Parts came. I installed them but I dont think the extractor seated flat enough in the slide channel. Went to the range. Ran 50 CCI Blazer 380 FMJ's through it without a hitch.
Tried a few more today. About 8 shots in, I got a fail to extract that wedged the action. Looked over the gun and, lo and behold, the extractor, plunger and spring again had launched into the universe.
This time I at least knew what to look for and as luck would have it, i found all three parts. The extractor was near the brass on the floor behind me. The plunger and spring were on the range floor beyond the stand. Got the range officer to recover those for me. A close examination of the parts revealed no damage to the parts that I can see.
The range officer said he knew of a couple folks that were having the identical problem with their 380 LCP II's.
I'm suspecting I have some kind of tolerancing issue among the slide extractor channel (specifically the blind hole where the extractor round peg fits), the extractor and the plunger. I'm betting it's the depth or placement of the round hole in the slide that faces up and out toward the side of the channel, but I guess it could be some interference between the plunger and the extractor. See attached photo....does your extractor as installed look like this one? Specifically, the space in the channel behind (left) of the extractor part. I have pulled up a few hi res photos on the web and I guess mine looks like most of those. Other guns seem to have no space at all behind the extractor.
If it wasn't for the other local occurrences of the same thing, I'd probably reassemble and try again. I'm not inclined to drill a slide that's under warranty, so I suspect this is heading to Customer Service Land.
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Well, I did reassemble and tried again. This time, it was hanging up on CCI BLAZER Brass occasionally, which was the easy runner before. Oddly, it ran Federal Hydra-shok low recoil which made it choke after each round previous. I actually had a couple mags of it run with only 1 or 2 hitches.
I really didn't want to send the gun back but I dont know what else to do.
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