NIB unfired, commander sized slide. Get it home and checking it out and racking the slide it stopped short going into battery. (see pic). Didn't do it all the time... but got it to repeat.
field stripped and thoroughly cleaned it and lubed it. Racked it several times, could feel the sticky spot but it went into battery. Racked it real slow to find it, and did... stuck. Tapped the slide with hand and it went home but another time it would not. Racked it a bunch of times fast and no problems... the clean and lube seemed to help... but it bothered me.
Closer examination saw wear at the barrel lugs to slide. Racked it slow to find the spot... it seems like its hanging up on the barrel lugs... like the forward barrel lug is catching on the rearward slide lug cutout as it rises up into battery. A slight push down on the barrel and it returns home. Turned the gun upside down to let gravity let the barrel lugs catch the slide and slowly racked the slide and replicated that spot.
took the barrel out and held a straight edge to the lugs, they are a tiny bit higher than the top of the barrel chamber area.
Is this normal and will break in, or is this something to send in for warranty repair?
field stripped and thoroughly cleaned it and lubed it. Racked it several times, could feel the sticky spot but it went into battery. Racked it real slow to find it, and did... stuck. Tapped the slide with hand and it went home but another time it would not. Racked it a bunch of times fast and no problems... the clean and lube seemed to help... but it bothered me.
Closer examination saw wear at the barrel lugs to slide. Racked it slow to find the spot... it seems like its hanging up on the barrel lugs... like the forward barrel lug is catching on the rearward slide lug cutout as it rises up into battery. A slight push down on the barrel and it returns home. Turned the gun upside down to let gravity let the barrel lugs catch the slide and slowly racked the slide and replicated that spot.
took the barrel out and held a straight edge to the lugs, they are a tiny bit higher than the top of the barrel chamber area.
Is this normal and will break in, or is this something to send in for warranty repair?