GOF wrote:
 This could be a part (slide stop, extractor, ejector) breaking, or a squib load lodging a bullet in the barrel, or an extra long round that engages the rifling but won't let the gun go fully into battery to fire and cannot be removed by cycling the slide, or any one of the numerous screws on a S&W revolver that loosens or falls out and prevents proper SAFE gun function... or anything associated with the 1911 (the potential broken gun scenarios with the 1911 are too numerous to list... but include all of the above and then some).


Extractor - schmextractor......  Pimp

I finished a stage at an IDPA club match a few years ago loading one round at a time after losing the tip of the extractor on a SIG P226 .357SIG.....




Jane - Expert on nothing with opinions on everything...