[Hilton Yam]

On some 1911's I've seen nose up feed jams in which the fresh round jams with the nose pointing into the top of the chamber or bbl hood. I typically attribute this to the magazine. What are other culprits of the nose up jam that might be examined on the 1911?

 

[GrandmasterB]

Here are some possible culprits:

1. Too much extractor tension

2. poor or no radius on bottom angle of extractor hook

3. rough breechface

 

[Shane1911]

Also, improper recoil spring weight for the load being used or improper OAL length of cartridge (usually too short, but I've seen some that are too long occasionally do the same).

 

[bad4u]

Recoil spring tension can be a culprit.

Since my Para is an alloy frame gun, I tried using recoil buffers at last range session. The Para hasn't misfed for the last 2,000 rounds without recoil buffers, but I did get one misfeed out of 50 rounds with the buffer in place.

The nature of the mis-feed was a stoppage with a stove-pipe.

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