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Treated myself to my first 1911!
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<blockquote data-quote="trbii" data-source="post: 3854492" data-attributes="member: 2449"><p>I did that for about 25 years, back when I was competing. Never hurt the firing pin. I did notice that my used Colt Combat commander frame was cracked just below the front of one side of the rail. Bought it used, no telling how many rounds fired thru it before I got ahold of it. Or what powder charge reload the previous owners had tortured it with. I was even using those hard rubber shok buffs, (popular back in the 1980’s, we thought they helped cushion the slides impact on the frame)? Mine cracked while using the little shok buffer pad, it slid on over the recoil spring guide rod. Then one day my Springfield Armory 1911A1 basic barrel link weld broke completely off. After firing a shot, I looked at my full length 1911, horrified, confounded, to see the entire upper, slide, barrel, bushing, hanging half off the frame, as if I’d began to disassemble it. Had a lot of function troubles with that one, perhaps magazine related. Bought a Wilson Combat mags finally, that helped some. It became clear to me when you buy the base model 1911 from a manufacturer, you may spend the next few years fighting and fussing with it, spending more and more money, fixing this, smoothing that, and never getting acceptable results. In my case all functioning woes ended the day I spent about $1100. at Dongs gun shop on a Kimber Gold Match 1911. Zero issues with my Kimber. It surprises me to read complaints, critical reports from others about Kimber. Maybe thru the years they had a bad run. Springfield Armory did replace my barrel, free of charge. Did honor their guarantee (warranty?) I give them all due credit for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trbii, post: 3854492, member: 2449"] I did that for about 25 years, back when I was competing. Never hurt the firing pin. I did notice that my used Colt Combat commander frame was cracked just below the front of one side of the rail. Bought it used, no telling how many rounds fired thru it before I got ahold of it. Or what powder charge reload the previous owners had tortured it with. I was even using those hard rubber shok buffs, (popular back in the 1980’s, we thought they helped cushion the slides impact on the frame)? Mine cracked while using the little shok buffer pad, it slid on over the recoil spring guide rod. Then one day my Springfield Armory 1911A1 basic barrel link weld broke completely off. After firing a shot, I looked at my full length 1911, horrified, confounded, to see the entire upper, slide, barrel, bushing, hanging half off the frame, as if I’d began to disassemble it. Had a lot of function troubles with that one, perhaps magazine related. Bought a Wilson Combat mags finally, that helped some. It became clear to me when you buy the base model 1911 from a manufacturer, you may spend the next few years fighting and fussing with it, spending more and more money, fixing this, smoothing that, and never getting acceptable results. In my case all functioning woes ended the day I spent about $1100. at Dongs gun shop on a Kimber Gold Match 1911. Zero issues with my Kimber. It surprises me to read complaints, critical reports from others about Kimber. Maybe thru the years they had a bad run. Springfield Armory did replace my barrel, free of charge. Did honor their guarantee (warranty?) I give them all due credit for that. [/QUOTE]
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