Texasbagman
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Been awhile since I've been on here, good to see some folks are still around.
The issues:
Colt Combat Commander XSE NIB
I bought a commander last year and had some issue with failures to feed and lock the slide back after last round. I didn't mess with it much as I was rather busy through the fall with work and hunting.
The failures to feed would happen with any mag I had. Be it Wilsons or factory Colt or SA mags. The round would be a high angle feed jam with the pick up rail catching the cartridge in the middle of the case instead of the base. It didn't matter what round it was in the mag, in other words, it might be the second, or the fifth or anywhere. This would cause a jammed up round that would also be damaged.
And it would also fail to lock back about 50% of the time.
I started looking at it recently. By hand cycling the slide I found I was not getting full travel of the slide. It seemed to bind up and not come back full against the frame. I found the factory recoil spring to be out of shape thus it was not all going up into the spring end plug. It came from the factory with a full length guide rod.
I replaced the factory recoil spring with a Wilson 20# spring. It then got full travel, but still seemed rough. I fired about 100 rounds like this and it never jammed...except on the last round. Same high angle FTF. And it would NEVER lock the slide back.
So I order an Ed Brown standard guide rod and plug and get a Wolf 18# recoil spring. Install all of it. Very smooth and getting full travel.
Same failures, only less and more. It now locks the slide back about 80% of the time, but FTF the last round about 90%. The pickup rail is still catching the cartridge in the middle.
So I'm thinking maybe mag springs are weak, even though my Warrior and Milspec are very reliable with these mags. So I buy a new Wilson 7 rounder. Now locks back almost 100% but is now stovepiping the last loaded round. Swear on my pups rotten head, the rim of the cartridge will be hanging on the feed lips and the bullet sticking out the ejection port pointing up like a nice middle finger.
:banghead:
Sorry for the long post, hopefully someone here can bail me out. I would hate to admit defeat and take it to a smith.
The issues:
Colt Combat Commander XSE NIB
I bought a commander last year and had some issue with failures to feed and lock the slide back after last round. I didn't mess with it much as I was rather busy through the fall with work and hunting.
The failures to feed would happen with any mag I had. Be it Wilsons or factory Colt or SA mags. The round would be a high angle feed jam with the pick up rail catching the cartridge in the middle of the case instead of the base. It didn't matter what round it was in the mag, in other words, it might be the second, or the fifth or anywhere. This would cause a jammed up round that would also be damaged.
And it would also fail to lock back about 50% of the time.
I started looking at it recently. By hand cycling the slide I found I was not getting full travel of the slide. It seemed to bind up and not come back full against the frame. I found the factory recoil spring to be out of shape thus it was not all going up into the spring end plug. It came from the factory with a full length guide rod.
I replaced the factory recoil spring with a Wilson 20# spring. It then got full travel, but still seemed rough. I fired about 100 rounds like this and it never jammed...except on the last round. Same high angle FTF. And it would NEVER lock the slide back.
So I order an Ed Brown standard guide rod and plug and get a Wolf 18# recoil spring. Install all of it. Very smooth and getting full travel.
Same failures, only less and more. It now locks the slide back about 80% of the time, but FTF the last round about 90%. The pickup rail is still catching the cartridge in the middle.
So I'm thinking maybe mag springs are weak, even though my Warrior and Milspec are very reliable with these mags. So I buy a new Wilson 7 rounder. Now locks back almost 100% but is now stovepiping the last loaded round. Swear on my pups rotten head, the rim of the cartridge will be hanging on the feed lips and the bullet sticking out the ejection port pointing up like a nice middle finger.
:banghead:
Sorry for the long post, hopefully someone here can bail me out. I would hate to admit defeat and take it to a smith.