Buckbrush may be onto something 
Is there an ejector in place? If so, is it binding on the slide? The Norinco spring is fine for factory ammo. A note - ANY sort of grip is OK - the gun is not reliable if you have to grip it like a vise. The extractor needs tuning for tension for best results. Another writer noted when he had ejection problems they were cured by changing mags. Hmmm - it wasn't necessarily the mags! If your extractor is loose, a mag with a stiff spring will help push the empty out and mask the problem. A test for proper extractor tension is to fire the gun (as Ljungmann suggested with the mag out. A weak grip by the extractor immediately shows up by ejecting empies out the mag well onto your shoe! Another symptom is the last empty out of the gun lying there on top of the mag...If that is happening to your 1911, time to check extractor tension!
Ljungmann, you and I spoke earlier and if needed, give me a call. It's likely something simple and very basic But first, lube the hell out of the gun, try that, then try firing with no mag, to eliminate that. We can safely say ammo is not the culprit. How cold was it? Cold oil (minus twenty or so...) will make these guns VERY sluggish. Do you have too much tension on the center sear spring leaf? Whan you hold the trigger back, you should be able to depress the disconnector by hand. If not, it really slows up the slide. If it actually butts up to the bottom of the disconnector, it can lock things up. This happens sometimes with Paras, as the slot that holds the sear spring in place is too low on them. A standard 1911 sear spring can really cause you grief in a Para Ordnance. Can you easily cycle the slide with the trigger pulled, hard? Is the slide stop binding? Try cycling the slide with the slide stop out (don't try firing it like that You need to paly CSI - eliminate as many things as you can, then call
Gunnar
www.armco-guns.com
Is there an ejector in place? If so, is it binding on the slide? The Norinco spring is fine for factory ammo. A note - ANY sort of grip is OK - the gun is not reliable if you have to grip it like a vise. The extractor needs tuning for tension for best results. Another writer noted when he had ejection problems they were cured by changing mags. Hmmm - it wasn't necessarily the mags! If your extractor is loose, a mag with a stiff spring will help push the empty out and mask the problem. A test for proper extractor tension is to fire the gun (as Ljungmann suggested with the mag out. A weak grip by the extractor immediately shows up by ejecting empies out the mag well onto your shoe! Another symptom is the last empty out of the gun lying there on top of the mag...If that is happening to your 1911, time to check extractor tension!Ljungmann, you and I spoke earlier and if needed, give me a call. It's likely something simple and very basic
But first, lube the hell out of the gun, try that, then try firing with no mag, to eliminate that. We can safely say ammo is not the culprit. How cold was it? Cold oil (minus twenty or so...) will make these guns VERY sluggish. Do you have too much tension on the center sear spring leaf? Whan you hold the trigger back, you should be able to depress the disconnector by hand. If not, it really slows up the slide. If it actually butts up to the bottom of the disconnector, it can lock things up. This happens sometimes with Paras, as the slot that holds the sear spring in place is too low on them. A standard 1911 sear spring can really cause you grief in a Para Ordnance. Can you easily cycle the slide with the trigger pulled, hard? Is the slide stop binding? Try cycling the slide with the slide stop out (don't try firing it like that You need to paly CSI - eliminate as many things as you can, then call Gunnar
www.armco-guns.com
