by FergusonTO35 » Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:48 am
Been shooting and carrying the Micro with perfect success since the trip to Yonkers, until last saturday. My best friend was shooting it and one empty round got wedged on top of the next round in the mag. We cleared it, and fired 30 more rounds without incident. Got home and disassembled it, looking for any problems. I found some crusty black fouling inside the hook of the extractor. This stuff was hard and baked on, effectively reducing the depth of the extractor hook. The fouling also was coating the very front of the extractor channel in the slide. Got it all clean with some diligent scrubbing, it's easy to see how this can become a problem. Being an older design, this pistol has a rather small extractor and the area where it resides is not very open, providing a good place for fouling to build up. On top of that, I shoot flammable dirt aka Bullseye powder in this pistol which means there will always be plenty of fouling to go around. For safety's sake I'm going to disassemble and clean the extractor on this pistol every 100 rounds or so, it's certainly easy enough to do.
"If magic is to be defined as the use of ineffective means to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must conclude that no society will ever be completely free from it." -Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 1971.