Posted: 5/16/2006 4:54:59 PM EDT
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Hello Gents. Just bought my first gun. Its a B.E. .45. I did alot of research short of firing every pistol I was interested and I just feel in love with the look, feel and reputation of the B.E. .45. After I finally got my hands on one and took her out to the range, I found a few problems. 1. Filling the magazine was tough, but it was easily overcome. Those last two rounds are tough, but when you put some weight into it you can get it in there. It toughens up your thumbs and index fingers. I'm too used to the easy M16A2 mags. 2. After shooting off a magazine I noticed I put a small scratch on the slide. I realized that this was caused by my wedding ring. This gun scratches very easily. So now when I shoot I shoot as if I were single. 3. Cleaning the pistol later I saw the same thing. This pistol's finish comes off very easily. Dont use your abrasive bore brush on anything but the bore. The inside of my pistol has lost some of its finish. I clean the outside with a soft brush or my General Purpose brush. 4. And this is the most troubling problem that I would like you guys to help me out with a solution to: I have shot off about 150 rounds and I have had 2 misfeeds and 1 smoke stack. It was a live round smoke stack not the empty shell. I have read before that this pistol is very picky about what kind of ammo it takes so I stayed away from the flat tip and hollow points. The ammo I am currently using is the gun range I go to's standard which might be the problem. Fiocchi 230 grain JHP. What should I do about this problem? New magazines? Different Ammo, if so what kinds? Send it back to the factory for repair? Aside from those problems the pistol's accuracy is excellent! The recoil isnt that bad, maintainance is easy, and groups are tight. My wife who was nervous at first ended up out shooting me in her last group. I have no qualms in admiting my wife is a superior PISTOL shooter than me. I have yet to intruduce her to the rifle which I hold the undisputed household title in. Well anyways would appreciate your help. Please feel free to email me or respond to this post. Thanks. |
| I had the same issue with misfeading on mine. It was usually the second to last bullet in the mag. Tried multiple mags and it still did the same thing. It happened about 2-4 times out of 100. The range officer told me it was limp-wristing but I don't think that was the issue. Unfortunately I never remedied the problem. I sold mine at the gun show and bought a glock for a CCW. I did love my BE and plan on getting another one soon. I talked to a gunsmith and he said he would try to polish the fead ramp but I never got around to doing that. I would like to know if someone has found asolution to this also. |
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I bought my first 1911 many years ago; it was a WWII model, shipped to China, then returned when Reagan enabled the return. I had similar problems. I simply removed the bbl, and polished the feed ramp with a Dremel polishing tool (the one shapelike the Apollo command_service module). I also polished the back of the chamber, the part where the base of the bullet rides past the firing pin. Worked well, and the gun has had NO FF or stovepipes or other such malfs since!!! |
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Sounds like that is going to be the case. The man at the gun store said to do that. But what do these people who claim to have put 5000 rounds through their gun without a single misfire? Are they full of pooh? What kind of ammo or extra preventive maintainance do they do? |