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I have a Sig 1911. I just took it apart to clean and polish the chamber a little, and when I put it back together, it doesn't lock the slide open anymore when an empty mag is inserted. What's more, it's hard to eject the mag, something is grabbing it even when I press the mag release.
I happened to have another slide stop from another 1911, and when I swapped that in, everything works fine.
Could my slide stop have gotten bent a little when I removed it somehow? I don't think I pressed it hard enough to bend it... it seems like it doesn't catch the edge of the magazine follower, so doesn't get pushed up, or else maybe something else is causing too much friction to let it get pushed up when the magazine is empty.
I happened to have another slide stop from another 1911, and when I swapped that in, everything works fine.
Could my slide stop have gotten bent a little when I removed it somehow? I don't think I pressed it hard enough to bend it... it seems like it doesn't catch the edge of the magazine follower, so doesn't get pushed up, or else maybe something else is causing too much friction to let it get pushed up when the magazine is empty.