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
