Alright, Community Friends. I am in need of some assistance so any help would be appreciated.
So I know that unloading and reloading the same round can damage the rim on casings and have potential issues with extraction. I have NEVER seen it this bad before thought and curious if anyone has seen this and what I may have done wrong to cause this. I have taken the chambered round out for dry fire training and reloaded, but I have never seen it happen to this extent on past carry ammo. I have switched over to Federal HST from previously using SIG V-Crown. That is the only change that I can think of being the cause. The only modifications that have been made are milling out the slide to add my Holosun 407 and putting in an Apex Trigger.
i dont think that is due to unloading/reloading the same round.
To get that kind of wear (chip? shear?) would require the extractor hitting the same spot repeatedly… OR a very strong impact.
Does the extractor flex like its supposed to? They are usually under spring tension so they can ride over the rim when loading. Maybe if its not flexing, the hard extractor metal is going through the case rather than riding over.
It looks like it’s flattening the material, not shearing/chipping anything off.
It isn’t always going into battery when I release the slide (I don’t ease it forward either. I always pull all the way back and release it). That leads me to believe there is an extractor issue but I can’t help but wonder if it’s an ammo issue.
That’s what I was thinking from looking at the deformation on the rim of the case. I would recommend reloading from the magazine. There are tradeoffs both ways. Loading in the chamber 1st means no bullet setback, but potential damage to the extractor or it appears, damage to the cartridge rim. Reloading from the magazine will result in bullet setback when the same cartridge is reloaded enough times.
I would also suggest a careful examination of the extractor because you said it does not always go into battery.
I agree that it sounds like a problem with extractor function. Especially if coincident with getting your milled slide back, I would look for a metal chip to have gotten under the extractor and keep it from lifting over the rim like it should.
When you say “not going to battery”, can you tell whether the round you drop in is not fully chambered or whether the extractor is blocking the slide until it forces the cartridge rim to give way? Do unfired cases extract easily? I’d hate to think that the milling messed up the inside of your slide, but is there anything unusual where slide and barrel interact? That would be my next thought after extractor.
Not sure I see where an ammo problem would play like this — especially if unfired rounds go fully in and easily out. Let us know what you find.
If you reload, you might try making 2 dummy rounds. (no powder, no primer but sized and projectile assembled to specifications). One round used by dropping into chamber and releasing the slide. 2nd round to be loaded from the magazine. Repeat a few times and check to see if problem manifests. It sounds like an extractor problem, or possibly a soft case rim. You might want to check the condition of the extractor, as well.
I don’t know, but can imagine so, do the machine shops dis and re assemble slides to do milling? Maybe it’s not back together perfectly correctly or something was damaged in that process
@Nathan57 hit close to my reply. You had a milling procedure done to the slide. The extractor is one of the few movable pieces in a slide. I’d bet a nickle that you have metal shaving in your extractor ways.
Well, I went to take off the extractor but once I got the red dot off I found out that I won’t be able to. They milled right through the roll pin. Needless to say, I’m not happy but I reached out to the shop that did the work to see what they have to say.
