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  • onedash

    Ultimate Member
    Feb 24, 2016
    1,026
    Calvert County
    So until recently I thought maybe I had a reloading issue. I had started running all my 45 brass through a bulge buster and still had the occasional issue where the slide didn't seem to want to go all the way home. Recently I was reading in one of the NRA Magazines that the 1911 should only be fed from the magazine. Light Bulb. That must be my problem. I haven't been to the range lately and most of the time I load from a magazine anyway but I am starting to think that dropping a single round in the chamber and sending the slide home might have been the issue. I had never heard that or was aware that you shouldn't feed your 1911 that way.
    I'm wondering if it says that in the owners manual somewhere.
    Am I the only one that didn't know that? You don't have to admit it if you didn't.
     

    iH8DemLibz

    When All Else Fails.
    Apr 1, 2013
    25,396
    Libtardistan
    I've never stuck a round in the chamber of a 1911 and slammed the slide home.

    Always fed from a magazine.

    It allows the base of the case/rim to pop up between the slide face and the extractor hook.

    Prolly not good for the extractor banging into it like you've been doing. It's forcing the extractor hook to jump over the case rim. Bad juju.
     

    John from MD

    American Patriot
    MDS Supporter
    May 12, 2005
    22,721
    Socialist State of Maryland
    1911 extractor will break if you keep dropping the slide on a chambered round. A properly tuned 1911 has the extractor tension adjusted so that the round feeds and extracts smoothly.
     

    BradMacc82

    Ultimate Member
    Industry Partner
    Aug 17, 2011
    26,177
    Why would you do that anyway? Not just a1911, but any pistol. That's a no no.

    Made more sense to single load into the chamber vs. racking the slide to go 1 in the pipe and then dropping and topping off the mag?

    I'll admit to being guilty of that, before I knew better. :o
     

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