SR1911 2nd time out, new issues :(

rubberdown said:
Some may have ready my last thread about my NEW SR1911 leaving a nasty gouge on my brass when loading the rounds or ejecting the brass. I am told its no big deal and to just use it or mod/replace the factory extractor.

Today we took it out and put about 60 more rounds though it, some were my own berrys bullets plated reloads, some were Wolf rounds, all were 230 grain RN. On at least 3 occasions after the last round in the magazine was fired, the slide did NOT lock opened as it is supposed to. This happened once to a friend shooting the gun, and twice to me, on my instances, once was with a 7 round Ruger mag and once was with a 7 round Remington mag. I had 1 round stove pipe on me, and my friend had another issue but I want to confirm exactly what it was before I explain it because it sounds impossible.....
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it's still new and you haven't ran enough bullets through it, in my opinion. i ran 300 bullets through some of my kimbers before they operated better. is their a coating on
the inside of the slide and the frame where they latch together? that part needs to wear down a little more before it works more creamy smooth. 60 rounds isn't a whole
lot... maybe keep punching more rounds through it :)

i know this is a redundant question, but are you cleaning it after every outing and a prep lube before you go to the range???
1911 rarely come perfect, nor shoot perfect straight from the box. they're a work in progress and after wearing it in a bit,
they get #### together, so-to-speak.
 
I've been shooting reloads in my new SR1911 from the start (titegroup - forget the charge, but it's in the top 1/3 of the Lyman data for 230gn RN cast). I had one failure in the first or second mag through it, and has been flawless since for the few hundred that have been through it, both with Ruger mags and the cheapies that Providence is selling. Nice pistol. Same extractor marks as the OPs, and flings the casings over a 90 degree arc and 10 foot radius (not as well mannered as 9mm). I might try the next smallest autodisk for the next batch to see how it performs and to see if I have to do less chasing of casings.

I cleaned and lubed between trips out.

This one's a keeper.
 
alpining said:
It's as simple as just adding "resolved" to the title. Win/win.
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I wouldn't call getting 200 rounds through the gun with a malfunction "resolved".

I would call 1000 rounds WITHOUT a malfunction "resolved".

I would call this "probably improving".

I would call 1000 rounds with one malfunction "annoying and enough to make me wonder what's wrong with the gun". Right now we're at what, 260 rounds described in this thread, and 5 malfunctions, including one in the last 200 rounds?

That is a gun that doesn't run. Now maybe it loosens up and shoots well down the road, in which case, awesome. But based on what's described in this thread, I'd say the current state of the gun is "fingers crossed for major improvement".
 
misanthropist said:
I wouldn't call getting 200 rounds through the gun with a malfunction "resolved".
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In your opinion, sure. I happen to agree with you. Besides, any pistol isn't broken in until at least 500 rounds. But the OP has written that he/she is satisfied. If that's the last we hear on the subject, then the thread title is misleading as it is. That's all.
 
I would say the thread title is only misleading if no new issues ever crop up - and then only because the phrasing makes it impossible to tell whether more issues have surfaced or not. The thread title isn't "I'm unsatisfied with the number of issues this ruger has", it's basically "this ruger has issues" which at this point, it does.

If I had a Corolla that kept bursting into flame, and then after I owned it and drove it for a bit, it just slightly caught on fire, and I was fine with that because it was just in the trunk and I never kept anything there, changing a thread title to say "Corolla issues resolved" wouldn't be more accurate, it would be less accurate, not to mention misleading anyone who didn't read the whole thread, just scanned the title and figured "Oh, I guess the Corolla issues are all sorted out now".
 
That's definitely the gist of what I am getting at.



I guess I probably should explain for somebody's sake that I am not "bashing" Ruger by making the above joke. I have no specific reason to believe the SR1911 sucks and in fact on the basis of the people who consulted on the original design, it stands a decent chance of being a very good 1911 for the money. Nor do I actually think Toyota sucks.

I just have no interest in guns that don't run, and a gun that has a .5% failure rate is one I would fix or return, depending on the gun and the replacement options.

Given that some 1911s do benefit from having 500-1000 rounds through them (although in my experience this is either Les Baer pistols that are excessively tight in order to wear in to a "workable" extreme tight fit, or poorly machined guns that need to wear off all the rough machining inside in order to work) in this case, I'd probably take it to the range a few times, run 1000 rounds through it, and log the issues. If they're going away, fine. Otherwise...

Also in this case, I'd probably specifically look at the extractor and whether it needs tuning, just because there's a couple of comments in the description that sound like a dicey extractor, and that is probably the second most common 1911 issue, after bad mags.
 
Okay, to date, I have 105 + 60 (spproximatly) plus 200 plus another 15 today (friend shooting for the first time) rounds though this gun, so we are getting close to 400 rounds. If I get a chance, I'll put another 200 rounds through it tomorrow and see how it functions. If I get no issues on my next outing, I will consider the problem resolved and blame it on being a new tight springed gun I guess.

As for the extractor marks, I may look into fixing or modifying my extractor a bit, but I may just leave it be.
 
misanthropist said:
I would say the thread title is only misleading if no new issues ever crop up - and then only because the phrasing makes it impossible to tell whether more issues have surfaced or not. The thread title isn't "I'm unsatisfied with the number of issues this ruger has", it's basically "this ruger has issues" which at this point, it does.

If I had a Corolla that kept bursting into flame, and then after I owned it and drove it for a bit, it just slightly caught on fire, and I was fine with that because it was just in the trunk and I never kept anything there, changing a thread title to say "Corolla issues resolved" wouldn't be more accurate, it would be less accurate, not to mention misleading anyone who didn't read the whole thread, just scanned the title and figured "Oh, I guess the Corolla issues are all sorted out now".
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Bad analogy. If your Corolla doesn't run properly after you fill the tank with homemade gasoline, is it the fault of Toyota? Perhaps the OP should try running factory rounds (proper fuel) and go from there. My bet is that any and all issues will disappear with proper ammo.

just my nickel's worth.
 
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