After reading posts on the 1911 I have decided to join the 1911 world.
I picked up a Rock Island Arms 1911A1-FS this week. I also picked up a couple boxes of American Eagle 230 gn fmj and a Chip McCormick mag
First thought was , dam this is heavy. LOL. Got home and read the directions for disassembly. Then re-read them.Then struggled mightily to take this thing down. Thinking that there must be an easier way to do this. Off to YouTube I go. Most of the videos showed the take down method described in the manual and I will tell everyone here and now, the guns in those videos were taken down with a ton less effort than what I was trying do with mine. So I followed these videos and the same frustrating problem of trying to depress the guide spring far enough to rotate the barrel bushing.
It wasn't till I came upon a cleaning video that I got my eureka moment. It showed removing the slide with everything in place. So I did that and found I could depress the spring with very little effort and thus finish disassembling the pistol. For re-assembly I did all the slide parts first then attached it back to the frame. This pistol has a full length guide rod. Does that play a factor in the difficulty take down and putting it back together?
My question is, By disassembling that way will I cause any harm to my pistol? It function tests just fine afterwards.
So any whoooooo, All cleaned, lubed and re-assembled. Off to the range I go. With stock mags it functioned perfectly. With the CM mag it would fail to feed on the 7th and 8th rounds.
Accuracy as to be expected from a new shooter.....Not pretty.
I did step out to 25 yds for the 25 Yard Freestyle Accuracy.....let's play a game thread. I'll post a pic of the target shortly. A lot of room for improvement. ;-)
The gun is nice and tight. Came with 2 mags and two sets of grips. One plain wood and the other a checkered hard rubber (maybe plastic) black grips.
I'm looking forward to improving my marksmanship with it.
HA
I picked up a Rock Island Arms 1911A1-FS this week. I also picked up a couple boxes of American Eagle 230 gn fmj and a Chip McCormick mag
First thought was , dam this is heavy. LOL. Got home and read the directions for disassembly. Then re-read them.Then struggled mightily to take this thing down. Thinking that there must be an easier way to do this. Off to YouTube I go. Most of the videos showed the take down method described in the manual and I will tell everyone here and now, the guns in those videos were taken down with a ton less effort than what I was trying do with mine. So I followed these videos and the same frustrating problem of trying to depress the guide spring far enough to rotate the barrel bushing.
It wasn't till I came upon a cleaning video that I got my eureka moment. It showed removing the slide with everything in place. So I did that and found I could depress the spring with very little effort and thus finish disassembling the pistol. For re-assembly I did all the slide parts first then attached it back to the frame. This pistol has a full length guide rod. Does that play a factor in the difficulty take down and putting it back together?
My question is, By disassembling that way will I cause any harm to my pistol? It function tests just fine afterwards.
So any whoooooo, All cleaned, lubed and re-assembled. Off to the range I go. With stock mags it functioned perfectly. With the CM mag it would fail to feed on the 7th and 8th rounds.
Accuracy as to be expected from a new shooter.....Not pretty.
I did step out to 25 yds for the 25 Yard Freestyle Accuracy.....let's play a game thread. I'll post a pic of the target shortly. A lot of room for improvement. ;-)
The gun is nice and tight. Came with 2 mags and two sets of grips. One plain wood and the other a checkered hard rubber (maybe plastic) black grips.
I'm looking forward to improving my marksmanship with it.
HA
