megatronrules
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I had my 1933 colt 1911 out at the range today and had one failure to extract in 50 rounds. The way this happened was there was an empty casing left in the chamber and the one that was feeding out of the mag jammed the gun. I dropped the mag and pulled the rim of the case with my finger nail and it fell out of the chamber. This was the the first and only time this has happened with this gun in about 200 rounds I have through it,I was using S&B 230 grain FMJ ammo when this happened fwiw. So what do you think is wrong if anything? I don't think its my extractor's tention as this hasen't happened before someone over at 1911forum suggested my extractor was "clocking" So I got an ed brown firing pin stop to replace the old one it had,do you think this will help cure this problem tuner? I was going to go with an egw oversized stop but brownells was back ordered on both so I got the Ed brown (it said the EB one was made to maximum factory specs for a tight fit is this EB's way of calling it oversized?) one it does seem to fit a bit tighter the one that was on there. BTW this only happened with one specific magazine,it stopped and only did it again when I used this same magazine again. Tuner could a magazine aggravate an extractor into clocking?
I also did an extractor tention test with the slide off of the frame I put a live round up under the extractor hook and it held it when wiggled in a few directions without droping it. the round also moved around a bit but not enough to fall out does this mean my extractor's tention is ok? thanks for any help tuner.
I also did an extractor tention test with the slide off of the frame I put a live round up under the extractor hook and it held it when wiggled in a few directions without droping it. the round also moved around a bit but not enough to fall out does this mean my extractor's tention is ok? thanks for any help tuner.