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Old September 30, 1999, 05:12 PM   #4
Cheapo
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So the ejector is losing the case--the empty is out there in the breeze and the slide is farther back trying to pick up the next round?

Ohboy, this could get tough long distance.

1. How do the loaded rounds chamber-check? Take barrel out, drop rounds in chamber. If they "clunk" all the way forward to headspace on the case mouth, and fall out freely when your turn the barrel's muzzle to the sky, don't worry about that bulge today.

2. How do the loaded rounds chamber? Following all standard safety procedures, put one round in a magazine and load the pistola. Slowly pull the slide back and look to see if the extractor starts out working properly, engaged in the extractor groove and all that.

Note--when the slide moves forward and stripsthe round from the mag, the head of the case should slide on the breechface, so what looks almost like a rim slips UNDER the extractor. If the round pops forward of the extractor, the "snap over the case" action into the extractor groove is only a follow-up/backup means of gettng the gun ready to fire.

3. Have any factory ammo to compare with? Okay, just re-read your stuff and factory goes out okay...See * below. I'm beginning to suspect a worn/ bent/ otherwise not quite right extractor. When properly installed, the extractor will actually hold the fired case on the breechface -- after the mouth clears the chamber -- until the ejector kicks it out. The usually even hold a live round that's being extracted--even with no magazine in and gravity tugging on the round...

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More favorable variables with new ammo _could_ leave that stuff less vulnerable to problems from a bum extractor. It should take a huge amount of resistance for the extractor to pull off of the rim...

[This message has been edited by Cheapo (edited October 01, 1999).]
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