Hank, we did drop the slide on it, but round didn't feed completely into chamber which resulted in jamming up the whole works... couldn't re-cycle because the extractor had hold of the stuck round's rim.
I dropped the mag, pressed on the back end of the extractor to see-saw it off the rim, dropped the slide again, no dice.
Had to pull the top end, remove the bbl. and tap out the round with a dowel.
I would
not have wanted to fire this round as it loaded...
- it only fed about 7/8 into chamber
- we were then sitting at my friend's dining room table!

Haven't had time to re-examine everything yet, work and such, but this isn't over and it's definitely not going unresolved.

My buddy's just as stubborn as I am!
