[icemonkey]

1 ) i guess i ll have to take it one step at a time and take the advice and don't mess whit the consistency

2) i polished my rails and slide already and its supper smooth and snappy but i had the problem before i did it .... lol. one thing i did notice is that it only happens on the first time i cock it with the slide and mag in (if i manually cock it no issues). the only weird part is once i pull the hammer down a bit to release the slide from being stuck, with the mag still in, the problem never comes back up. even when i swaps mags to reload and the hammer is still cocked problem does not come up and i have no issues. so that leaded me to believe your one point of hammer assembly

the only difference between mag being in and mag not being in, that i can think of, is that some pressure is put on the valve knocker causing movement in the whole hammer assembly causing the hammer to push slightly higher, but if that is true then why only that first initial one if i use the slide to cock it only?

one alternative i was thinking was that is was related to the grip safety prong on the leaf spring as i adjusted to try to reengage the grip safety but realized that its pointless to have it, but because of the adjustment, the tail of the grip safety is pushing on something in the assembly causing the issue