When selling a 1911 does one need to post number of rounds fired, how many dry fires, and how many times the slide was released without being slowed by hand?
Don't do it. Also, would you mind sharing where this was the guy was doing this? I don't want to be shopping there either.
I admire a man that will readdress an issue and is willing to explain himself further. I don't know when you were trained in USMC. I was Army trained in 76 through 79. Never once had they made me let the slide back easy on old slab sides. Of course while I was qualifying with a Singer manufactured 1911 the front sight fell off. By the way, they ALL had the idiot scratch, deep.I need to say that I re-read Eking’s first post here as he seems pretty adamant that allowing the slide to slam home on an empty chamber won’t hurt a 1911. I disagreed and posted a link from Hilton Yam, a noted gunsmith and founder of 10-8 that says otherwise. But Eking in his intro told us he is also a gunsmith school grad. So he DOES have expertise in this subject and thus, here we have different opinions, both from gunsmiths. Mine, on the other hand, comes from being taught not to do it in my USMC training. Perhaps that is way out of date though as I have been retired from the Corps for many years. I’d like to know what is being taught in more recent years just for the sake of knowing.
I imagine we could search and find more ‘smiths on both sides of the discussion. Some say don’t do it; some say it is okay. Choices are always yours to make. It has been an interesting discussion.
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