Hey guys, I just recently picked up an SR1911. I Haven't taken it to the range yet, but I was fiddling with it at home and noticed that when I chamber a round and manually eject it, they all come out with a deep scratch on the case mouth. Deep enough to make me not want to reload the brass for fear of the case splitting when I fire them. Please advise.
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SR1911 making deep marks on case mouth
- Thread starter Evad
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precision_shooter
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Scratch or small crease, maybe from a sharp edge on the feed ramp?
Can you slowly eject a round and keep track of how it was oriented when ejecting to note whether the scratch is on the top, side, or bottom of the round as chambered?
Can you slowly eject a round and keep track of how it was oriented when ejecting to note whether the scratch is on the top, side, or bottom of the round as chambered?
polyphemus
New member
fiddling
Loading and ejecting is not a good idea to begin with,you are inviting bullet
setback.Grinding,filing and otherwise modifying anything may void your warranty.
Please hold your impulses until you are at a safe place to shoot a few rounds
then save two or three cases and post a picture.
If it turns out to be a defect of some sorts then Ruger will help.
Or it could be the magazine.
Loading and ejecting is not a good idea to begin with,you are inviting bullet
setback.Grinding,filing and otherwise modifying anything may void your warranty.
Please hold your impulses until you are at a safe place to shoot a few rounds
then save two or three cases and post a picture.
If it turns out to be a defect of some sorts then Ruger will help.
Or it could be the magazine.
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A decade or so ago I bought an assembled-from-parts 1911 on an aluminum Para-Ord P-14 frame for just south of $400. The pistol functioned just fine but would leave a shallow longitudinal v-shaped dent about 1/16th inch long on the empty case mouth. Finally traced it to the ejecting case impacting the shallow ejection port on the slide, which had no mfr. markings at all. I reloaded the spent cases with no problems. I figured it was caused by the extractor angle/tension. I no longer have the pistol to compare with the OP's situation.
polyphemus
New member
V shaped dent
This is mostly an extractor tension issue and when properly set it will eliminate this annoyance.Relieving the ejection port edges where the cases rub on their
way out is going a little too far for this issue especially since fixing the extractor
tension will at worst allow only a slight easily polished blemish.
This is mostly an extractor tension issue and when properly set it will eliminate this annoyance.Relieving the ejection port edges where the cases rub on their
way out is going a little too far for this issue especially since fixing the extractor
tension will at worst allow only a slight easily polished blemish.