Posted: 1/22/2007 10:59:57 PM EDT
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I was playing with my SA the other day and had something interesting happen that I had never seen/experienced before. I was racking the slide back to check the chamber with my trigger finger alongside the frame (By the book of course  ).I pulled the slide back at a moderate pace and all the sudden it stuck!! Wouldn't move forward or back. I got puzzled for a sec until I saw the slide stop was partially pushed out. After a few trials, I realized, with my hand size, when my finger is along side the frame, it pushes on the other side of the slide stop. This "can" force it out when racking the slide as the takedown notch is in the proper position. I thought it was strange I'd never had this before. Is this common? I doubt there is anything I can do to correct it.... Just odd after so many rounds with that gun, I've never had it do that until now. Gundraw |
| you can "fix" this by pulling the detent spring a little longer (carefully) to add tension also can add a little more dip to the detent space on the slide stop I had this problem with a wilson I added and I cut the detent slot a little deeper and wider but you have to be carefull as you can make it too much and thenits hell to get out |
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Although I don't have a whole lot of experience with 1911s, I think it is fairly common. I read about it as a quick way to take down a 1911 several years ago, works pretty well on my guns. Obviously, I don't go pushing on it when I'm just wanting to rack the slide. ETA I've never had it happen by accident, it takes a little pressure to do. |
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Never noticed that before on custom rigs, but now that I see it, that makes perfect sense. You would think it would take a lot of pressure, but especially if I have the gun a little on it's side to rack it, the front weight of the gun rests on the trigger finger a little while I rack the slide. It's pretty easy to do on my gun. I might try the detent fix. If that doesn't work, it sounds like there are other solutions if I find it develops into a regular problem, but I don't think it will. Gundraw |
) to keep it from happening.
Nice 1911, one question tho if possible, is the slidestop end beveled and if so, how much of the framehole touches the stop on the right side of the pistol? Looks as if a good 50% of the right side of the slidestop hole on the frame touches the slidestop proper? Just curious as it well could be a optical illusion. |
Imagine this happened to you during the heat of a self defense situation. This is why all my carry 1911’s have the slide stop ground off till it's flush with the frame. I do this at home with a simple bench grinder. I don't countersink the hole and just lightly chamfer the end of the slide stop and have not problem with assembly or disassembly. Interestingly, other manufactures of auto pistols that use the slide stop as the take down devise (i.e. S&W auto's) the slide stop hole is chamfered and the slide stop does not protrude beyond the frame. |
This exact same thing happened to me. Took me a few seconds to figure it out. With my bigger hands, my thumb sits right on "the button". I've learned to move my thumb since then, but it sure did startle me. |