Hopefully you can get things worked out when you return. Let us know how it goes and may you have a safe trip.

 

Thanks. I really like the SA 35. I'm sure I can make it work. Just ran out of time.

 

Only problem I have had with mine is installing the recoil spring after strip & clean. Old guy and tight springs don't match very much.

 

I know that feeling Sir! When I first stripped mine at the dealer I struggled with that spring.

 

Try Remington Golden Sabre 115 or 124 gr. I have found if your gun will feed hardball reliable, it should also be reliable with the HP Golden Sabre. Their ogive is very similar to hardball. They are also a very good defensive bullet.

 

The Gold Dot 124 +P is listed as a "JHP" bullet. I have other pistols that FTF on JHP rounds. Try an FTX round. The FTX bullet is a HP that is filled (in layman terms). The FTX has a similar profile to a FMJ and makes feeding easier.
Hornady Critical Defense cleared up all the FTF on my pistols.
(Note: sometimes polishing the feed ramp will make this better also but not permanently.)

 

Thanks for the tips guys. I've also used Hornady Critical Defense in it with no issue as @hike suggested.

Now that I think about it, this might be the only +P ammo I tried in it. Maybe the easy answer is go with Hornady, instead of being hard headed about it.

 

The Browning and FN 9mm High Powers are not rated for +P ammo though they will shot +P a lot of +P will beat them up. The SA-35 is supposed to be +P rated. Owning 5 Browning HPs and 2 other HP clones I know the HP design very well. I would suspect the the slide is moving too fast with the +P rounds. You can try a higher power recoil spring (Wolff Springs) to slow the slide down. But that may give you issues with normal or lower power rounds. You have got to remember that John Moses Browning started designing the HP in 1914-1935. He died before completing the final design and Dieudonné Joseph Saive of Fabrique Nationale. In 1935 9mm was considered a high pressure pistol round. There was no conception of +P rounds. The SA-35 being a clone of the HP, with some parts compatibility with the P-35, it has some of the design flaws of the original.

 

The Browning and FN 9mm High Powers are not rated for +P ammo though they will shot +P a lot of +P will beat them up. The SA-35 is supposed to be +P rated. Owning 5 Browning HPs and 2 other HP clones I know the HP design very well. I would suspect the the slide is moving too fast with the +P rounds. You can try a higher power recoil spring (Wolff Springs) to slow the slide down. But that may give you issues with normal or lower power rounds. You have got to remember that John Moses Browning started designing the HP in 1914-1935. He died before completing the final design and Dieudonné Joseph Saive of Fabrique Nationale. In 1935 9mm was considered a high pressure pistol round. There was no conception of +P rounds. The SA-35 being a clone of the HP, with some parts compatibility with the P-35, it has some of the design flaws of the original.

My suspicion as well. Thanks.

 

I think the white buffer and the elongated spring, were installed to take +P rounds.

 

A lot of pistols are particular of what hollowpoints it likes. Speer gold dots have a flatter facing, and have been a problem in some pistols. I have shot the Winchester Ranger T 127gr +P+ hollowpoints, with no issue, in my Springfield SA-35. Didn't shoot a lot of them. Too expensive.

 

I got a bit of a deal on the Gold Dots and bought 300 rounds. But yes, I can't afford to shoot them at the range either. I'll just use a different type in the SA35. My preference is to have a single defensive 9mm round. But it is just a preference. I still like the gun a lot.