Okay, I've been having the occassional failure to go into battery from slide lock on a full mag. The gun is a Wilson Combat 1996A2 and the mags are 6 WC 8 rounders (3 "old style" feedlips, 3 "new style" feedlips) and 1 WC BeaurocRAT (couldn't resist ) 10 rounder (also "old style" feedlips).
I purchased the gun NIB in '96 and initially attributed the troubles to new/tight mag springs. However, I had to send the gun back to Wilsons for an unrelated issue and had them check the feedramp. They said it checked out okay and they didn't have any problems with it. But, the problems still persisted. I thought I had isolated the 2 mags that were causing me problems, but it just happened again last weekend. The 2 "isolated" mags are "old style" feedlips, and I unfortunately did not think to identify the 1 mag that gave me a failure last Saturday.
The problem is always a failure to chamber a round from slide lock. The round gets caught/rammed into the feedramp and the slide is open maybe only halfway over the magazine. The pistol only has about 1,200 rounds through it, so I don't think it needs a new recoil spring (which WC rec's at 2,000 rounds, though I had this problem when it was new). I am using new never chambered (i.e., full length and not shortened from repeated chamberings) Georgia Arms new (not remanufactured) "canned heat" 230 grain FMJ and Federal 230 grain Hydra-Shoks.
A possibly related problem is that if I chamber the same round more than 2-3 times it will start to get pushed back into the case. At that point the round is shorter and likely to cause feeding problems as well as increased pressure levels. I've been told that this is fairly common with .45ACP but usually doesn't happen with 9mm or .40S&W. FWIW, I don't know if this provides any more clues into the source of the failures to chamber.
BTW, WC's customer service is some of the best I've encountered in this industry. If I need to send the gun back, I'm sure that they would be more than happy to look it over for me, but with shipping costs I'd hate to do that when they've already said the feedramps were okay.
TIA
I purchased the gun NIB in '96 and initially attributed the troubles to new/tight mag springs. However, I had to send the gun back to Wilsons for an unrelated issue and had them check the feedramp. They said it checked out okay and they didn't have any problems with it. But, the problems still persisted. I thought I had isolated the 2 mags that were causing me problems, but it just happened again last weekend. The 2 "isolated" mags are "old style" feedlips, and I unfortunately did not think to identify the 1 mag that gave me a failure last Saturday.
The problem is always a failure to chamber a round from slide lock. The round gets caught/rammed into the feedramp and the slide is open maybe only halfway over the magazine. The pistol only has about 1,200 rounds through it, so I don't think it needs a new recoil spring (which WC rec's at 2,000 rounds, though I had this problem when it was new). I am using new never chambered (i.e., full length and not shortened from repeated chamberings) Georgia Arms new (not remanufactured) "canned heat" 230 grain FMJ and Federal 230 grain Hydra-Shoks.
A possibly related problem is that if I chamber the same round more than 2-3 times it will start to get pushed back into the case. At that point the round is shorter and likely to cause feeding problems as well as increased pressure levels. I've been told that this is fairly common with .45ACP but usually doesn't happen with 9mm or .40S&W. FWIW, I don't know if this provides any more clues into the source of the failures to chamber.
BTW, WC's customer service is some of the best I've encountered in this industry. If I need to send the gun back, I'm sure that they would be more than happy to look it over for me, but with shipping costs I'd hate to do that when they've already said the feedramps were okay.
TIA