It Figures.

Well...I shot the GSG 1911/22 yesterday.

I did some things that I should have known better about...so I ended up screwing the pooch.

Had about 4 stove pipes and twice that many failures to extract. By failure to extract, I mean when the trigger was pulled, the round was fired, but then the slide either never slid open/closed, or if it did, the spent case never got pulled out...because when I pulled the slide back manually, there sat the empty case with the next round either in place (or in a couple instances) trying to get into place.

Probably the crappy ammo (Federal Champ, Rem Golden...those are the only ones I had on me from yesterday, but I'll try different ones next time because it sounds like High Vel will be the order of the day)...

Also...could have been the cold. It's windy & below freezing temps and I used regular oil instead of synthetic (which I usually DO use in the winter)... Anyhow, I won't get a chance to go again until Saturday, now...and the forecast is STILL not my friend.

I'm gonna clean it again, I'll over lube it (which sounds like what's being suggested all over the gun boards), and use the synthetic stuff this time. I'll also try some better ammo. I should have known better...but honestly, the crappy dirty junk works fine in the revolvers, so that's why I even still had it with me...

Lesson learned.
I'm about 93% sure it was ammo/cold related.

The reason I say that is because (like I've said before) when I put this GSG on layaway, an acquaintance asked me if I wanted to borrow his to shoot, to see if I really liked it.
He'd had it for weeks and never took it out of the box... so I was the first one to shoot it (after I field stripped it and cleaned all the GI grease off of it.)
I used better ammo in it (Federal Bulk pack) and the weather was deceivingly "spring-like" (around 50)...it shot flawlessly and was a ton of fun.

So the differences were:
below freezing temps
Crappy ammo

I won't have a chance to run it again until the weekend...but I think I'm gonna pick up more CCI (I'm out) and maybe some Aguila, too. Somebody mentioned that, and I'd forgotten all about it. Aguila is more high vel too, which seems to be what people are saying works best. One guy said that it's stated in the manual...but I looked and I didn't see that. Maybe it's written in the section where it says you have to remove the hex screw or the area where it's stated that the spring is tapered and it should go back in with the wide end under the cap or you might bugger up your slide's function. Oh, that's right...it *doesn't* say that anywhere...