I have experienced problems with this Ed Brown since I’ve had it. It used to be after a couple boxes of bullets, it would FTF. The bullet would be pressed straight against the ramp and a “tap” would send it forward.
Last night it was shooting good. But the ejection is everywhere.
It will eject forward, backward and even a little weak ass 2 ft up and land on my forearm. But generally weak ejection.
I always felt the Spring was way to strong in this gun, but I was told, ED BROWN knows what they are doing. Anyway, I want to buy a new spring. What lb spring would you guys try? Any other thoughts.
Oh yea, its a 4.25 barrel. Not full sized. And I’ll never own another.
Without more info such as ammo type and the fact that it’s been doing it “since you’ve had it”, I’d say replacing the recoil spring would not be the next prudent step.
I believe a 4.25 Cmdr length barrel is a 17 lb spring. I’d stock up on them since the replacement interval is 1500 rds on a 5" with a 16 lb spring and about 500 pn an officers (3.5"). The shorter the slide the quicker they wear out.
Although the Colt factory Officers seems to hold up for quite awhile 1000 rds it’s a dual spring set up. I finally switched mine to a flat wire spring since Wolff and Wilson’s replacement springs are only a single spring.
Not being ‘Ed Brown’ it sounds like an extractor that needs alittle fine tuning having difficulty sliding over the rim coupled with a weak recoil spring but hard to tell without the pistol in front of me.
Check the inside of the mag feed lips for burrs.
Check for a burr on the breech face at the firing pin hole.
Check the tension on the extractor and adjust as needed.
Extractor clocking, insufficient extractor tension, excessive extractor tension, chipped extractor, loose firing pin stop, loose ejector, chipped ejector, weak recoil spring or any combination of one or more of those problems or possibly something I didn’t think of.
I contacted Ed Brown, they said you pay to send it in. I said, its my last Brown. Cheap fuckin Dicks. 2+K and they want me to pay to fix the gun. Not industry standard.
Ordered another spring, my first attempt, its the simplest. I’ll keep you posted.
Check the mainspring. My buddy and I just had this conversation in which is $5,000 bullseye gun wasn’t feeding worth a shit and couldn’t get the maker to help him out. He noticed how hard it was to pull back the hammer so he cut a couple coils off of it and it runs like a champ now.
before you send it in, can you take some pics of the frame, from the top? I’ve heard that Ed Brown is doing what LB is doing to make commanders: cutting gov’t model frames’ dustcovers. the recoil seat location could be wrong.
just snapped this pic. on the left is a colt commander, on the right, a LB commander. notice the length of the frame rail, and the location that the guide rod sits? well, the LB is just a cut down gov’t. and the recoil assembly has less room to operate. I have heard comments by both Jason Burton, and John Harrison, that they’ve had to recut these in Les Baers. Just last week, a friend told me his Ed Brown was done the same way.
Your first post implies that you have had this gun for a while now, and are just now getting around to wanting it fixed.
Smaller companies don’t always cover shipping back for repairs, but most of them will reimburse that cost if it is a legitimate problem with the way the gun was built.
Could have a couple of issues going on. Given the FTF, the idea of replacing the recoil spring seems valid. If that doesn’t work, mag springs are another thing to check. On the issue that OP reports “ejection is everywhere,” I’d agree with checking the extractor tensioning.
