I recently purchased a Sig Sauer 1911 Ultra Nitro for my CCW, and I am running into failure to feed/load issues and its driving me up the wall. I am seeking out some help from a knowledgable 1911 guru. I have searched the net trying to find various fixes and tricks to help this puppy feed correctly, but nothing seems to work. Here is some background from the beginning.
When I received the 1911, I immediately broke the gun down and gave it a good cleaning, and oiled all the parts appropriately (making sure not to overdo it during the process). Then I put it back together and preformed the standard safety checks necessary to make sure it functioned properly. At this point in time all seemed fine so I headed off to the range for the first time. At the range, I proceeded to shoot the gun just fine for the first 50 or so rounds (using winchester 230 gr FMJ rounds). My first failure to feed/load happened on the 3rd round of a full magazine (mag capacity 7 rounds). So I cleared the gun and continued with the other 4 shots. The second failure to feed happened again with the next magazine, but with round 2 (same ammo), cleared again, and continued. This happened 3 more times with failures to feed at shot 2, 5 and 6 while using two factory magazines over 150 shots fired. At this point in time, I thought it could be the ammo so I tried 230 gr JHP Speer Gold Dot's. I loaded the magazine placed in the gun and then racked the gun for loading. Immediately the first failure to load on round one, so I cleared and tried again with success. Shot 5 came along, jammed, it would not load. This happened a few more times so I switched out the ammo again. This time I tried Federal Hydra-Shok 203 gr, the same results ensued over 15 total shots.
Frustrated with my range results, I went home to clean the gun and do some googling on the issue. Once home with the gun clean, I wanted to see where the rounds were catching, and (to me) it looks like the rounds might be catching on the upper most part of the aluminum slot where the magazine slides into (pictured below). You can see where some "rounding" on the aluminum is occurring. Now I'm not a 1911 expert by any means, but my gut tells me that shouldn't be happening. By looking at a jam, it also looks like the top of the brass casing or the lip (right where the bullet fits into the casing) might be catching on the feed ramp or that aluminum spot indicated in the picture.
Im totally lost, and extremely frustrated that I have such an awesome 1911 that I see is unfit for protection purposes (….that is if you need more than one round). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to contact Sig about this, but I cannot get through on their phone system.
When I received the 1911, I immediately broke the gun down and gave it a good cleaning, and oiled all the parts appropriately (making sure not to overdo it during the process). Then I put it back together and preformed the standard safety checks necessary to make sure it functioned properly. At this point in time all seemed fine so I headed off to the range for the first time. At the range, I proceeded to shoot the gun just fine for the first 50 or so rounds (using winchester 230 gr FMJ rounds). My first failure to feed/load happened on the 3rd round of a full magazine (mag capacity 7 rounds). So I cleared the gun and continued with the other 4 shots. The second failure to feed happened again with the next magazine, but with round 2 (same ammo), cleared again, and continued. This happened 3 more times with failures to feed at shot 2, 5 and 6 while using two factory magazines over 150 shots fired. At this point in time, I thought it could be the ammo so I tried 230 gr JHP Speer Gold Dot's. I loaded the magazine placed in the gun and then racked the gun for loading. Immediately the first failure to load on round one, so I cleared and tried again with success. Shot 5 came along, jammed, it would not load. This happened a few more times so I switched out the ammo again. This time I tried Federal Hydra-Shok 203 gr, the same results ensued over 15 total shots.
Frustrated with my range results, I went home to clean the gun and do some googling on the issue. Once home with the gun clean, I wanted to see where the rounds were catching, and (to me) it looks like the rounds might be catching on the upper most part of the aluminum slot where the magazine slides into (pictured below). You can see where some "rounding" on the aluminum is occurring. Now I'm not a 1911 expert by any means, but my gut tells me that shouldn't be happening. By looking at a jam, it also looks like the top of the brass casing or the lip (right where the bullet fits into the casing) might be catching on the feed ramp or that aluminum spot indicated in the picture.
Im totally lost, and extremely frustrated that I have such an awesome 1911 that I see is unfit for protection purposes (….that is if you need more than one round). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to contact Sig about this, but I cannot get through on their phone system.
