Posted: 1/23/2010 8:16:37 PM EDT
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I just purchased a brand new SA 1911 loaded black stainless. I could not be more excited, she's a beauty. I get it home load up some nice hornady TAP ammo. cock the reciever and she does not feed, she jams! now i'm pissed. If i grab the reciever and pull it back a second time the bolt finally grabs the shell and sends it through. After playing with it and trying some things i have found out it only does that with a full mag. 6 shells and below it feeds normally. This leads me to believe that the spring inside the magazines are new and still pretty stiff. But i paid almost 1000 dollars for this gun and for the very first time i try to use it it does this is very bad. I have still yet to shoot a single round through the gun. This situation has me very disheartened. Has anyone out there heard of or ran into this before? Does Springfield sell these loaded 1911's with crap magazine's? Not sure what to do. Help me out fella's.
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Take it out and shoot a couple hundred rounds of BALL through it first. Next, not every 1911 will like every HP round. Some will feed anything, some don't like Golden Saber, some don't like TAP, some don't like others. Magazines are the next likely culprit, but you are not there yet. -Corn |
| I appreciate the input. I've been conducting some of my own research and what i have come to find out is that the feed ramp will cause feed problems with ceratin types of HP'S. it seems the round people are having the most trouble with are the exact rounds i'm using. Hornady TAP'S. My Sig 220 eats them with no problem. But this is mt first 1911 and i'm still learning. I'll stick with the 203gr. ball ammo for now. But in the future i would like something more menacing for self and home defence. |
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I appreciate the input. I've been conducting some of my own research and what i have come to find out is that the feed ramp will cause feed problems with ceratin types of HP'S. it seems the round people are having the most trouble with are the exact rounds i'm using. Hornady TAP'S. My Sig 220 eats them with no problem. But this is mt first 1911 and i'm still learning. I'll stick with the 203gr. ball ammo for now. But in the future i would like something more menacing for self and home defence. Just my .02, but the .45 ACP 230 gr. round is a good defense round. More menacing ammo is likely more in your mind that what is truly needed, and if worse came to worse, before a jury, more "menacing" ammo would likely be viewed poorly. Enjoy your pistol! Ed |
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I appreciate the input. I've been conducting some of my own research and what i have come to find out is that the feed ramp will cause feed problems with ceratin types of HP'S. it seems the round people are having the most trouble with are the exact rounds i'm using. Hornady TAP'S. My Sig 220 eats them with no problem. But this is mt first 1911 and i'm still learning. I'll stick with the 203gr. ball ammo for now. But in the future i would like something more menacing for self and home defence. Just my .02, but the .45 ACP 230 gr. round is a good defense round. More menacing ammo is likely more in your mind that what is truly needed, and if worse came to worse, before a jury, more "menacing" ammo would likely be viewed poorly. Enjoy your pistol! Ed That old school ball ammo fucked up many a guy that was unlucky enough to face a pissed off GI armed with a .45. 
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