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[dogtag69]

don't know much about 1911 bought a SR1911 lwt cmd have about 100 rds thru. it after I cleaned it I put a empty mag in it as I went to put it in the safe I racked it just to make sure it was empty and it locked up the slide stop is stuck in the take down notch I cant pull the stop down mag was stuck also I finally got the mag out works fine with mag out or load mag in is this normal.
thanks

 

[1911Tuner]

No. The slidestop elevator shelf on the follower popped over the slidestop lug. It's most likely a magazine problem. Less likely...but possible...a slidestop problem.

 

[dogtag69]

Thanks I tried a couple of diff. mags they work better but still a little glitch when it gets to the notch hangs up a little bit but goes past it

 

[loaded round]

I have both a Ruger 1911 and a Ruger 1911 CDR-LWT and they both lock open empty with a magazine inserted. A while back Ruger replaced my magazine with new ones, and to this day I can only drop the slide on either of them by dropping the empty magazine slightly while releasing the slide release. No problems at all dropping the slide on a loaded mag. If you use a non Ruger magazine, such as a Colt, it works perfectly when you drop the slide on an empty magazine. Conclusion: Ruger's Italian manufactured magazines are made slightly different than American made mags and aren't designed to allow you to drop the slide with an empty mag inserted. I learned to live with the Ruger mags, but still not happy about them. Thank God that I do have a dozen or so G.I. (Colt?) magazines that do function properly in my two Ruger 1911's.

 

[Cheesewhiz]

I use MecGar magazines for my 1911's, that's an Italian company and they work exactly like Loaded Round describes on any brand of 1911 that I have tried them in.

 

[wayned]

I have the same "problem" with my SR 1911. I called Ruger and was told that lever is not a "slide release" it's a slide stop. Seems like Ruger uses stronger mag springs than most other mag manufacturers. I guess you have to get used to operating it like it says in the manual or get different mags. If you really bear down on it, it will release but you have to just about jump on it. I've choose to follow the method Ruger states in the manual.

 

[1911Tuner]

I called Ruger and was told that lever is not a "slide release" it's a slide stop.

Of course it's a slide release. Why else would it protrude from the frame and have checkering or serrations machined into it?

It performs four other functions if we ignore the takedown process.

It's a cam for the lower barrel lug to use to get the barrel into the slide.

It's an anchor for the link to use to get the barrel out of the slide.

It's a slide stop.

It's a slide lock, that holds the slide open when the magazine is empty.

 

[wayned]

1911Turner - Read the manual and see what it says. I agree with you but that's not what Ruger says.

 

[1911Tuner]

1911Turner - Read the manual and see what it says. I agree with you but that's not what Ruger says.

So, after producing the 1911 for a little over 4 years, Ruger knows more about John Browning's pistol than John Browning did?

Ruger and various experts who say that it's not a release have a right to their opinions...but if it hadn't been intended to be used as a release, it would have been easier, faster, and cheaper to simply machine it flat instead of going to the trouble to whittle it to the fairly complex shape that it is, and then take the extra step to give it a more skid-proof texture.

 

[dakota1911]

I have noticed that with a number of different new 1911s. It is easier to drop an empty mag a bit so you can release the slide stop.

 

[1911Tuner]

I have noticed that with a number of different new 1911s. It is easier to drop an empty mag a bit so you can release the slide stop.

They're all like that. With the empty magazine locked in, you're fighting the mag spring with the slide stop.

 

[Yawn]

1911Turner - Read the manual and see what it says. I agree with you but that's not what Ruger says.

So, after producing the 1911 for a little over 4 years, Ruger knows more about John Browning's pistol than John Browning did?

Ruger and various experts who say that it's not a release have a right to their opinions...but if it hadn't been intended to be used as a release, it would have been easier, faster, and cheaper to simply machine it flat instead of going to the trouble to whittle it to the fairly complex shape that it is, and then take the extra step to give it a more skid-proof texture.

I see your point here. It is a lever that is intended to release the slide... Therefore it should be called a slide release. However, Ruger differentiates it from the normal nomenclature of slide release due to the fact that on most of their semi-automatic handguns you cannot, with an empty magazine, use one hand to release the slide. On many of their handguns, you cannot use one hand to release the slide even with a loaded magazine. My first SR series SR 9 was exactly that way. My SR 45 however, we will release the slide one handed with a loaded magazine. Certainly not the norm I do have the ability to be able to do this one-handed with a full magazine acceptable.

 

[WIL TERRY]

LETS SEE HERE...YOU PUT A HUNDRED ROUNDS THOUGH THE PISTOL, and it worked just hunky-dory fine. YOU took it apart and cleaned it all out, put it ALL back together, and now it does NOT work all that fine. I would suggest your taking it all apart again and this time make sure you put it all back together with ALL parts pressed firmly into their respective positions.
And so it goes...

 

[cas6969]

It's been three months, I figure he's got it squared away by now.

 

[pruger45]

I use several brands of mag in all of my 1911's (sr1911 included) with no problems whatsoever!

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

Over the past years, with informal discussions with S&W on their first 1911 and the same with Dan Wesson, same firearm, I was told that they do not want the slide slamming against an empty chamber..........That is the reason for the slide stop not to be used as a release simply by putting pressire on it as you would with a Govt 1911 or A1. When I had difficulty releasing with the Ruger 1911, Ruger Svc told me the same thing and that was 3 years ago.........I do not fuss about it........ 8)

 

[any ruger]

Hawkeye28 you are right I never use the slide lock on any of my guns to release the slide. movie pics again.