S&W 945 Fail to Extract
Had a thread running under the ammo title on my new to me(or not so new anymore to me) s&w 945. My first time to the range had on average 2 fte per mag. After about 4 mags of this I gave up. Turned to the s&w forum community and the advise I receive was first make sure it is clean and the extractor is not damaged. second get some new recoils springs, it is the easiest thing to do and try that. Third if that fails try a new extractor spring.
Well I am at number three now. On my second range visit I had the wolf tuning recoil spring pack #15 thru #20 and the midway 8” long. I think the midway and the wolf #18 had the least fte but neither was acceptable.
This morning I finally got to cleaning the gun and removed the extractor. Took some photos to post but having trouble with upload. I don’t see anything unusual. I will have to look thru what I purchased when I got the recoil springs but I did purchase new extractor springs I think from midway and numrich.
Does any one know if it is worth trying to place shims under the extractor spring during reassembly. I have some .010 ss shim stock that I could stamp out some round shims. I would like to know is it worth trying the shims with a new spring?
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