Extractor issue?
Bought the 5” eclipse and took it straight to the range. Had multiple stovepipes in 200 rounds. Also the screws on the rear sight plate yeeted. RMA’d to Kimber. They did the following:
Replaced thumb safety with new blended one and adjusted trigger over travel (paid for new safety and noted trigger rattle). Replaced extractor, refinished feed ramp and breech face, reamed and polished chamber. They test fired 3 mags of 115gr and 1 mag of 147gr. Cleaned, oiled and sent back to me.
Installed my optic and went back to the range tonight. No issues while sighting the optic with roughly 50 rds of 124gr. Once I started shooting “for real” I started to have failures to return to battery. At first it was maybe 1 round per mag but by the end of the session I was getting multiple back-to-back failures like in this video (please excuse my trigger discipline on some of the slide taps - I was frustrated and let that slip).
I was very careful not to ride the slide with my thumbs (I know you can’t really see with the angle). I don’t have the world’s best grip/form but I’ve shot a lot of guns over the past few months while shopping for my next buy and didn’t have issues with any of them. So I want to say it’s the wand and not the wizard but I’m open to criticism.
I shot about 350-400 rds of Monarch and Blazer 115gr. 100 rds of PMC 124gr. 50 rds Winchester 147gr subsonic. All ammo types had the same issue.
One time I press checked and there was a round sitting in the chamber, not held by the extractor. Wondering is there’s an issue with the new extractor they installed? Tension? Something else? I placed a dummy round into the extractor when I got home and it seems fine - though I’m not an expert.