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I’ve been following some discussions about Glock pistols adding a small groove to the left (ejector) side of the little side wall shoulder of the breechface to help hold the case during extraction and aid ejection. Pictures posted make it look like a very minimal extra extractor hook. Don’t get...

When replacing the hammer pin on Les Baer 1911, I ran into an inersting problem. Replacement part is Cylinder and Slide. I could easily insert the pin halfway into the hammer from either side, but the pin would not go all the way through. My first thought was the possibility that the hole...

Ok, so who makes a skeletonized 1911 hammer with hooks at least .025? All I see are Brown, Wilson, Baer, etc. who claim much less.

I'm looking at a 30 year old Colt 1911 that the seller claims to have been a full custom job by Wilson. He doesn't have documentation and there is no Wilson marking on the pistol. It is all blued, but has a stainless grip safety that has been deactivated. I was wondering two things: How can...

I have a 10-year-old Baer 1911 that has malfunctioned once with perhaps 10k rounds through it. Yes, I said once. It will feed anything, including empty brass. One day, I was so bored with the uncanny accuracy and reliability of this pistol that I experimented with various failure-inducing...

I found out that Les Baer uses 18.5 pound recoil spring with a 21 pound mainspring. How does that compare with the 'normal' 16/23 setup? Seems like two up on one and two down on the other. Does the lighter mainspring give a lighter trigger pull? Does the combination act about the same as the...

I have a Springfield Armory "Loaded" full size, oh, about four years old or so, maybe three thousand rounds. I have a problem with the tip of the extractor hitting the forward angle of the case extractor groove. I have tried a new Wilson, Brown, and Springfield extractor and all of them hit...

I keep seeing threads about what parts people have swapped out of their factory guns and I wonder if changing a stock slide stop (I have a Springfield loaded - about three years and 5k rounds old) to one of the "big name" stops like Brown Hardcore, Wilson Bulletproof, ect. acutally does anything...