FullEffect1911
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The other day i was shooting my Springfield 1911 and got a few failures to return to battery.
The rounds would not feed with a nudge/hit to the back of the slide and would feed instantly when I dropped the clip. After inspecting the cases there is a creasent shaped mark near the case mouth. I have determined from reading about such jams that this is indeed a 3 point jam. This jam only occured with the top round of a fully loaded mag and only when droping the slide with the slide release.
-Mags are good
-extractor was checked and cresent mark will still occur on brass without the extractor in place
-no discernable burrs on the feed ramp.
This leads me to believe that there is a lower lug issue or a link issue, however i am having a hard time figuring out what to do here.
I have to assume that it should feed without leaving a mark on the brass like that?
Any pictures on a proper fix/mod or instruction would be greatly appreciated.
FE1911
P.S. Also the brass seems to stike the top right of the ejection port and leave a brass mark just on the outside, what is going on with that?
P.S.S. I'm really considering just getting a stainless mil spec with the money from selling the fully loaded. Planned on replacing a lot of the internals anyway. sigh
The rounds would not feed with a nudge/hit to the back of the slide and would feed instantly when I dropped the clip. After inspecting the cases there is a creasent shaped mark near the case mouth. I have determined from reading about such jams that this is indeed a 3 point jam. This jam only occured with the top round of a fully loaded mag and only when droping the slide with the slide release.
-Mags are good
-extractor was checked and cresent mark will still occur on brass without the extractor in place
-no discernable burrs on the feed ramp.
This leads me to believe that there is a lower lug issue or a link issue, however i am having a hard time figuring out what to do here.
I have to assume that it should feed without leaving a mark on the brass like that?
Any pictures on a proper fix/mod or instruction would be greatly appreciated.
FE1911
P.S. Also the brass seems to stike the top right of the ejection port and leave a brass mark just on the outside, what is going on with that?
P.S.S. I'm really considering just getting a stainless mil spec with the money from selling the fully loaded. Planned on replacing a lot of the internals anyway. sigh