Hi all,
In late summer of 2020 I picked up a used Wilson Combat CQB in 45 ACP, circa 2005. It had been a solid pistol so far using 230 gr Federal Ultra Target and Range and 230 gr S&B.
Like a lot of people my ammunition choices these days is limited. One of the stores local to me does get in PMC bronze fairly regularly for prices that aren’t outrageous. This is 230 gr brass cased FMJ ammunition. Locally it’s really about the only factory ammunition in stock regularly and the store is pricing it at around $0.60 a round, which is a lot cheaper than a number of the online sources.
The first trip out saw multiple failures to feed, often multiple times per magazines. The rounds wouldn’t chamber fully. Usually a smack to the rear of the slide saw the round chamber and they all fired fine once they fed.
I’m using relatively new Wilson Combat 47D magazines and the recoil spring in the pistol is also new, this one here:
https://shopwilsoncombat.com/Flat-W...-45-ACP-Chrome-Silicon-17-Lb/productinfo/614/
Ideally I would just use rounds I know work. I don’t have that availability currently. Before this the pistol had one failure to extract in 460 rounds. This sudden rash of malfunctions leads me to believe it is the ammunition. I looked over at the 1911 forum and I found mixed reports, some saying PMC Bronze worked fine with their Wilsons, others saying it wouldn’t work at all.
Any advice on what I could do to perhaps make this ammunition run more reliably? A different recoil spring maybe? I am using Shok-Buffs so perhaps trying without those?
Thanks
-TR
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In late summer of 2020 I picked up a used Wilson Combat CQB in 45 ACP, circa 2005. It had been a solid pistol so far using 230 gr Federal Ultra Target and Range and 230 gr S&B.
Like a lot of people my ammunition choices these days is limited. One of the stores local to me does get in PMC bronze fairly regularly for prices that aren’t outrageous. This is 230 gr brass cased FMJ ammunition. Locally it’s really about the only factory ammunition in stock regularly and the store is pricing it at around $0.60 a round, which is a lot cheaper than a number of the online sources.
The first trip out saw multiple failures to feed, often multiple times per magazines. The rounds wouldn’t chamber fully. Usually a smack to the rear of the slide saw the round chamber and they all fired fine once they fed.
I’m using relatively new Wilson Combat 47D magazines and the recoil spring in the pistol is also new, this one here:
https://shopwilsoncombat.com/Flat-W...-45-ACP-Chrome-Silicon-17-Lb/productinfo/614/
Ideally I would just use rounds I know work. I don’t have that availability currently. Before this the pistol had one failure to extract in 460 rounds. This sudden rash of malfunctions leads me to believe it is the ammunition. I looked over at the 1911 forum and I found mixed reports, some saying PMC Bronze worked fine with their Wilsons, others saying it wouldn’t work at all.
Any advice on what I could do to perhaps make this ammunition run more reliably? A different recoil spring maybe? I am using Shok-Buffs so perhaps trying without those?
Thanks
-TR
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