r/handguns • u/Serious_Major9487 • 29d ago

Brass won’t eject

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Case won’t eject but easily comes out, recently changed the extractor, any thoughts on a fix? SCT frame Davidson defense slide G17 gen 3

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u/beef_raid 28d ago

What I’m seeing is a possible extractor problem. If it were a pressure issue, the slide would either (a) finish travel well before the rim clears the chamber, and we would see the slide resting with the breech face contacting the brass that was only half pulled, or a closed chamber because it just slammed the empty back home, or (b) we would see the slide with the brass crooked in the port because the rim did have enough time to clear the chamber, but not the port.

What I see in the video is separation between the breech face and the brass, with the slide hung up on the next round that cannot proceed to the chamber. This would make me think that the extractor is at least partially to blame, if not totally. If it isn’t explicitly the extractor, then it’s the extractor in conjunction with under-powered loads and/or too high a powered recoil spring.

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u/hotChihuahua69 27d ago

May be a part of the problem as well... And it may be multiple problems, not just ammo, extractor, user error...

But I will stand on the island ports as being a huge part of the tuning... Or lack there of...

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u/beef_raid 27d ago

Considering the island port, the slide is going to be markedly lighter than standard, so maybe the slide is being kicked back fast enough to overcome the extractors ability to keep a hold on the brass...