Hi All, After saving money for a couple of months to buy something I've always wanted, I picked up a brand new blue Colt 1911 last friday. A Wiley Clapp government model. Got it home and field stripped it and gave it a good cleaning, everything seemed in order. My son and I headed to the range Saturday to try it out and things went south in a hurry. First shot at 10 yards was dead on the money but the empty shell casing flew straight back and hit me in the face. (Always wear your safety glasses kids) Figured it was just a fluke and kept shooting hoping things would smooth out. Got thru about 100 rounds of 3 different brands of factory ammo before I quit. Empties were flying everywhere, to the right, left, straight back into my face, a few landed on my head. A couple popped straight up, bearly clearing the ejection port. Got home and stripped the slide to see what was up. After removing the firing pin stop, the pin and spring I tilited the slide up and the extractor slid right out.Usually you have to work them out but this one was sloppy lose. I looked it over carefully and compared it to an extractor out of another gun.I tried to fit the other extractor and it required effort to insert it were as the colt extractor just slides in and out and jiggles around in the slide. Thought about buying a new one online and trying to tune it myself but really have no experience tuning one so with that in mind and a few other issues with the gun I decided to call Colt customer service. my gun is on its way back to Colt right now and their current turn around time is 30 days so another wait has begun. I'm confident Colt will make it right and I can't wait to get it back. This gun has a really nice trigger on it and may well be the best trigger I have ever felt on a new gun. It is also dead nuts accurate. Which is somewhat wasted on me cause I'm not.
This is the second 1911 I've bought this year and it's the second one to go back to the manufacturer for repairs.:cry: :banghead: :cuss: