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Purchased a new Para Ord CCO and took it out to the range for break in. After around fifty rounds with factory ammo, the slide failed to close the last quarter inch, and was jammed in place. I couldn't pull the slide back either. It took a great deal of effort to close the slide and to fully chamber the round. The first pull of the trigger failed to ignite the primer. After hand cocking the hammer, the second pull set off the round and the pistol functioned normally. I have been unwilling to fire the pistol again because if the same problem occurs and I can't get the round to fire, I won't be able to send it anywhere with a jammed round in the chamber.

Any ideas as to the problem?

What ammo? Wolf?

If so, the lacquered case Wolf uses can gum up some guns.

Happened to my P13. I cleared the problem by carefully putting the front, lower edge of the slide against a corner of my wooden workbench, and pushing until the slide moved enough to extract the round by hand.

I'd disassemble it and look for burrs and/or broken parts. I had a 745 S&W that had something like that happen to it, and it was part of the slide flaking off and tying up the gun. It stopped doing it, I guess when all that was going to break off, did. I never really trusted that thing, after that........

Doc,

No flame intended here, but you made two big mistakes. The first was forcing the round to chamber. Always work to clear the jam - it's almost always the path of least resistance. A failure to feed can be 'innocent', or it can be the result of a piece of crud, a shard of brass, a piece of primer - all things that you don't want to force into the chamber.

The second mistake was firing the round. Whenever there's a odd jam or hint of a bad cartridge thoroughly check everything out before firing the pistol.

As to your original question, I would inspect the pistol and if everything checks out I wouldn't worry about it. I'd figure another couple 150 rounds are needed to break in the pistol.

Doc - I'm not surprised. I've had two PO's. Both never did work right even after a trip back to the factory. Needless to say they both have new homes. And if their new owners just look at them and don't shoot 'em they'll be happy.