Kimber feeding issues

[Fishnbeer]

I stripped the slide again and pushed a round in it, I think it is a little too tight. Maybe the extractor came way tighter from the factory and the recoil spring was strong enough to overcome it but now the recoil spring has lost a little tension and cant overcome the extractor?



Im going to tweak the extractor and see what happens. I can always bend it back, right?

 

[Yetiultimate]

Hard to say definitively from that pic but you might want to look at the 3 important radii on the extractor claw. I recently had a pistol that had feed issues related to that. After a little light file work it functions 100% now.

 

[AR15barrels]

I stripped the slide again and pushed a round in it, I think it is a little too tight. Maybe the extractor came way tighter from the factory and the recoil spring was strong enough to overcome it but now the recoil spring has lost a little tension and cant overcome the extractor?

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Im going to tweak the extractor and see what happens. I can always bend it back, right?

You are shooting blindfolded.
That extractor is not even radiused so start there.
Then check the extractor lift.
You can do this with the slide off the pistol by pushing a cartridge into the breechface and measuring the extractor travel.
If there is too much extractor travel, you build up weld on the extractor's stop pad and re-cut the stop for 0.010" travel.
Do these before bending the extractor.

 

[Fishnbeer]

I bought a new recoil spring. Same weight, from Kimber. Old one on right, new on left

 

[Yetiultimate]

Old one has plenty of life left. I’ve replaced some that were nearly 3/4” compressed and functioned fine. I still think the extractor is the issue here

 

[AR15barrels]

Old one has plenty of life left. I’ve replaced some that were nearly 3/4” compressed and functioned fine. I still think the extractor is the issue here

This.
Spring looks almost new.
Too much extractor lift or too much tension combined with too little radius is the problem.