Have an EAA Witness in the shop. Owner bought factory new slide and barrel and installed it. Brought it in complaining of stovepipes. Fired the pistol and found that it always stove pipes when it ejects. Round will hold if you put it in the slide and shake it around, but empties always get dropped when the slide and bolt separate.
Several odd things about the gun. Barrel is marked 9mmx19. When I drop a round in the barrel, it headspaces off the shoulder of the cartridge – that seems correct. But you can rattle the round around in the barrel – must be at least .001 oversized. Also, barrel has no hood like others in the family (CZ-75). And, the cartridge sticks out, unsupported, a frighteningly LONG ways out of the chamber. There is a cut in the rear of the slide on this family – there is a metal stud that sticks up near the hammer – rises in kind of a semi-circle and has a slight flat at the top. I’m used to seeing the slide fit snugly over this on other models, but this particular slide has an extra step in that curved surface – I think I have seen that kind of step on .45 slides.
Would much appreciate some help here, can’t find any sort of slide specs for the 9mm model. Are there different models of slides and frames?
Don’t quite know what to make of the whole thing…..
001” is nothing. If it was .015 I would worry. Extractor holds. Sooooo–may be that your ejector is just ticking the extracting empty and raking it off of the extractor but not ejecting it. IE your ejector is too low and or negative. Also possibly your extractor angle in incorrect–could be wrong in several directions. Also, I have no idea what metal pin-stud-is. Anyway, don’t sweat the small stuff. Concentrate on the extractor and ejector–make sure they are correctly fitted and shaped. If your cases aren’t bulging or blowing out, it isn’t sticking out too far.
