Whats the most common malfunction in your 1911?

[Correia]

#1. Funky ammo.
#2. Failure to return fully into battery when gun is very very dirty. (try about 800 rounds of lead semi wadcutters over Bullseye with out cleaning before that happens).
#3. Extractor tears through the rim of the cartridge case upon extraction. (bad piece of brass)
I've been lucky and I haven't had any parts failures with a 1911. Yet.

And amen Brother 444! Just about everything can malfunction. If you haven't seen it malfunction, then you haven't shot it enough! And for you Glock fans, I hate to break it to you, despite Chuck Taylor's 900,000,000 round G17, Glocks jam just like 1911s, HKs, Rugers, Sigs, Tauri, CZs, Smiths, AR15s, FALs, AKs (yes I've seen 2 AKs malfunction), and everything else. Go shoot some competition, I guarentee that you will see just about everything malf at some point. Even your personal favorite magic wonder gun.

The only gun I've never seen malfunction is an 870, but then again, I've heard of other folks shortstroking those! Anything more complicated than a pointy rock will eventually malfunction.

 

[Westtexas]

I love seeing

Glocks choke in IDPA competitions. Any gun can jam, its training that makes the difference. No gun is better than any other gun, it's the man shooting it. Oh, and btw, what is the gun that Rob Leatham, Doug Koenig, Ken Hackathorn, and Clint Smith shoot? Well, I'll be, it's a 1911! And I'll bet all of them shoot better than ol denfoote!

Bob

 

[Yowza]

I just had my first malfunction in my Springfield the other day. I guess you'd call it a failure to feed but I think the chamber may have just been a bit dirty. All it took was a little bump and it was ready to go. I guess I'm gonna have to clean it really good this time.

Rick

 

[Erik]

I've had failures to feed and failures to go into battery. (Very few. I can count them on one hand. But I've had them.)

Easily taken care of with a heavier spring and different magazines.

 

[jimmy]

I've had very few feeding and extraction problems, but have experienced a lot of failures to eject due to weak extractor tension. This happened at a time, maybe 15 to 20 years ago, when--according to my theory--Colt's just stuck an extractor into its guns without checking the tension, then sent them on their way to be bought by unsuspecting people like me. Or so it seemed.

 

[coz]

Springfield 1911 v-10 ultra compact. Ported.

Runs out of ammo long before I wanna stop putting holes in the bullseye.

Likes, FMJ's, Hydrashoks and Silvertips so far without question.

Seems to jump more with +p ammo.....

so I guess I go with Type 4 ---runs out of ammo

Oh and I have to pry it from my bride's hands cause she wants to shoot it more than any other pistol when we're at the range....

 

[blades67]

The most common problem I have encountered with my 1911's has been the slide locking to the rear after only seven rounds. I tried different magazines, but then the slide would lock to the rear after only eight rounds!

 

[September11]

None of the above -

I have only ever had one issue. - loading inexpensive practice ammo that hasn't been properly made (crimping I think) will cause the first round from entering the chamber occationally. This has never happened with my carry load and only happens maybe once or twice in 500 rounds and it only happens with that first round when loading a new magizine.
The less expensive practive ammo seems to have the bullet less tightly fit into the shell which causes it to catch on the ramp.
Some consider this an ammo issue, others would say it is the weapon. I still consider myself a newbie...