Recent content by ckone

Just bought an STI Duty One, if you're thinking of a railed 1911 then you might want to take a hard look at one too. It has every thing I wanted: 70 series without any extra safety garbage, available bull or bushing (I got a bushing one), checkered front-strap, undercut trigger-guard, etc...

What's important to keep in mind in a discussion like this is that many of these posts are coming from a very "Americanized" sense (or maybe "traditional" is a better word) point of view of what a DA/SA gun means... As I understand it, the CZ-75 design was designed to be specifically SA/DA (SA...

The CZC hammer requires fitting the sear's safety-leg to the safety's "pad", it's not really cutting the sear as in how it interacts with the hammer as it sounds like you're thinking... It's easier to just file down the safety's pad than to work on the sear's safety-leg, but the sears are only...

Having owned all the guns you've mentioned (well, an STI Trojan 9mm anyways, which is a step up from a Spartan) I'd choose the CZ, but not just any CZ, you MUST get the CZCustoms competition hammer (or CGW drop-in milled Shadow hammer) and a 15 or 13lb hammer-spring to unlock it's true...

I think 1911tuner and I are thinking the same thing, what it sounds like the OP is describing when he says: "I just put the naked slide on the frame. It slid beautifully and freely up until it got to the sear disconnector. That seemed to block the slide, and it was about as hard to push past...

Ridiculous, I cannot agree. In the age of YouTube and Google, or resources like Brownell's "Gun Tech" videos out there, most anything assembly/reassembly-wise on a 1911 short of cutting a sear or recutting hammer-hooks or building one from the ground up from a raw frame/slide/barrel is very...

Oh, wanted to add: pretty sure those Springfields have an Intrnal-Locking-System built into their main-spring housings... if yours has one, I'd make sure that sucker is 100% disengaged as that might muck up an otherwise "mechanically sound" 1911.

Almost sounds like one of the sear spring's legs are caught under the disconnector or something with the fire-control not being installed correctly...? If you're familiar with 1911's, I'd detail strip it and then reassemble it to make sure it's right, or get someone who knows how to do it take...

You'll be blown away by the Shadow, you made the right choice. 9mm 1911's while nice, are a headache, in 9mm a CZ Shadow is as good as it gets. Plus, with the thin grips the CZ will be thinner than a 1911 wearing slim-lines, many find them actually too thin...

^^^Yeah, RIA's are great deals, but it'd cost more to upgrade an RIA to Spartan-spec than just to get a Spartan... The Spartan's frame and barrel are RIA/Armscor (Philippines), everything else is STI, most importantly you get their S-7 tool steel hammer and sear and their trigger, then there's...

Spartan, it's not a "low-end" gun at all, it's just a more affordable STI... plus, being a 1911 it can be customized, upgraded, or just made to fit your personal tastes (or not) over time, good luck just finding better sights for the PPQ. Yeah, 9mm 1911's can be a bit of a headache sometimes...

Ditch the MTAC, I'm about the same size as you and EDC a G19 AIWB without a hitch... You need a holster with a smaller footprint is all, those MTAC's, CTAC's, Crossbreed holsters work best at 3:30-4:30 and for heavier guns where that kind of support is needed. A G19 is light and that gigantic...

YES.

I've had the VZ grips on two different Shadow incarnations and after ordering and trying all of the other grip options I think they're the best available. They're somewhere in-between the CZCustom Al Thin and Thick grips but more importantly they are not as flat and more radiused which feels...

Coolluke01, c'mon, put down the kool-aid already... just because your Gen4's happen to work it doesn't mean the zillion others out there having issues are all from weak ammo and limp-wristing.