P7 said:
The new barrel is working well. No more extraction failures. However, it will not reliably feed Golden Sabers. It's fine with Hornady hollow points, Silvertips and fmj. Do you think polishing the throat and chamber might help it digest Golden Sabers? Or am I better off leaving it alone and going with everything but Golden Sabers?
pass on the golden sabres, mine will not feed them either. the reason is your golden sabres are hitting the inside of the slide lock lever and throwing the round off course as it tries to enter the chamber. I am suprised you are not getting premature slide lock opening even with the sabres. Mine would lock the slide open , not all the time but enought to tell me to forget about the sabres.
I have went to the corbon 90 grain hp and they work fine. I think those 102 grain sabres are just to big to work perfectly. You could file back the inside of the slide lock lever as I did to make my sabres work but now every once in awhile it will not lock open on the last round either, ,so I think the best is to move on from the sabres and go with the other 100 good brands of defense stuff out there.
Now if indeed you just ar ein love with the sabres 102 grain, then file back the slide stop until it clears and once loaded the gun willwork perfectly every time and unles syou carry a spare magazine, u need not worry about the slide locking open either on the last round, or also get another slidle lock lever and leave it alone and just pop it in when going to the rang eto shoot your junk practice ammo.