buffing feed ramps?
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Very carefully and only if required. If you're not having feeding issues, I'd just leave it alone. A bad polishing job can make a reliable feeding gun into a nightmare.
If you do need to polish your ramps, pay very close attention to the feed ramp angle/distance to your barrel's throat.
I use a Dremel with a felt wheel and Fitz polish.
If you do need to polish your ramps, pay very close attention to the feed ramp angle/distance to your barrel's throat.
I use a Dremel with a felt wheel and Fitz polish.
They don't need to be all shiny and mirror like to work well. If its smooth with no tooling marks then it's as it is supposed to be. If you can rub a fingernail over it and it drags then it may be a candidate for polishing.
Same here, works well.
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I use the tip of a bullet followed by the tip of the next bullet in the magazine. Eventually it will be nice and polished and you'll have fun "buffing" it. 
I've actually never felt the need to do it with any of my pistols.
Are you having feeding issues with one of your pistols or just spending too much time on the internet and not enough time shooting?
I've actually never felt the need to do it with any of my pistols.
Are you having feeding issues with one of your pistols or just spending too much time on the internet and not enough time shooting?
What he said. If it's a new pistol you'll be surprised how shine it'll be in couple 100 roundsI use the tip of a bullet followed by the tip of the next bullet in the magazine. Eventually it will be nice and polished and you'll have fun "buffing" it.
I've actually never felt the need to do it with any of my pistols.
Are you having feeding issues with one of your pistols or just spending too much time on the internet and not enough time shooting?
Going by your other post for 1911 recoil springs, are we talking about the same 1911 here?
Is your barrel ramped? Lock your slide back and check the feed ramp on the frame to the throat or ramp on the barrel. If the barrel's ramp/throat is extending beyond the feed ramp on the frame, you got probs. Did you buy this used or first owner?
This is good:
This, not so much (notice the barrel overhanging the feed ramp):
Just 3-4 minutes with a felt tip and Fitz will have it pretty slicked up.
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here is my problem.
this only happens while firing if you use weak ammo like 115g stuff but with my 147s it only happens if you use the slide stop on a fresh magazine instead of pulling the slide back to chamber the round. and also its always in the same spot on the left side feed ramp. and if you push forward on the back slide the round will go in.
see the photo i tryed to draw were the round sticks..
this only happens while firing if you use weak ammo like 115g stuff but with my 147s it only happens if you use the slide stop on a fresh magazine instead of pulling the slide back to chamber the round. and also its always in the same spot on the left side feed ramp. and if you push forward on the back slide the round will go in.
see the photo i tryed to draw were the round sticks..
...dunno, but double stack mags are problematic if not either factory originals (with no Tomfu<kary imposed on them) or high end mags.
On polishing, I didn't have flitz handy so I used toothpaste on the dremmel felt wheel for a .45 1911! The whitening kind. It worked pretty good, but flitz would be faster.
On polishing, I didn't have flitz handy so I used toothpaste on the dremmel felt wheel for a .45 1911!
The whitening kind. It worked pretty good, but flitz would be faster.Excellent, thanks for the info.
