1911GI has begun to eject in my face at near speed of light

Daywalker · May 13, 2011

I am thinking extractor tension is to tight.
I also have read to cut a radius on bottom of the extractor?

Jefpainthorse · May 14, 2011

"All the sudden"?

When ever you get a "all the sudden" change in performance look at the last thing you changed first.

New lot of ammo?

Did you change an extractor or ejector? Are they fitted up right,,, and tuned to work in your slide and frame?

Has the ejector worked loose or is it staked in place correctly?

Maybe your grip has devolved into limp wristing?

Are you showing "brassing" around the ejector port?

Are your cases bending or getting weird marks or scrapes?

How many rounds have you put through the gun?

Any thing causing the action to work slow or out of sync? (all the mag springs and recoil springs are good?)

Dirty chamber slowing down the ejection cycle as the cases are sticking a little bit?

Daywalker · May 14, 2011

Are you showing "brassing" around the ejector port?

Are your cases bending or getting weird marks or scrapes?

Yes and yes 1200-1500 rounds

No to all the rest.

Swap slides to spare and it went away.

Extractor is so tight with slide off have to push hard to set a empty behind it

Daywalker · May 14, 2011

Got hit so hard cut bridge of my nose open right over glasses

honeybee · May 14, 2011

Bad extrator spring! Don't reshape your extractor unless you know what you are doing. I have to undo a lot of customer repairs before doing it right.

When you order a new spring get a new extractor to go along with it.

mike cyrwus · May 15, 2011

uhhhh... :mellow:

Don knows guns, he must have forgotten its a 1911.

Daywalker · May 15, 2011

mike cyrwus said:
uhhhh... :mellow:

Don knows guns, he must have forgotten its a 1911.

With second slide working I am thinking extractor. Is really odd to me that it got tight over time not loose...

honeybee · May 15, 2011

Well, OOPS he did say it was a GI

but in all fairness almost all external extractors are spring loaded.

Have you removed it and looked for a buildup of crud?

Daywalker · May 16, 2011

Franson Firearms said:
Well, OOPS he did say it was a GI

but in all fairness almost all external extractors are spring loaded.

Have you removed it and looked for a buildup of crud?

....it is not external.

Yeah I pull it to clean after every trip to range

honeybee · May 16, 2011

A new extractor costs about $15 through gunparts.com, thats less than a trip to the gunsmith.

Daywalker · May 16, 2011

Franson Firearms said:
A new extractor costs about $15 through gunparts.com, thats less than a trip to the gunsmith.

Got one but it still needs to be tuned I found an article Wilson wrote on how to tune it. His came with radius cut already.
I cut my old one to match for a spare.