lockback

Slide lock problem with a Rock Island (RIA) showed up last week. The slide sometimes would not lock back on an empty Wilson Combat Model 17 (now 290) magazine. It worked fine on a Wilson Combat Model 47. The fix on my other Rock Island 1911 with a similiar problem had been to get a Colt slide...

Have an uncommon but not unheard of problem with a new colt gov 1911. The little plunger, that interacts with the slide stop, to keep the slide stop down while firing, is too short. It just barley touches the slide stop allowing it to flop around freely. This is giving me some of the expected...