Originally Posted by
mizer67
I did remove all of the internals trying to get the slide off of the frame. I know you can't see that in the picture, but the striker, backplate, ejector depressor plunger and spring, extractor and firing pin block are all out of the slide. There shouldn't be anything in the fire control group holding the gun out of battery at this point, but it still won't fully cycle and return to battery and unfortunately, I can't field strip the gun like this to figure out what's the matter.
Believe me I cycled the slide vigorously as well as beat on the rear of the slide to try to get it to return fully. It won't budge.