Quote Originally Posted by Eville View Post
Made it out to the range yesterday with the pistols, ARs, Mosin and Garand. Didn't do anything serious, just some light paper punching. We go to a state owned DNR range, which takes a lot of the fun out of it. Can only shoot paper targets, can't shoot from closer than 25 yards, etc. Its great if you are trying to sight in a scope or experimenting with loads, but that's about it. I also kept having problems all day, probably due to the humidity. The firing lines are covered, but it was still raining pretty steadily. My AR kept failing to strip rounds out of the magazine and a few failures to eject. My 1911 kept failing to feed all the way. It would get stuck with the slide about 2mm back. The Garand did great with the Atomic ammo, but had the same issue as the 1911 with PMC. Still a decent day though.

I meant to ask you earlier about your 1911 but forgot. I had feed issues with my 1911 similar to what you describe above. When it happened, I would just pull the slide back a fraction and the round would feed. My 1911 is a Para Ordnance GI Expert. If you have the same handgun, contact Para Ordnance. I did and they had me send it in for warranty work. The extractor was replaced and something with the firing pin assembly (I forget what now, this was like, last April). The gun works perfectly now.

FWIW, I only had the feed issues with factory "ball" ammo. I buy a lot of reloaded ammo that uses semi wad cutter leads and those fed perfectly. Since the repair, I bought 500 rounds of ball reloads and haven't had a single feed issues.