Old trick

by JLF , Sunday, January 08, 2012, 21:48 (4651 days ago) @ Sarge

This may be old news to everybody, including Ed Brown, but at the bottom of the notch on the extractor that the case feeds up into, it can help a lot to knock that sharp edge off with a file, and then polish it bright. This creates a bit of a "feed ramp" to help the case seat in the extractor as it rides up from the mag. Almost part two of the same operation is to polish the breech face as bright as you can make it, and deburr any ridges around the firing pin hole. The case makes a hard and fast ride under slide pressure to get where it needs to be, and can use all the help you can give it.

JLF