I am thinking a $3000 1911 (or 5k) doesn't need to have the extractor tuned. In that slow mo, one sure looked like it was going to stove pipe. I wonder how much cutting away changed ejection. I wonder if they cannibalized more than one to make it work right.
There were a couple shots of him pumping rounds out without any issues, so maybe the super-slow-mo was fooling me. It was really interesting to watch how "long" (in S.S.M.) it took for the recoil to work its way through the pistol to his hand. All the energy goes into the slide first and then it hit his hand. The apparent stove-piping may be normal but handling the recoil well (as he was doing) may prevent stove-piping entirely.
I remember trying out a .380 ACP pistol with my wife, and she wound up stove-piping it fairly regularly but I never did, and I've got to think that it's because I wasn't as limp in the wrist as she was.
She never stove-piped the .45 ACP 1911 though.
I've got a Smith with an external extractor, and I prefer it. To my mind, if something's adjustable but doesn't need to be, that's just asking for trouble, and the external extractor has never failed for me --thousands and thousands of rounds without any issues.
I've had a few F.T.F. but it was the mag.
Chip McCormick Power Mags have been perfect. I've heard equally good things about Wilson mags, but have no experience with them.
DJ
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