Buck Mark Quality?

The Buck Mark Standard has been giving me some problems with feeding, ejecting standard velocity rounds. I thought it had something to do with chamber fouling. I also had a couple of firing out of battery experiences with rounds looking like the one on the right









Got to looking at the pistol and then looked at a couple at the gun show and realized that the return spring guide rod was bent. I think it has been that way or getting slowly worse since I had the pistol. Apparently, one shouldn't ever remove the slide when cleaning the pistol. I may have bent the rod removing the slide or replacing the slide. However, I think I've been darned careful about removing and replacing the spring and rod.





I'm not sure I'm as thrilled as I was about Buck Mark quality.