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I bought a 1922 last week and have some questions.
1. Slide will not lock back manually (I realize it does not lock back on the last round). This is what I cannot do:
(Photo courtesy of Walkalong)
When I try this with mine, the safety pops out of that second slot and the slide jumps back into battery.
2. When I disassembled mine, Parts 21 and 22 (signal pin and spring) shown below were not in my gun:
(oops, this image must be a 1910. Dave DeLaurant provides the correct image in the next post)
The gun fires fine as I ran 80 rounds through it. All cases eject too. My only problem was a lot of misfeeds, which the guy at the GS attributed to needing a hotter ammo and in LRN. I did not lose the signal pin and spring in the disassembly as I had dry fired the gun (with a snap cap in it) so it was not cocked and had my hand in place to catch it if it were to pop out, which it did not.
So it seems the gun runs fine without the signal pin and signal pin spring, so why bother obtaining one?
3. I am told that one should not dry fire this gun as it can damage the firing pin. Is that true?
Consider that the firing pin is extra long and is used to eject empty cases as the slide slams to the back. If that isn't harder on the pin than dry firing, what would be? So it seems to me that dry firing should not be an issue because if the pin is going to break, it will break regardless of dry fire because of the ejection feature of the pin, no? But to purchase a spare firing pin just in case is not a bad idea either.
Any thoughts or advice?
1. Slide will not lock back manually (I realize it does not lock back on the last round). This is what I cannot do:
When I try this with mine, the safety pops out of that second slot and the slide jumps back into battery.
2. When I disassembled mine, Parts 21 and 22 (signal pin and spring) shown below were not in my gun:
(oops, this image must be a 1910. Dave DeLaurant provides the correct image in the next post)
The gun fires fine as I ran 80 rounds through it. All cases eject too. My only problem was a lot of misfeeds, which the guy at the GS attributed to needing a hotter ammo and in LRN. I did not lose the signal pin and spring in the disassembly as I had dry fired the gun (with a snap cap in it) so it was not cocked and had my hand in place to catch it if it were to pop out, which it did not.
So it seems the gun runs fine without the signal pin and signal pin spring, so why bother obtaining one?
3. I am told that one should not dry fire this gun as it can damage the firing pin. Is that true?
Consider that the firing pin is extra long and is used to eject empty cases as the slide slams to the back. If that isn't harder on the pin than dry firing, what would be? So it seems to me that dry firing should not be an issue because if the pin is going to break, it will break regardless of dry fire because of the ejection feature of the pin, no? But to purchase a spare firing pin just in case is not a bad idea either.
Any thoughts or advice?
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