Just home from range day #2 with the newly repaired RIA 1911 in 9mm.
Today I gave it 150 rounds of Fiocchi 115 grain fmj ammo. I had even more failures to feed than I did yesterday: three today. I got phone pics, not sure why I bothered.
I also gave the Springfield 1911 .45 some rounds. I have now experienced a failure to fire! My first one. Oh, joy! Can you feel the sarcasm?? I had just let a young man shoot the .45 and he loved it, and I had talked the woman they were with into shooting it. She pulled the trigger and nothing happened, so I tried it, and nothing happened. I let the magazine out, racked the slide and a round fell out. Wow! It fired the next round just fine, but was too much for her to handle. I think she was a new shooter. Give her a few months and she'll be shooting a .45 just fine! LOL.
In the interests of thoroughness in our troubleshooting tomorrow, I bought two boxes of 9mm at the range, 124 grain in two different brands. I stopped by Defender Ammo and got a box of 147 grain new fmj. I also stopped by and saw Billy's old buddy Phil at Mid South, and got yet another brand of 147 grain ammo. This will bring the total brand count up to six, and the varying grains up to three different weights. Not sure what else to do.
We'll try different magazines tomorrow, and different shooters too, and BP will have the GoPro filming, so we can document any failures, and also to see if I'm forgetting how to shoot every now and then.
Phil says Billy will sort it out. I don't want the whole afternoon to be about me and my crazy gun, though, so I hope we can just get the testing done and get on with some fun. I've given Jenny at Armscor an emailed heads up about the problems. Told her not to send a shipping label till we do these two days of testing. I also asked her to tell me exactly what they did besides the extractor. We need info.
Any ideas will be appreciated, though I think we've covered everything....except recoil springs?
I'm pretty much over the 1911s, I have to say.....sad, isn't is? I was planning on using the 9mm in that match in Dunn on the 13th, give it a chance to redeem itself from the first match it did. HA!
Thanks for all your input over the months that this has dragged on.....lol.
Today I gave it 150 rounds of Fiocchi 115 grain fmj ammo. I had even more failures to feed than I did yesterday: three today. I got phone pics, not sure why I bothered.
I also gave the Springfield 1911 .45 some rounds. I have now experienced a failure to fire! My first one. Oh, joy! Can you feel the sarcasm?? I had just let a young man shoot the .45 and he loved it, and I had talked the woman they were with into shooting it. She pulled the trigger and nothing happened, so I tried it, and nothing happened. I let the magazine out, racked the slide and a round fell out. Wow! It fired the next round just fine, but was too much for her to handle. I think she was a new shooter. Give her a few months and she'll be shooting a .45 just fine! LOL.
In the interests of thoroughness in our troubleshooting tomorrow, I bought two boxes of 9mm at the range, 124 grain in two different brands. I stopped by Defender Ammo and got a box of 147 grain new fmj. I also stopped by and saw Billy's old buddy Phil at Mid South, and got yet another brand of 147 grain ammo. This will bring the total brand count up to six, and the varying grains up to three different weights. Not sure what else to do.
We'll try different magazines tomorrow, and different shooters too, and BP will have the GoPro filming, so we can document any failures, and also to see if I'm forgetting how to shoot every now and then.
Phil says Billy will sort it out. I don't want the whole afternoon to be about me and my crazy gun, though, so I hope we can just get the testing done and get on with some fun. I've given Jenny at Armscor an emailed heads up about the problems. Told her not to send a shipping label till we do these two days of testing. I also asked her to tell me exactly what they did besides the extractor. We need info.
Any ideas will be appreciated, though I think we've covered everything....except recoil springs?
I'm pretty much over the 1911s, I have to say.....sad, isn't is? I was planning on using the 9mm in that match in Dunn on the 13th, give it a chance to redeem itself from the first match it did. HA!
Thanks for all your input over the months that this has dragged on.....lol.