Before you pay to buy a new barrel and then pay to have it fitted to your gun I'd suggest you get a gunsmith to actually look at your barrel.
With handguns in general and especially with guns that shoot slower bullets like the .45acp it's nearly impossible to burn or wear out the bore. If your gun is shooting poorly or if it's having difficulty extracting the casings then it may be due to a barrel bulge or simply cleaning wear at the muzzle crown or a few other things that a proper smith could spot right away.
Keep in mind that with 1911's you can not simply buy a new barrel and drop it into the gun. 1911 barrels need to be fitted to the link and slide. This means you are going to be taking the gun to a gunsmith anyway. So you might as well tell him what the issues are that you are having before you jump to conclusions which are based on inexperience in such things.
The scuff marks shown on the casing in skinny's picture are NOT any sort of sign of wear or damage in the barrel. But the size of the mouth on the ejected casings might be a sign of an oversize chamber. But even then it might have become oversize from stretching or it might have been that way since day one. You are jumping to conclusions without actually measuring anything.
Note how skinny used the lighting in the picture of his barrel. It is often hard to see the rifling depending on how you position the light and look at it. It takes just the right sort of positioning of the light, barrel and your eye to see the rifling as sharply as his looks. You need to look at yours with the same sort of setup before you can decide on the condition. And even then, as mentioned before the height of the lands is not very much. Your barrel might be just fine. There is simply no way to know without slugging it and feeling for signs of trouble with a knowledge and skill of a gunsmith to determine if your barrel is good or not.
With handguns in general and especially with guns that shoot slower bullets like the .45acp it's nearly impossible to burn or wear out the bore. If your gun is shooting poorly or if it's having difficulty extracting the casings then it may be due to a barrel bulge or simply cleaning wear at the muzzle crown or a few other things that a proper smith could spot right away.
Keep in mind that with 1911's you can not simply buy a new barrel and drop it into the gun. 1911 barrels need to be fitted to the link and slide. This means you are going to be taking the gun to a gunsmith anyway. So you might as well tell him what the issues are that you are having before you jump to conclusions which are based on inexperience in such things.
The scuff marks shown on the casing in skinny's picture are NOT any sort of sign of wear or damage in the barrel. But the size of the mouth on the ejected casings might be a sign of an oversize chamber. But even then it might have become oversize from stretching or it might have been that way since day one. You are jumping to conclusions without actually measuring anything.
Note how skinny used the lighting in the picture of his barrel. It is often hard to see the rifling depending on how you position the light and look at it. It takes just the right sort of positioning of the light, barrel and your eye to see the rifling as sharply as his looks. You need to look at yours with the same sort of setup before you can decide on the condition. And even then, as mentioned before the height of the lands is not very much. Your barrel might be just fine. There is simply no way to know without slugging it and feeling for signs of trouble with a knowledge and skill of a gunsmith to determine if your barrel is good or not.
