Rugger SR 1911 1000 round update

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Thought it was time for the next update. If you are a 1911 guru don't bother this is intended for us lesser mortals.

I have now put 1000 rounds through my SR1911. My comments below are in relation to a Sig 226 as a point of reference. Generally considered to be accurate and super reliable.

The 1911 is easier to shoot well than the 226. It takes less time to get used to the 1911 trigger. I could shoot the 1911 well from the beginning. The 226 took a few hundred rounds. After many rounds freehand accuracy is about the same 7 to 8" groups at 15 yards with the majority within 5". The spread is my shooting ability both guns are much better based on some braced testing I did.

Reliability. After about 200 rounds you can feel the 1911 staring to gum up and it can lead to a very occasional FTF. I have had 2 in the last 500 rounds. If the gun is clean it works flawlessly. My 1911 is pretty tight in the slide and I am sure this is part of the issue. The 1911 does not like being dry the sig doesn't really care. The sig will tolerate much more neglect. In about 3000 rounds I have not had any failures of any sort with the sig.

Cleaning. The 1911 takes longer to strip and clean than the sig. Not difficult but there are more parts and it is a little more fussy to strip clean and reassemble. You do not need tools to strip the 1911 but releasing the bushing by hand can bite your fingertip. A detail clean of the sig takes about 5 minutes whereas the 1911 takes 10-15. Personally I don't mind as I quite like cleaning the 1911. I just like the mechanism.

Accuracy. Good in a real world sense but if you are a precision shooter I don't think it is for you. Based on my bench testing about 2" at 15 yards.

Overall I really like the 1911. The feel, handling, look of the gun are very good. I really like it. But always a but, it is an old design and you need to pay it more attention than a glock or sig. If I wanted a shtf gun it would be the sig but for fun at the range the SR1911 is a really nice gun.
 
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I was really leaning on buying one of the SR1911, then I handled a Remington R1 1911, and I mean I love the Ruger and still want one, or a Sig P220 possibly. In the end tho I did buy a Remington R1 1911 and after a few hundred rounds its not failed once and seems quite accurate too, but now your'e making me want to re address the whole SR1911 romance again :p

Guns are like potato chips and tattoo's, You can't stop at just one!
 
Last time at the range I was breaking in a new SR1911 and got 5 FTF in 50 rounds. It was Wolf ammo though, probably why.
3 of them were from the same mag, all in a row. Wilson Combat mags too, so no cheapies.

Shoots good when it does shoot though lol
 
You mean these 5? The bullets all got pushed in despite a pretty firm crimp on them judging by the deep crimp on the bullet. They were all Blazer brass. I pulled the bullets, reseated them and recrimp and the bullet would still slide back into the case without much resistance. I should've taken measurements first but I ended up resizing the brass and reseating the bullets and they are nice and snug. Humm, wonder if those cases missed the resizer but that's one reason why I won't buy Wolf ammo anymore. It's not the first time I've seen bad ammo from Wolf. There were some 9mm Wolf reloads that had similar issues.

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tetra said:
Last time at the range I was breaking in a new SR1911 and got 5 FTF in 50 rounds. It was Wolf ammo though, probably why.
3 of them were from the same mag, all in a row. Wilson Combat mags too, so no cheapies.

Shoots good when it does shoot though lol
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Bro your'e scaring me now, cause that's all I shoot if I have a choice.

I hope it was like a bad box or something, hopefully no damage, there shouldn't be on that

Wolf or CCI?
 
Rasp76 said:
Bro your'e scaring me now, cause that's all I shoot if I have a choice
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LOL, just give each bullet a nice squeeze into the case with your fingers. If it pushes in, well, set those aside and shoot the rest. Seating the bullet THAT much further into the case will raise the CUP pressure considerably me thinks. If it'll go KABOOM, I'll leave that up to the seasoned reloaders to answer... but it won't be in MY gun to find that out.
 
Trinimon said:
You mean these 5? The bullets all got pushed in despite a pretty firm crimp on them judging by the deep crimp on the bullet. They were all Blazer brass. I pulled the bullets, reseated them and recrimp and the bullet would still slide back into the case without much resistance. I should've taken measurements first but I ended up resizing the brass and reseating the bullets and they are nice and snug. Humm, wonder if those cases missed the resizer but that's one reason why I won't buy Wolf ammo anymore. It's not the first time I've seen bad ammo from Wolf. There were some 9mm Wolf reloads that had similar issues.

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lol yep, those are the guilty culprits.
 
Trinimon said:
LOL, just give each bullet a nice squeeze into the case with your fingers. If it pushes in, well, set those aside and shoot the rest. Seating the bullet THAT much further into the case will raise the CUP pressure considerably me thinks. If it'll go KABOOM, I'll leave that up to the seasoned reloaders to answer... but it won't be in MY gun to find that out.
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I call those ''nosedives". I keep a bullet puller hammer in my range kit for that reason.
A couple light taps brings the round back to proper OAL, then I'll carefully chamber and fire them.

Even a properly made round can do that in a strong cycling gun during an FTF.
 
After she shot my R1, my wife decided she needed one of her own. Hers was better than mine. Then someone let her handle and shoot the SR1911 and she had to have one of them. That led to a second SR 1911 .... a 'back up' to the first ..... Truly, you can't just have one.
I gotta admit - had I handled and shot a SR1911 first, I might have gone that route, but I like the looks of blued steel.

Rasp76 said:
I was really leaning on buying one of the SR1911, then I handled a Remington R1 1911, and I mean I love the Ruger and still want one, or a Sig P220 possibly. In the end tho I did buy a Remington R1 1911 and after a few hundred rounds its not failed once and seems quite accurate too, but now your'e making me want to re address the whole SR1911 romance again :p

Guns are like potato chips and tattoo's, You can't stop at just one!
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i love my SR1911.
not one failure so far and about 2000 rounds down it.
love it so much i picked up the new SR1911 CMD.
if your interested in the Commander length 1911 i highly recommend it.
i had never handled or shot a commander till i got this one and i think im starting to prefer them over the full sized ones.
the balance of them is nicer.

here's the full sized and the CMD to get your juices flowing.

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So like should I be pissed I just bough a ton of CCI bulk in plano's this fall, I hope it was a few bad brass or a worn out die or something.

The only reason I dont have a SR1911 right now is this
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Trinimon said:
You mean these 5? The bullets all got pushed in despite a pretty firm crimp on them judging by the deep crimp on the bullet. They were all Blazer brass. I pulled the bullets, reseated them and recrimp and the bullet would still slide back into the case without much resistance. I should've taken measurements first but I ended up resizing the brass and reseating the bullets and they are nice and snug. Humm, wonder if those cases missed the resizer but that's one reason why I won't buy Wolf ammo anymore. It's not the first time I've seen bad ammo from Wolf. There were some 9mm Wolf reloads that had similar issues.

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That's why Lee sells a bunch of Factory Crimp dies
 
I had poor results with blazer ammo in my sr1911. Many feeding issues. I'm not buying them anymore because I reload but the remaining boxes I have crimped with the lee die and it seems to have solved the problem. I have not tried any other brand of ammo in this gun except my reloads which feed well now that I have things figured out.
 
enefgee said:
That's why Lee sells a bunch of Factory Crimp dies
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I did say I recrimped them in my original post. Just to clarify, I do own and use factory crimp dies but the point you're missing is that you shouldn't need to do anything but shoot any factory made ammo.

I brought home Tetra's 5 bad rounds and I ran 'em through my factory crimp die and the bullets could still be squeezed into the brass with little effort. It wasn't until I pulled the bullets, resized the brass and reseated and crimped them again were they good to go.
 
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