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Usually I have found it is the slide not going into battery. cycling it a few hundred times by hand with some lube on the top of the barrel where it likely scraping against the slide.
Yep, it does. But not all the time. Sometime too tight a tolerances.This can be mitigated by polishing the rails before you put them into the frame. Greatly helps reduce that break-in period.