No place else appears to be better to post re: 1911 pro series so here goes. Bought used a month ago; appears well used but not abused.

First range session several failures to extract--work the slide and it extracts and ejects as expected. Took to gunsmith and we replaced all the springs since I didn't know the history of the piece. Still failed to extract on factory and re-loads and then stopped after a round of buffalo bore with case extracted about a quarter inch but stuck in the breech with extractor still engaged on the case rim.

Off to Smith; returned with polished feed ramp, polished breech and new slide stop (don't understand how slide stop affects extraction). In any event now extracts every time but a new and more perplexing problem has arisen.

Light hammer strikes and no detonation on ONLY the first round in the magazine; cock manually and most of them then go bang (the ones that didn't were fed into CZ and do go bang). Happens with factory new Mag Tech and reloads with Winchester primers...is this a spring combination problem? If so how come only first rounds in the magazine? Firing pin safety plunger/spring? Again why only on the first round? Tried both slingshot (normal practice) and slide stop to chamber the round with same results...ideas?


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