Posted: 8/22/2016 10:21:51 PM EDT
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About a year ago I bought a brand new Colt Wiley Clapp Government from a dealer on Gunbroker. The day I received it I took it to the range and shot it. The gun fed and fired fine, but every casing it ejected hit me right between the eyes. I tried several types of mags and ammo, same problem.
I called Colt. They had me send it in. They "fixed" it and also installed my magwell and standard grips for free. That was great, thanks Colt. But when I got it back it had the same ejection issues. Now only about 1/3 of the brass hits me in the face. One even went in my mouth. I've never burned my tongue on brass before. Guess I shouldn't talk (swear) and shoot at the same time. So I called Colt and they took it back a second time. I just got it back on Saturday and shot it that afternoon. Same problem. About 1/3 of the brass goes right in my eyes. Its not me, I'm not limp wristing it or anything. I have 4 other 1911's and they all shoot and eject great. Its not the mags or the ammo. I've tried multiple types of both and they all do it. Its the gun. Its has brass kisses on the top of the slide in front if the ejection port, so brass is bouncing off somehow. How do I fix this? Call Colt again? Send it back for a third time? |
| Well from what you are posting maybe 3rd time around will totally resolve your issue. Now I don't have a Colt 1911 because at the time I could afford a Remington R1 which shoots great yet always locks the slide back on the last round with one Mag. From my research I just need to file down the part that hits the mag just a tad. I haven't had time to do it yet although plan to before I take it out shooting again. Most of the 100 rounds I shot out if it were where I expected them yet I did have a few there were more directly up than to the right. Had a surprise a few times when I sat back more in my wheelchair that I use when I go out for some hot spent rounds. Not sure if they went high or just bounced off the side wall. I wasn't paying attention more just having fun getting back into shooting after 12+ years. I know what I need to work on which is not jerking down when I pull the trigger yet working on getting back into shooting. Just got to quit anticipating that recoil and just shoot like I used to. Damn how time fucks you up on shooting. Nothing like riding a bike. |
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I bought a Colt LW XSE 45ACP Commander a couple of years ago. It was very finicky about what ammo would feed reliably. A couple of months ago I got tired of this issue and started to look for the reason of the feed problems. I came across a couple of You tube videos, one by STI and the other from Wilson Combat about diagnosing extractor problems. The extractor had very little tension and the lip on the extractor was too long and not landing on the shell in the correct position. So I filed a very small amount off the extractor lip until it was hitting the case in the correct spot. Then I added more tension to the extractor until it held a loaded cartridge flat on the bolt face. I took it to the range and it fired 8 mags of 230gr Federal HST HPs without any failures to feed or extract. I tried 4 different brands of mags and they all work without failures. I have a STI Ranger II that had the same problem and did the same adjustments and it cured the feed problems with that one also. The STI video says you only need to adjust tension if your having double feeds or extraction problems. But I cured both of my 1911s of feed problems with FMJ and HPs. Here's the links to the videos that I used to fix my 1911s. YMMV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-XoJVNAo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorzFGvYj40 |
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Go over to 1911forum.com and send a PM to BJT72. The gentleman's name is Brent, and he is in charge of Colt's Custom Shop. He is known on that forum as a stand-up individual who comes through for people in cases like this.
If his inbox is full, then create a thread in the Colt subforum stating that. He's Colt's unofficial rep there. |
