I just bought a brand new 1911 R1 Enhanced, Remington.
I bought it at a gun show, and before I bought it I asked the guy to disassemble the slide to check for issues. He struggled for a while and assembled it back together.
I then took it to the range today excited to shoot it. Behold, the slide wouldn’t budge. After a dozen tries I got it the slide to rack a load in, then I fired expecting it to go bang. It didn’t go bang. I wanted to empty the chamber so I could dissassemble and see what was going on. Load would not come out. After a dozen more tries, I got the chamber out and asked some of the guys working at the range to take a look at it.
Tried several different mags, different ammo, still the same issue. Anyone have any insight? I’m going to take it to the gunsmith tomorrow and call Remington as well.
Gun was in perfect working order before the guy disassembled it at the gun show, so I expected him to know how to put it back together without breaking anything…
If it seemed to work perfectly before you had it disassembled, why not disassemble and reassemble the slide yourself? That way you can be sure it is done correctly.
If you don’t know how to disassemble the slide, well you have to learn at some point, might as well be now.
If you suspect the slide is the problem, perhaps a picture would help. To save some one else the trouble of asking, was there any particular concern you had that would cause you to ask the seller to disassemble the slide?
This gun evidentally has the Series 80 style safety. I would focus attention on that.
In fact looking closer at your picture, the upper sear lever looks weird, like the nose is broken off, or is has been switched with the lower sear lever. That lever should not be up unless the trigger is pulled, that will lock up the slide and prevent firing. Just disassemble the frame and put it back together correctly. I don’t think Remington will warrant a mis assembled gun.
I wonder if the gun show sals man did it by forcing it togher or if it was some how missaligned and the firing broke it. I just messed with my series 80 for 10 min trying to figuar out how that happened. I just dont know. I bet Dave Berryhill knows
Contacted Remington CS.
Waited 5 minutes, Spoke to Frank. Without even a doubt they said they would send me a shipping label, and I should have it back in a week.
At least the CS was nice. Thumbs down to the Gun show guy. I think what happened was the firing pin plunger lever was not down when he tried to rack the slide back, causing the nose of it to break.
Well, I’ll post range reports when I get the chance.
That is exactly what happened… If you look at the back of the slide you’ll probably be able to see the place it hit. Many… many have been bent or broken that way… A new lever and you’ll be GTG… Ron
Will the slide have to be replaced as well? I’m hoping that its just the lever that has to be fixed. I’m seeing them online for like 4 bucks, local gunsmith is charging 50. So back to Remington it goes.
This is a painful, but very good first lesson for my first firearm.
Can you show us a pic about what your gunsmith was talking about? Frame and receiver are pretty much interchangeable. “Above the receiver” doesn’t make sense.
