This is the engineer in me speaking.
Failure to eject is the symptom. There are a number of things you can do to prevent the symptoms from appearing but that does not necessarily solve the underlying problem.
The S&W 1911s (two of them I have tested anyways) I have cycle reliably (thought not positively) with a 16 pound recoil spring and 23 pound mainspring with 230 grain ammo going as slow as 650 FPS. A 16 pound spring should function with a wide variety of ammunition in a correct gun and respringing should not be necessary though it does have other benefits especially when shooting power puff loads. Correct guns are not functioning at the edge of reliability so you have quite a bit of lee-way before problems start showing up. If problems show up when they should not then it is time to address the root cause.
The magazine is an ammunition feeding device. I wouldn't eat off it, why would I rely on it for reliable ejection?
Cue the delicate and sensitive fine china firearm crowd.
Failure to eject is the symptom. There are a number of things you can do to prevent the symptoms from appearing but that does not necessarily solve the underlying problem.
The S&W 1911s (two of them I have tested anyways) I have cycle reliably (thought not positively) with a 16 pound recoil spring and 23 pound mainspring with 230 grain ammo going as slow as 650 FPS. A 16 pound spring should function with a wide variety of ammunition in a correct gun and respringing should not be necessary though it does have other benefits especially when shooting power puff loads. Correct guns are not functioning at the edge of reliability so you have quite a bit of lee-way before problems start showing up. If problems show up when they should not then it is time to address the root cause.
The magazine is an ammunition feeding device. I wouldn't eat off it, why would I rely on it for reliable ejection?
Cue the delicate and sensitive fine china firearm crowd.
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