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SA 1911 Garrison-Failure To Feed

If you have access to a skilled gunsmith get a throat & polish job done on the feed ramp & throat of the low barrel as it interfaces with the feed ramp. Even needed at times on a ramped barrel.

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The third pic (left to right) shows how a gap can occur between the two which can cause issues, and a throat & polish job blends the two.
 
Update: My 1911 is repaired and SA did the following:
*Inspected Pistol
*Reamed Chamber
*Polished Chamber
*Polished Throat
*Polished Breech Face
*Tuned Extractor
*Polished Bottom of Slide
*Safety Checked & Tested
We shall see. Really looking forward to getting it back.
Thanks for all of the input.
 
tbiede said:
Hi everyone. I am new to this forum. I just, this past Friday, picked up my new Springfield Armory 1911 Garrison .45 ACP. When I bought the gun, I also bought an extra SA 1911 7 RD clip and a 50 round box of Blazer FMJ .45 Auto in Brass. I went to the range yesterday to try my new firearm. I loaded 7 rounds in each of the 2 magazines that I had and proceeded to shoot. I got a failure to fire about halfway through the mag. I cleared it and the rest of the first clip was fine. I then put the 2nd mag. in and proceeded to shoot at the target. Again, about halfway through, I got a failure to feed. I cleared it also, and the rest of the clip was fine. I then reloaded the 2 magazines, only putting 6 rounds in each. I put the first magazine in and pulled the slide back and, again, got a failure to feed. I had a hard time clearing this jam, but was finally able to and then cycled through the rest of the magazine with no issues. I had 1 more failure to feed in this 50 round box and then I was done. I wanted to get home to call Springfield Armory asap. I talked a woman from SA and she set me up with sending the firearm back to get it looked at. She was great!
I have 8 or so different firearms from different manufacturers and have only had 1 failure to feed happen with 1 of my firearms.

Does anyone have a guess as to what may be wrong with this firearm?

(Btw, I dropped the firearm off at FedEx this morning. I will let you all know what the problem with it is when I find out.)

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
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Well, this post brings me back. Years ago, having received my shiny new LTC, I ran to the LGS and bought a brand-new SIG Target 1911. I was anxious to hit the range and try it out, so I asked the LGS guy if I needed to clean it first. He scoffed at the notion and said I'd be fine.

I got to the range and, in short order, looked like a jackass.

My new 1911 exhibited every type of failure you could imagine. Stove pipes, failure to feed, slide locking back after 3 shots, you name it. In no time, I attracted a crowd of gawkers marveling at my misfortune.

Long story short, I went home and cleaned the H*ll out of it. Next day, I went to the range and it was 90% better. After a break-in period, I was at 100%.

I think that being the Target model, the tolerances were pretty tight, making break-in more necessary. For this reason, I've heard and read multiple times not to use a target pistol for EDC. Roger that!
 
tbiede said:
Update: My 1911 is repaired and SA did the following:
*Inspected Pistol
*Reamed Chamber
*Polished Chamber
*Polished Throat
*Polished Breech Face
*Tuned Extractor
*Polished Bottom of Slide
*Safety Checked & Tested
We shall see. Really looking forward to getting it back.
Thanks for all of the input.
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This begs the question: Why was the 1911 sent out for sale if it needed all this work? I had an identical experience with my Ruger Mini-14.
 
g-man07 said:
This begs the question: Why was the 1911 sent out for sale if it needed all this work? I had an identical experience with my Ruger Mini-14.
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I agree. I own multiple firearms, from different manufacturers, and I’ve never had problems like this before. (The only problem I’ve ever had with all of my firearms is, a Ruger Security-9 that I bought a couple of years ago. I had 1 failure to feed with it, and it never happened again.) I am very anal about keeping my firearms clean.
I watched some YouTube videos before I bought this 1911, and they all raved about the high quality of this pistol.
I will clean it and then take it to the range and put a couple of hundred rounds through it and we will see what happens.
 
g-man07 said:
This begs the question: Why was the 1911 sent out for sale if it needed all this work? I had an identical experience with my Ruger Mini-14.
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i had spoken many months ago, like over a year ago, of a Kimber Custom II that i owned..beautiful 1911 too at that.

it gave me issues, much like @tbiede 's did. one call to Kimber at thier new location down south, they emailed me a mailing label, and off it went..less than 1 week went by, they sent it back all fixed, and super better...great job on Kimber's part.



why does it........ "beg to question, why was it sent out for sale"?

why ask why, when it is an assembly line product, and not a 1 gun 1 gunsmith built gun, like the more expensive ones..???

they may, or may not, test fire all the assembly line guns, and if they do, what are the chances any issues will crop up with only 1 test firing..???

don't you think it would take like maybe 10, 15, 50 rounds of testing each gun..??

they ain't got time for that amount of testing, like the 1 gun, 1 gunsmith built stuff...

shite happens, and like me, @tbiede got himself a gun that needed to be sent back...me, nor him, are the first ones to have this happen to, and neither he nor i...will be the last....

on factory, assembly line produced guns........
 
Old_Me said:
i had spoken many months ago, like over a year ago, of a Kimber Custom II that i owned..beautiful 1911 too at that.

it gave me issues, much like @tbiede 's did. one call to Kimber at thier new location down south, they emailed me a mailing label, and off it went..less than 1 week went by, they sent it back all fixed, and super better...great job on Kimber's part.



why does it........ "beg to question, why was it sent out for sale"?

why ask why, when it is an assembly line product, and not a 1 gun 1 gunsmith built gun, like the more expensive ones..???

they may, or may not, test fire all the assembly line guns, and if they do, what are the chances any issues will crop up with only 1 test firing..???

don't you think it would take like maybe 10, 15, 50 rounds of testing each gun..??

they ain't got time for that amount of testing, like the 1 gun, 1 gunsmith built stuff...

shite happens, and like me, @tbiede got himself a gun that needed to be sent back...me, nor him, are the first ones to have this happen to, and neither he nor i...will be the last....

on factory, assembly line produced guns........
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Mass production, why did S&W put out revolvers with canted barrels, why did the new Colt Python have under torqued side plates, Glocks have bad RSA on the Gen 4’s, it happens, poor or no quality control……
 
Old_Me said:
i had spoken many months ago, like over a year ago, of a Kimber Custom II that i owned..beautiful 1911 too at that.

it gave me issues, much like @tbiede 's did. one call to Kimber at thier new location down south, they emailed me a mailing label, and off it went..less than 1 week went by, they sent it back all fixed, and super better...great job on Kimber's part.



why does it........ "beg to question, why was it sent out for sale"?

why ask why, when it is an assembly line product, and not a 1 gun 1 gunsmith built gun, like the more expensive ones..???

they may, or may not, test fire all the assembly line guns, and if they do, what are the chances any issues will crop up with only 1 test firing..???

don't you think it would take like maybe 10, 15, 50 rounds of testing each gun..??

they ain't got time for that amount of testing, like the 1 gun, 1 gunsmith built stuff...

shite happens, and like me, @tbiede got himself a gun that needed to be sent back...me, nor him, are the first ones to have this happen to, and neither he nor i...will be the last....

on factory, assembly line produced guns........
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If you are content with paying good money for a defective product, who am I to argue?
 
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