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[cman]

Can am you rock!
Dont sweat the trolls!

[hootguy]

my order was shipped promptly,,,packed well,,and got here in plenty of time,,,and CANAM's customer service guy Dan is awsome to deal with,,,

[Terapr0]

really hoping mine goes out today, I'm so impatient! Can't wait to get the new toy out to the range along with the Backpacker shotgun I picked up this morning from Corwin

[UNknownSUBject]

I can barely hit the broad side of a barn with the backpacker. But its darn fun to shoot.

[Hitzy]

Always good deals to be had at CanAm

[Mark-II]

My order came yesterday. Finally picked up one of those cheap 1911A1 pistols

Thanks for the spare grips, as the stock ones were broken.

Anyway, I wasn't expecting much. I tore it down and scrubbed everything with eds red, then I spent a few hours puttering away stoning the trigger bar, sear, disconnect, hammer hooks etc, to a decent level of polish. I'm a rank amateur at this so I was slow and cautious not to remove material.

Took down some of the razor sharp edges at the back of the frame, tweaked the sear spring, and had to stone a tiny amount off of the grip safety where the trigger was dragging on it at certain angles.

Cut a few coils from the mag release spring and lopped a few coils from the main spring.

Every part in this pistol is stock, save for the stocks, and it's going to stay that way.

When all is said and done I now have a crisp 4-4.5lb trigger.

I took it out tonight, not expecting much. Face it - the gun is a rattler, and there is play when I push down on the barrel hood, though not much.

After a few mags went through it I started cutting large ragged hole groups at my usual 12 yards or so. It got to the point that any larger grouping I blamed on myself.

This pistol shoots near as well as any other sub $1k 1911 I've shot, which tells me that I don't need a big money target pistol for the distances that I can shoot at.

In 100 rounds I had 2 failures to feed, which I blame on my Remington R1 mags, which cause problems in most pistols, and should be binned. No issues with other mags. I may polish the feed ramp cautiously, or just burnish it some. I shoot cast bullets. The recoil spring might get replaced sooner than later as well.

Thanks guys. I'm more than impressed with the cheapest 1911 in Canada. It does well for a nuttin-special mass produced service pistol.

I bought it because I wanted a 1911A1 with a blued finish, and it was the stupid-cheap option

[convergys2]

I finally got my order as well last night. It too was one of the inexpensive 1911's. I don't say cheap because I think the quality is OK, defiantly beater than cheap!.
I know, its been a few weeks since the sale so make sure to read on before blasting CanadaAmmo. Its not their fault that I just got it. In fact they were very accommodating. If you read through this thread, you will see that I didn't even have my RPAL when this sale was on. Because of this, they let me pay for it up front and then they kept it safe for me till I got my RPAL. (I know, "let me pay for it" ha ha kind of funny)

Anyways, it took a little over a month for my license to finally be approved and then CanadaAmmo was able to ship my rich in iron and fiber granola bars. Once I did get my license, I just let them know and they promptly shipped it.



As this is my first hand gun, I think the price was right for something that may get a little abused due to inexperience. I won't feel bad if I scratch it or something.

I just wanted to extend a big thanks to the staff at CanadaAmmo for accommodating me.

P.S. I have been saving up for the Canada Day sale. I hear its even better than this one