I'm having a recurring failure to eject problem in my kimber eclipse custom II. I've searched online, but my malfunction seems to be just a little different from the usual FTE in that it always happens when there is one round left in the magazine.
The spent casing will get stuck between the barrel hood and breech face (see picture). The starnge thing is this malfunction ALWAYS happens when there is one round remaining in the magazine...never in any other situation. It looks like the spent case has actually slid up the breech face to a position where the ejector barely contacts it.
- This malfunction just recently started happeneing, now I get it every 15 rounds or so
- Pistol is about 5000 rounds old
- Magazines are Wilson Combat. Springs and followers are new, but it happened with the old springs too. I have 6 magazines and it happens with all of them.
- Recoil spring is a new Wolff 16#; I've also tried it with a wilson combat 17#
- Extractor tension seems to be fine...a loaded round is held firmly in place against the breech face and resists shaking
- I've had this happens with several different types of ammo including winchester factory hardball, but it does seem to be more frequent with my 200 gr SWC reloads (although it never happened with the first 4000 rounds through the pistol) any help would be appreciated
The spent casing will get stuck between the barrel hood and breech face (see picture). The starnge thing is this malfunction ALWAYS happens when there is one round remaining in the magazine...never in any other situation. It looks like the spent case has actually slid up the breech face to a position where the ejector barely contacts it.
- This malfunction just recently started happeneing, now I get it every 15 rounds or so
- Pistol is about 5000 rounds old
- Magazines are Wilson Combat. Springs and followers are new, but it happened with the old springs too. I have 6 magazines and it happens with all of them.
- Recoil spring is a new Wolff 16#; I've also tried it with a wilson combat 17#
- Extractor tension seems to be fine...a loaded round is held firmly in place against the breech face and resists shaking
- I've had this happens with several different types of ammo including winchester factory hardball, but it does seem to be more frequent with my 200 gr SWC reloads (although it never happened with the first 4000 rounds through the pistol) any help would be appreciated