I am having a failure to extract/eject problem with my Colt Defender. It is dropping the spent cartridge about one third of the way out of the chamber. The slide is picking up the next round to load and then jamming it against the failed cartridge.
I’ve had this failure with both WWB 230gr. and Remington USB 230gr. I did not have the failure when I tried 40 rounds of S&B but that really didn’t prove anything because I’ve also experienced firing 40 – 60 rounds without failure with the other ammo and then it would start to jam every other round.
This gun is about 4 years old and has about 600 rounds through it. I did talk with Colt about it last week and they told me to send it in for an estimate of repair. Prior to doing this I would like to look at less costly alternatives.
I really think just replacing the extractor with a good quality hardened one would fix it. My problem is finding one. Brownells doesn’t list parts for Colt Defender on their website. Not that I could find anyway. When I spoke with Wilson Combat I was told their bulletproof extractor would not fit in a Defender.
I’ve read on some old threads on The High Road that some people have installed one of these bulletproof extractors in their Defenders. I do not have enough 1911 experience to know the cross compatibility between the different series of Colt for these parts.
Any help with this would be appreciated. I've also wondered about the plastic followers in the factory magazines. Other suggestions as to what else that might be causing this problem would also be appreciated.
I’ve had this failure with both WWB 230gr. and Remington USB 230gr. I did not have the failure when I tried 40 rounds of S&B but that really didn’t prove anything because I’ve also experienced firing 40 – 60 rounds without failure with the other ammo and then it would start to jam every other round.
This gun is about 4 years old and has about 600 rounds through it. I did talk with Colt about it last week and they told me to send it in for an estimate of repair. Prior to doing this I would like to look at less costly alternatives.
I really think just replacing the extractor with a good quality hardened one would fix it. My problem is finding one. Brownells doesn’t list parts for Colt Defender on their website. Not that I could find anyway. When I spoke with Wilson Combat I was told their bulletproof extractor would not fit in a Defender.
I’ve read on some old threads on The High Road that some people have installed one of these bulletproof extractors in their Defenders. I do not have enough 1911 experience to know the cross compatibility between the different series of Colt for these parts.
Any help with this would be appreciated. I've also wondered about the plastic followers in the factory magazines. Other suggestions as to what else that might be causing this problem would also be appreciated.