Bought a new Browning Model 1911 in 380 ACP

[Tall]

Took it to the range yesterday. It is pretty accurate but had failure to fire with several PMC hardball rounds. Average was maybe 6 out of 8 in the magazine would fire. Several of the others failure to lock up. Some were duds with primer strikes with no results. Going to try my handloads they have to be better.

 

[Rez Exelon]

Hate to say it, but I had one of those and hated it. Wasn't going all the way into battery. Called Browning for support and they were like "oh yeah, send it in, we've got it, no worries." then tried to hold the gun hostage for $200 of charges (that they refused to provide a line item explanation for) after discovered it was a month past it's 5 years of coverage.

Fought them and their $50 "return without service done" charge. Got it back, and it wound up being the extractor being too tight. Once I sat down and messed with it I had it running flawlessly in relatively short order.

Once I confirmed it was functioning perfect I sold it off and swore I'd never own another Browning based on the experience.

Long story short, if you're having issues, check if the extractor is too tight and it's not locking up all the way.

 

[Tall]

Maybe the too tight extractor would explain the failure to go into battery for the couple rounds that did that but the primers on several rounds had firm strikes and they didn't go off so that is a bad primer. We are talking about 5 - 6 rounds - that is a lot.