I get many emails after all these years about the very same subject and problems and sadly most people do not ever learn. IF IT AIN'T BROKEN DON'T FIX IT.
The fact that you buy and pay a premium price for your 1911 pistol does not always make it better. All these high priced 1911 pistols that come out of a production shop are nothing but that = A HIGH PRICED PRODUCTION PISTOL THAT IS ASSEMBLED BY UNKNOWN PEOPLE WITH UNKNOWN EXPERIENCE, MANY OF THESE PEOPLE WORK ON COMMISSION ONLY.
The old story coming out of Brooklyn in my time was that if you put a fox tail on the antenna of your car and install mud flaps does your car ride better ?? OF COURSE NOT, ITS ALL BS. Same applies to the nonsense they tell you about a 1911 pistol. SUCH AS, it shoots so much better with my new grips and full length guide rod and my variable recoil spring and my lowered ejection port and my roll over notch and my new slide stop and my new barrel and my new hammer and my new TITANIUM firing pin and the list goes on and on and on.
Its total BS, you have been either reading from publications that writers have been saying for years and years, inorder to sell products so they can get royalties and or some schmuck in the chat room is giving you his expert advice for his 10 minutes of fame in fantasy land. Hes probably wearing Black Pajamas and comes out of the kloset at night and is known as the famous Kloset Keyboard Kommando armed with his "MOUSE"...
Buying a 1911 pistol has become complicated because COLT was never able to get their act together. Had Colt been able to do what was right, they would still be top dawg and their would never have been a reason for other companies to make 1911 clones. After all colt has only been making this 1911 pistol for 90 years.
There would be no Kimbers or SW 1911's or any of the other companies had colt had superior management and they could have kept their old craftsmen from dieing of old age waiting for them to get their act together. The sale of 1911 style pistols is very strong and it is macho in America to carry one, there is not a thing wrong with the 1911 pistol as originally designed by John Browning.
Everyone had illusions of making mega bucks when it came to improving Mr. Brownings design, they were mostly wrong. The 1911 pistols used in WW II worked and saved many lives. They never had fancy sights, they never had high ride grip safeties or special thumb safeties or full length guide rods or lowered ejection ports or roll over notches or TITANIUM parts or mercury filled guide rods or special magazines or after market barrels and barrel bushings, etc, etc, BUT THEY WORKED AS DESIGNED.
What more could any one ask of a superb handgun but a basic 1911 with a very good trigger that worked everytime. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY AND TO CON YOU INTO BELIEVING YOU GOT TO HAVE THESE LATEST PRODUCTS. I am firmly convinced that in this present day world Springfield Armory makes the best 1911 pistol providing you stay with their basic model which is in the 500 dollar range. I do not know of any companies product that even compares even if its double or triple the price. The SA Mil-Spec has a very good frame to slide fit.
I still have my old Colt 1911 that caused me grief and everythime I think how this old gun could have gotten me killed I can not believe it to this day. I will never sell it and I will never use it, its just for memories of the past. Its been made to at least work reliably and I had it hard chromed by Virgil Tripp. If I were to carry a 1911 pistol, it would be a SA mil-spec or I would use and carry a pistol I have made from scratch without the frills and no parts that are not just standard to insure reliability.
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Look at the archives, this blogger has mostly pictures of defective guns and parts all of you need to see and remember. I am not trying to aggravate anyone, I am just trying to explain that the original Browning 1911 design was doing fine until all these rich people put parts on the market and wrote about them and tried to convince you that you had to have them...
The worst thing you could possibly do is purchase a tiny version of the 1911 design, it lacks the slide weight you need as in the 5 inch government model. This is why all these very small 1911 designed pistols have dual recoil springs in order to make up for the very lack of slide weight, I have not found them to be reliable.
Aside from the small size remember when they tell you about barrel length it includes the chamber. For example if you have a 3 inch barrel, your chamber is about 1 inch long and that will leave you with about 2 inches of rifling. If you use American hardball ammunition you will be lucky to achieve 650 feet per second of muzzle velocity out of 2 inches of rifling, and it depends on the burning rate of powder being used. My Glock 19 with Corbon Powerball has a velocity of 1475 feet per second at the muzzle. You and your mini 1911 pistol best learn how to use a very sharp knife.
DISCLAIMER: THESE ARE MY PERSONAL OPINIONS AND VIEWPOINTS...
Photo = 1911 sear spring - click on thumbnail photo to enlarge.
Teddy
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