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"Post-recall" first range trip
Took my NIB Elsie out and ran about 70 rounds thru it. It's got the "newer" blued barrel, serial #63xxx. Had Golden Sabers, Cor-Bon 90gr JHP and WWB. Had multiple feed failures even with the WWB which surprised me greatly. Several loads would hang up when being chambered initially. Cor-Bon jammed almost every round and the one mag of Gold Sabers I fired had 1 bobble but hit about 3" low at 7 yards. Very surprised a "Post-Recall" gun would be problematic. Gun was lubed properly with Tetra L and clean as a whistle.
When I got home I gave the feed ramp a good cleaning and inspection and discovered the bluing concealed some tool-marks and that all the rounds impacted the ramp right there and would fetch up in the same spot time after time.
I took my trusty dremel with a felt wheel and jewlers rouge and polished the ramp and the edge of the chamber VERY carefully and polished the recoil spring guide as well. I haven't shot it yet, but there is no hitch whatsoever chambering even Cor-Bon JHP now or any of the other ammo I have on-hand. Hand cycled 2 mags worth of the Cor-Bon perfectly.
This particular gun gave me a 1" group at 7 yards dead cenetr with the WWB and close to that with Cor-Bon, but the Golden Saber shot quite low even at this range, close to 3" low in fact. Was battling near zero' weather conditions have to re-test when it warms up.
Anyone who buys a "Post-Recall" gun may still have issues and I'd highly recommend testing it rigerously before "assuming" it will function when you need it.
Took my NIB Elsie out and ran about 70 rounds thru it. It's got the "newer" blued barrel, serial #63xxx. Had Golden Sabers, Cor-Bon 90gr JHP and WWB. Had multiple feed failures even with the WWB which surprised me greatly. Several loads would hang up when being chambered initially. Cor-Bon jammed almost every round and the one mag of Gold Sabers I fired had 1 bobble but hit about 3" low at 7 yards. Very surprised a "Post-Recall" gun would be problematic. Gun was lubed properly with Tetra L and clean as a whistle.
When I got home I gave the feed ramp a good cleaning and inspection and discovered the bluing concealed some tool-marks and that all the rounds impacted the ramp right there and would fetch up in the same spot time after time.
I took my trusty dremel with a felt wheel and jewlers rouge and polished the ramp and the edge of the chamber VERY carefully and polished the recoil spring guide as well. I haven't shot it yet, but there is no hitch whatsoever chambering even Cor-Bon JHP now or any of the other ammo I have on-hand. Hand cycled 2 mags worth of the Cor-Bon perfectly.
This particular gun gave me a 1" group at 7 yards dead cenetr with the WWB and close to that with Cor-Bon, but the Golden Saber shot quite low even at this range, close to 3" low in fact. Was battling near zero' weather conditions have to re-test when it warms up.
Anyone who buys a "Post-Recall" gun may still have issues and I'd highly recommend testing it rigerously before "assuming" it will function when you need it.
