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It all started Saturday night with a little cleaning of my new Limited gun. This would be my first match with the new to me gun and I wanted it to be in prestine shape. I broke it all down on the bench Saturday afternoon and cleaned up everything real good. I lubed it up and reassembled! Sunday morning came and I drove to EAPS range in s. Louisiana to one of my local ranges for a great, HOT day of shooting. Well all was well on the first stage except I had loaded one to many rounds in my mags and they didn't want to seat very well. Shuck one round and put a check by a lesson learned. Still didn't do that bad, 4th out of 12 on that stage. So, it's on to the next one. This stage started out seated behind the wheel of a make shift car w/ gun loaded inside the glove box. Cool!!! I hear beep, then I commence with the hose fest, after shooting about 12 shots, I reload and make my way through a door in the stage where another 12 shots await, but wait, as I start engaging the targets, I notice my slide not cycling very well. I slam the back of the slide with the palm of my weak hand and keep shooting away, but wait, it happened again.
I clear it, but wait, it happened again and again and again. 
After about 5-6 times of doing this, I am about to launch my new found love over the berm b/c by this time my blood pressure has raised by more than a few points and then the RO says, "Looks like you lost your extractor!" 
Dooh!!!!! My external extractor pin has worked its way from its lovely home and launched somewhere on stage 4 @ EAPS. Someone, ie...<ME> forgot to stake the pin back in. 
CHECK! Another lesson learned! So after unloading and showing clear, yes I had to shake the round from the barrel, I reholstered and went back to find my parts. I found my extractor, thankfully, but there was no way I would find the pin and tiny spring. So, I proceed to my range bag to retire my mags and head to the safe area to ungun myself and call it a day. Next time I will have a backup gun. Check another lesson learned. A friend of mine offered to let me shoot his backup gun, but it would not fit onto my 012 holster. Thanks anyway Joel! Well, I have chocked all this up as lessons learned and hopefully not have these happen again. After a long ride back home beating myself up for stupidity, I've come to the conclusion that a crappy day shooting is still better than a good day at work! 
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), I always shoot a few rounds with it in practice before the match so I'm sure everything works well. And before major matches, I clean it the day before my last practice session before the match. At least you have learned a valuable lesson.