Don't give up that gun because it won't feed right!!!! When i started shooting my springfield armory 1911 with the speer 200gr bullets with the very large soup bowl hollow points they would jam on the feed ramp on the bluing it acted like a brake the bullets would just stop dead when they hit the feed ramp. I took the gun apart and thru a series of sanding the feed ramp to remove the bluing and then polishing it to a mirror finish the gun now feeds any hollow point flawlessly. I have heard rumors of 9mm's doing the samething too so i took out my Star BM in 9mm and polished the ramp to a mirror finish. Then i took out my new CZ85B and when i started polishing the ramp I noticed rough horizontal maching marks on the ramp. While the gun performed flawlessly the last time out with Wolf 9mm FMJ ammo I figured I would polish the feed ramp anyway before i put hollow points in it. Now with any new pistol i get the feed ramp will be polished right away wether it sees hollow points or not. This is the only flaw I have had with any pistol and by polishing the feed ramp it improves the reliability of the gun with any ammo. You can start off with a coarse sandpaper like 150grit and work it down to 400grit and you can use a simichrome polish after that. The trick is to put masking tape on a pencil to match the radius of the ramp then when it matches it perfectly take one wrap off to make up for the thickness of the sandpaper then hold the paper on the pencil near the tape then go in the direction of the way the bullet feeds and do smooth even strokes matching the angle of the ramp perfectly till the bluing is gone with the 150grit paper then switch to the finer paper till the machining marks are all gone and its smooth then use the simichrome polish to finish it. If the feed ramp is in the pistols lower body. On my CZ its different the feed ramp is part of the barrel which is no biggie its very much the same process. Just take your time and do it right.
Now i had one 80 goverment colt 45acp in nickle I had remove the nickle plating and smooth and polish it out to make it feed correctly too. I lightly stoned the nickle till it was completely removed then i polished the ramp. And again it fed properly after that too.
If the gun still won't feed properly if the ramp is in the lower frame of the pistol you can also change the angle of the feed ramp too, with the gun together and opened up(last shot locked open slide) you can take a small scriber and mark were the edge of the barrel is. Then take your sanding sleeve with the coarse paper and sand to that line to match the orginal ramp to blend it in at the sametime. Then switch to the finer grit paper then to the polish. Its not hard to do. BigBill
Last edited on Sun May 1st, 2005 10:51 PM by BigBill
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