p11 ejector

[oldhippie]

My ejector broke and KT sent one and I replaced it, today I went to the range and put around 150 rds through it, when I cleaned it I found that the ejector was bent. I straighten it but I wonder when this one will break.

[TucsonMTB]

It seems like every couple of years or so, Kel-Tec has P-11 ejector problems. Before I sold mine and started shooting 1911's for fun, rather than the P-11, the hot setup was to file a little material off the end to ensure that incoming rounds do not smack it around too badly as they come out of your magazine. That's probably still worth doing. Ask Kel-Tec to send you a couple of spares, with spare pins. They are usually pretty good about doing that, especially if you have one break or bend.

I used to have a picture to illustrate the trimming process, but it seems to have disappeared. Sorry!

[oldhippie]

How much did you trim off ? BTW thanks for the info.
I cut off about 1/8" hope that wasn't too much.

[TucsonMTB]

That sounds about right. As I recall, the lower edge could be filed a bit to provide clearance without significantsly reducing the over all length nearer to the top edge.

With spares coming free from Kel-Tec, you have room to experiment.

[TucsonMTB]

Well, I just searched the forum and elsewhere. It was a great trip down memory lane. We used to have a lot of dedicated shooters on the board. The general opinion seems to be that trimming an 1/8" is about right.

It also seems like an ejector every 500 - 700 rounds was/is the going rate of consumption. To be honest, one of the reasons my very classy stainless P-11 went "bye bye" was ejectors breaking. Admittedly, that was back when I thought it was a range toy and would put hundreds of rounds through it in the course of week. Silly me!

These days, we have other pistols (1911's and target 22's) for range toys, so a P-11 for carry would probably be cool. But, with a couple of P-3AT's almost always in a pocket somewhere, that job is now taken.

Here's a picture of the old girl before I sold it to a guy from nearby Phoenix for his wife to carry, along with her more slender replacement.

[mr surveyor]

I never experienced any problems with my old P11, particularly nothing related to the ejector. Bought it used (and it had been shot a good bit) in 2004, and in the year or two I had it I must have put a couple thousand rounds through it myself. It is possible that my ejector was already worn down that 1/8th inch by the time I bought it Oh, well, mrs surv still has the P32 that my P11 was traded for

you guys are making me want another P11 to keep in my bug-out bag.


surv

[jclark]

are you loading a round through the top , to top it off rather than , slide and then take the mag out and top it off

[oldhippie]

are you loading a round through the top , to top it off rather than , slide and then take the mag out and top it off

I fill the mag and then rack the slide to put one in the pipe and then remove the mag and top it off. So always have 10 in the mag and one in the pipe.

[mr surveyor]

not many folks load "through the top", at least not those that understand the workinigs of a pistol. Depending on the model you could either cause a lot of unnecessary wear to the extractor or possibly even break the extractor.


surv

[corsairgunner]

It also seems like an ejector every 500 - 700 rounds was/is the going rate of consumption.

i would definitely say they fixed that problem. every other week i shoot 50 to 100 rounds. sometimes more depending on who is shooting with me. i would say mine is somewhere in the 2000 round neighborhood now with nothing going wrong besides 1 failure to feed early on that was caused by the magazine not seating properly (i needed to shave the well). i did notice some shaved metal on the slide though last time i cleaned it but couldn't see where it came from.

anyway you might have just been unlucky with a flawed ejector.