1911 quiz
Friend brought over a single stack 1911 with the slide locked back. Asked if I would look at it and let him know what it needed to fix it. I tapped on the back of the slide several times with a wooden mallet and the slide finally closed. I pulled the slide open and it locked up again. Tap, tap, slide closes. Field stripped the slide.
Guesses as to what I found??
1911 quiz
Broken recoil spring? Broken guide rod?
Or did he assemble it and somehow miss the link?
Otony
1911 quiz
by Slow Hand 
, Indiana, Sunday, January 26, 2014, 15:23 (3960 days ago) @ Otony
I'm thinking missing link, too...
no missing, broken, misassembled parts
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in the words of Bugs Bunny "Dia-bo-lical sa-bo-tagee!"
by Miles Fortis , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Sunday, January 26, 2014, 19:06 (3960 days ago) @ ERSisk
sounds like a primer got loose and gummed things up.
A bulge in the barrel will do that. N/T
by JLF , Sunday, January 26, 2014, 18:31 (3960 days ago) @ ERSisk
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Winner, Winner, Chicken dinner
Rear of barrel bushing taper locked onto bulge just in front of the locking lugs.
Don't ask how I knew.:) N/T
by JLF , Sunday, January 26, 2014, 21:24 (3959 days ago) @ ERSisk
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Don't ask how I knew.:) N/T
See now… if you said the slide wouldn't go BACK, then I would have had the answer.
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A SiGP220.
Hard to take the gun apart and fix it when the slide won't move. Getting the barrel out was about 3 hours work. When I finally got the slide off, I had to saw part of the muzzle off to get the barrel to tip enough to to come free. Man I did all manner of horrible awful things to that gun to get it apart.