I'm no gunsmith I only worked on a couple of compact 1911s
The extractors were the issue
I refaced and tensioned them.
After replacing the mags
they worked fine
apparently one guy thought the rounds should feed smoothly into the chamber.
so he bent the extractor
way to far out.
and he nearly ruined the barrel by over polishing it.
my gunsmith friend always said
reliability suffers below commander length slides.
That's what I was anticipating this one being, but when I racked the slide with it empty and it still got stuck I started looking elsewhere.
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