Retro Commando pistol (UPDATE)

[Bill Hollinger]

Okay, I went out today and fired a number of one shot from the magazine drills and it functioned flawless on five different magazines. One round in the magazine fire and the bolt holds open. After doing this a number of times I put a full Colt magazine, one I had done one shot drills with, and it jammed on the first round. Failure to eject resulting in a double feed. The empty case still on the bolt with the live round trying to feed from underneath. I cleared the jam and fired the remaining 29 rounds without a problem. I fired three more 30 round magazines with the same rounds and had no issues at all (119 rounds). I thought maybe, just maybe it needed to work itself in but that all changed quick. Figuring the jam problem was done I loaded five rounds into each of the five 20 round Colt magazines I had with me to sight the gun in. The first magazine went great. The second jammed the forth round in as did the rest. I got the gun sighted in and at 25 yards it's perfect! During all this I changed the gas rings, extractor, extractor spring and cleaned and inspected the bolt and bolt carrier. Nothing to be seen!

If I get a chance this weekend I will swap out the BCG with a known working gun and give that a shot. Otherwise, I'll wait for the heavier buffers and test them.

Side note: the ejected casing land at about 2:00 O'clock from aiming point and out about 15 feet.