I have a new model e that I bought a few years ago and I was going to check it out before I went to try it. It seemed that it was really hard to rack. Followed the instructions to field strip the pistol, but when I came to the part to remove the slide stop it just didn't want to slide out. I have tapped it with wooden dowel and small hammer, it is in alignment with the notch. It appears that it just doesn't want to slide out. Any suggestions, I don't want to break anything.


Got it guys, had wrong notch aligned. Just not familiar with 1911's, reread instructions and found what I was doing wrong.

gg