Greg All Calibers
New member
Recently, I started having a failure with my S&W .45 4513TSW. After it goes bang, the casing ejects just fine, but when the slide moves the next round into battery, the back of the new casing, at the cartridge extractor groove, sometimes will end up on the *wrong* side of the extractor (towards the barrel). Sometimes the round will slide over the extractor and seat on the breechface properly after the slide closes, sometimes it will not. You have to give the slide a good push from the rear to seat the round when this happens.
Getting new mags and recoil springs helped a lot, but still got one failure in 50 rds (started with very clean gun, kept shooting until a got a failure on rd # 21). The failure almost always happens on the last few rounds in the mag (makes sense, that's when the mag spring is more relaxed).
1. Has this ever happened to you- or do you know about this failure?
2. Is it normal, during the cycling of a round, for the back of the new casing to move from the barrel side of the extractor, then snap under it when the slide closes under the recoil spring pressure (or are autos always supposed to move the new round underneath the extractor as it's taking it out of the magazine
Thanks for your help.
Best Rgds, Greg
Dallas, Texas
Getting new mags and recoil springs helped a lot, but still got one failure in 50 rds (started with very clean gun, kept shooting until a got a failure on rd # 21). The failure almost always happens on the last few rounds in the mag (makes sense, that's when the mag spring is more relaxed).
1. Has this ever happened to you- or do you know about this failure?
2. Is it normal, during the cycling of a round, for the back of the new casing to move from the barrel side of the extractor, then snap under it when the slide closes under the recoil spring pressure (or are autos always supposed to move the new round underneath the extractor as it's taking it out of the magazine
Thanks for your help.
Best Rgds, Greg
Dallas, Texas