Well I was finally able to make it back to the range yesterday. I am wrapping up my senior year of college and all of the projects and presentations have been keeping me super busy.
I took with me:
Colt XS GM with about 50-75 rounds through it.
Two Wilson #47D magazines
One Colt 8rd mag that came with the pistol
100 rounds Black Hills 230grain FMJ
100 rounds S&B 230 grain FMJ
Rosen 5JR Express holster and double mag carrier
I only had one Failure to Feed and that was on the last round of S&B from the Colt mag. The round was sitting on the follower base down with the round pointing toward the sky. It easily came out.
The round had some slight scratches on the bullet tip.
I reloaded the round into the same magazine and it fed and fired fine.
We won't even talk about accuracy cause I am not even close to what the gun can do as evidenced by what my father can do with it compared to me.
It ejected shells pretty consistently from what I could tell, but I forgot to bring my tarp so I had a hard time following them landing in the grass.
When I was cleaning the pistol afterwards I noticed that I could wiggle the ejector. It wasn't really loose, just loose enought that I could tell that it was wiggling. Is that ok, or will it become looser as time goes on?
One more question. It was the first time that I had put the pistol in the holster (just got the holster on wednesday and went to the range on thursday) and the XS has blasted rounds. The blasted rounds being slightly rough were rubbing the leather and some of the color and leather were rubbing into the stainless steel blast finish. It came off easy enough with hoppes #9 but I am wondering if this will eventually go away or will it always leave reddish brown rub marks on the gun? (holster is cuban brown).
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Can't wait to go to the range again.
I took with me:
Colt XS GM with about 50-75 rounds through it.
Two Wilson #47D magazines
One Colt 8rd mag that came with the pistol
100 rounds Black Hills 230grain FMJ
100 rounds S&B 230 grain FMJ
Rosen 5JR Express holster and double mag carrier
I only had one Failure to Feed and that was on the last round of S&B from the Colt mag. The round was sitting on the follower base down with the round pointing toward the sky. It easily came out.
The round had some slight scratches on the bullet tip.
I reloaded the round into the same magazine and it fed and fired fine.
We won't even talk about accuracy cause I am not even close to what the gun can do as evidenced by what my father can do with it compared to me.
It ejected shells pretty consistently from what I could tell, but I forgot to bring my tarp so I had a hard time following them landing in the grass.
When I was cleaning the pistol afterwards I noticed that I could wiggle the ejector. It wasn't really loose, just loose enought that I could tell that it was wiggling. Is that ok, or will it become looser as time goes on?
One more question. It was the first time that I had put the pistol in the holster (just got the holster on wednesday and went to the range on thursday) and the XS has blasted rounds. The blasted rounds being slightly rough were rubbing the leather and some of the color and leather were rubbing into the stainless steel blast finish. It came off easy enough with hoppes #9 but I am wondering if this will eventually go away or will it always leave reddish brown rub marks on the gun? (holster is cuban brown).
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Can't wait to go to the range again.