Sig 1911 failing to extract......should i remove the external extractor and clean or nah? Update......yes cleaning the extractor is a good idea.

whacko said:
My sig 1911 is 6 years old.....many many many thousands of rounds thru it. I clean it once a month just field strip. Never detail stripped it. It's run flawlessly for 6 years......eats every factory and reload I've ever fed it.

Last week I developed fail to extract issues. About once every other magazine. I did my usual field strip and clean today and took it to the range to try 4 different reloads and some factory ammo. Same problem on all ammo. Fail to extract about once every other mag. I tested the extractor tension by removing the slide and putting a live round in the extractor against the bolt face.....shook the slide and then extractor held it pretty well.

Can this be junk behind the external extractor? I've read yeah and nay on removing the external extractor.....I'd like to clean behind the extractor and see if this solves my problem.

What say you nes? Yeah or nay?
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I'd need a more defined 'field strip' definition.

I own several pick sets, I use those to get in behind various extruded metal pieces. My USP started having odd issues, co-worker took my gun apart and pulled way more crap out of it than I thought imaginable with a set of picks. A full teardown is rarely needed if you know where you need to get crap out of your gun. I didn't know, until I was shown either.

My HnK was 15 years old when I turned it in, I shot it 'a little bit', it was being phased out so I couldn't get parts for it 'officially' even if I wanted to. But the extractor was still working fine. 6 years seems a little young, but I know things happen.

Edit because I went all ADHD on this post.
 
weekendracer said:
I'd need a more defined 'field strip' definition.

I own several pick sets, I use those to get in behind various extruded metal pieces. My USP started having odd issues, co-worker took my gun apart and pulled way more crap out of it than I thought imaginable with a set of picks. A full teardown is rarely needed if you know where you need to get crap out of your gun. I didn't know, until I was shown either.

My HnK was 15 years old when I turned it in, I shot it 'a little bit', it was being phased out so I couldn't get parts for it 'officially' even if I wanted to. But the extractor was still working fine. 6 years seems a little young, but I know things happen.

Edit because I went all ADHD on this post.
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Field strip means field strip.....what the army taught me to break down lol....that's common knwwdge.

Age of a fire arm means nothing it's the round count that matters. I average 100 rounds a week times 6 years.....so at least 25k maybe 30k thru it. Clean it with a reg field strip once a month that's it so it's no surprise that much gunk got behind the extractor......Anyway I cleaned behind the extractor and re assembled so we'll see if that fixes it. If not next step is replace the extractor and spring.
 
whacko said:
Field strip means field strip.....what the army taught me to break down lol....that's common knwwdge.

Age of a fire arm means nothing it's the round count that matters. I average 100 rounds a week times 6 years.....so at least 25k maybe 30k thru it. Clean it with a reg field strip once a month that's it so it's no surprise that much gunk got behind the extractor......Anyway I cleaned behind the extractor and re assembled so we'll see if that fixes it. If not next step is replace the extractor and spring.
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I bet if I asked 10 people to give me a step by step 'field strip', I'd get at least 7 different answers. It is a pretty simple procedure, but I bet we all do it a little different. For example: using dental picks, do you 'white glove' your gun when you clean? I use picks, but don't worry so much about carbon in places that really doesn't matter.
 
weekendracer said:
I bet if I asked 10 people to give me a step by step 'field strip', I'd get at least 7 different answers. It is a pretty simple procedure, but I bet we all do it a little different. For example: using dental picks, do you 'white glove' your gun when you clean? I use picks, but don't worry so much about carbon in places that really doesn't matter.
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I think your talking about 2 different things thinking they are 1 thing.

If you ask 100 vets the step by step to field strip a 1911 or m9 you'll get one answer lol

1. Field strip is disassembling a fire arm to the appropriate level that allows for cleaning in the field.

2. Wether you
use dental picks and "white glove" clean it or not has nothing to do woth field stripping.

Why this is relavent......what I did in removing the extractor is not part of field stripping.

You asked for more defined "field strip" definition.....and for a veteran like me.....that statement makes zero sense. There's only one way to field strip a 1911.....or an m9.....or now the m17.
 
whacko said:
I think your talking about 2 different things thinking they are 1 thing.

If you ask 100 vets the step by step to field strip a 1911 or m9 you'll get one answer lol

1. Field strip is disassembling a fire arm to the appropriate level that allows for cleaning in the field.

2. Wether you
use dental picks and "white glove" clean it or not has nothing to do woth field stripping.

Why this is relavent......what I did in removing the extractor is not part of field stripping.

You asked for more defined "field strip" definition.....and for a veteran like me.....that statement makes zero sense. There's only one way to field strip a 1911.....or an m9.....or now the m17.
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Dude, I've been around 100 vets who couldn't break down a M16 properly :P.
 
weekendracer said:
Dude, I've been around 100 vets who couldn't break down a M16 properly :P.
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I highly f***ing doubt that.....unless you only hang out with navy squids who never touch a rifle.

Any army or marine vet will know how to field strip an m16.
 
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