time, it was no go. (If I'd been a crooked so-and-so, I coulda bought the gun for even less than the ridiculous price that he paid for it. To say that
he was hot woulda been an uderstatement.)
The fix took 2 minutes and required replacing one inexpensive part. (It's usually somethin' simple)
What went wrong?
Luck!
Tuner