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Posted: January 26th, 2008, 2:07 pm
OK guys, my p-64 is working so well that there is not much to say about it, but I do have another mystery on my hands. Since I heard some of you talking about a .45, I thought I would share my puzzle with you.
I have a Rock Island 1911 .45 (In part because I was talked into it by members of this board about two years ago.)
I LOVE it. It is a great pistol for the price. Shoots well and functions great, with one exception. Sometimes--not always--the last round in the magazine will not chamber.
No problem. I kept shooting until it broke in, and it got better, but this problem remained.
I bought a new Novacs mag, thinking that the spring might be weak. No fix.
I thought I might be seating my bullets a little too far out and causing it to jam, so I adjusted them a bit. All of these things seemed to make a difference, but nothing solved it.
Just the other day I was at the range, shooting some of my first cast bullets through it (thank you very much!) and on one occasion, I fired the second last bullet, and the last cartridge popped right out of the pistol and landed on the bench.
This makes me think that the cartridge has not been "jamming" at all, but that the cartridge is actually popping out of the magazine, and then not chambering. (The extractor on a 1911 will not "jump" over the rim as in other pistols.)
Any thoughts? Any of you encounter this before? Most importantly, any ideas on how to deal with it?
God bless and straight shooting,
-Kempin
I have a Rock Island 1911 .45 (In part because I was talked into it by members of this board about two years ago.)
I LOVE it. It is a great pistol for the price. Shoots well and functions great, with one exception. Sometimes--not always--the last round in the magazine will not chamber.
No problem. I kept shooting until it broke in, and it got better, but this problem remained.
I bought a new Novacs mag, thinking that the spring might be weak. No fix.
I thought I might be seating my bullets a little too far out and causing it to jam, so I adjusted them a bit. All of these things seemed to make a difference, but nothing solved it.
Just the other day I was at the range, shooting some of my first cast bullets through it (thank you very much!) and on one occasion, I fired the second last bullet, and the last cartridge popped right out of the pistol and landed on the bench.
This makes me think that the cartridge has not been "jamming" at all, but that the cartridge is actually popping out of the magazine, and then not chambering. (The extractor on a 1911 will not "jump" over the rim as in other pistols.)
Any thoughts? Any of you encounter this before? Most importantly, any ideas on how to deal with it?
God bless and straight shooting,
-Kempin