I will not name the company who made the gun . I am not looking to trash talk a company. I just wanted to relate the issues and see what our local experts think.
I have a great( or it was anyway) semi custom compact 45 acp 1911. shot only 600 rounds due to my hand surgery(not shot since April 2018). shot 100 flawless rounds yesterday and went home to field strip , clean and lube it. Noticed the slide binding when I took it down.
contacted the maker. It wa s suggeste d that maybe the ejector moved a bit. ha d me tap it down. It was still binding. Actually seemed worse .Had me detail strip the gun( yeah I did it again--so proud) . nothing seemed wrong . no huge amount of debris. a bit of powder and oil. cleaned and reassembled it. frame( action) worked fine. slid e was binding more than ever. Also firing pin stop could not be removed and seemed to be a bit low in location. Had to use s o much force( by hand) to get the gun reassembled it was unreal. tried to move the slide rearward with a lot of force and hammer went into a horizontal position. probably the hammer hooks grabbed something. worked that out and back into position. action works fine. slide can barely budge.
even the maker is stumped. we are hoping it is a faulty ejector. if so..then why now?
what do you think is causing the binding of the slide?
thanks in advance for your thoughts
I have a great( or it was anyway) semi custom compact 45 acp 1911. shot only 600 rounds due to my hand surgery(not shot since April 2018). shot 100 flawless rounds yesterday and went home to field strip , clean and lube it. Noticed the slide binding when I took it down.
contacted the maker. It wa s suggeste d that maybe the ejector moved a bit. ha d me tap it down. It was still binding. Actually seemed worse .Had me detail strip the gun( yeah I did it again--so proud) . nothing seemed wrong . no huge amount of debris. a bit of powder and oil. cleaned and reassembled it. frame( action) worked fine. slid e was binding more than ever. Also firing pin stop could not be removed and seemed to be a bit low in location. Had to use s o much force( by hand) to get the gun reassembled it was unreal. tried to move the slide rearward with a lot of force and hammer went into a horizontal position. probably the hammer hooks grabbed something. worked that out and back into position. action works fine. slide can barely budge.
even the maker is stumped. we are hoping it is a faulty ejector. if so..then why now?
what do you think is causing the binding of the slide?
thanks in advance for your thoughts
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