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jasmith85 · August 11, 2012, 07:36 PM

My brother gave me an older EAA Witness 45 that he got in a trade. It looks to be pretty well used and with all of the gunk it has build up in it I don't think the previous owner ever cleaned it. After giving it a quick cleaning, just basic field stripping and cleaning, I took it shooting. I put a box of rounds through it and in the middle of every magazine it would fail to chamber a round plus I could sometimes feel the gun jerk with the slide almost failing to chamber the round at other times. Pulling the slide back and dropping it was enough to make it chamber but I'm wondering what could be causing the problem. I'm taking care of the usual culprits. I just ordered a new slightly heavier recoil spring and a new magazine on midwayusa and I'm going to have a friend of mine that knows more about CZ75's and their clones detailed strip and clean it later this week. Is there anything else I should go ahead and get out of the way or have I covered all of my bases?

August 11, 2012, 07:36 PM	#1
jasmith85 Senior Member Join Date: April 6, 2012 Location: Tennessee Posts: 631	EAA Witness 45 failing to chamber My brother gave me an older EAA Witness 45 that he got in a trade. It looks to be pretty well used and with all of the gunk it has build up in it I don't think the previous owner ever cleaned it. After giving it a quick cleaning, just basic field stripping and cleaning, I took it shooting. I put a box of rounds through it and in the middle of every magazine it would fail to chamber a round plus I could sometimes feel the gun jerk with the slide almost failing to chamber the round at other times. Pulling the slide back and dropping it was enough to make it chamber but I'm wondering what could be causing the problem. I'm taking care of the usual culprits. I just ordered a new slightly heavier recoil spring and a new magazine on midwayusa and I'm going to have a friend of mine that knows more about CZ75's and their clones detailed strip and clean it later this week. Is there anything else I should go ahead and get out of the way or have I covered all of my bases?