DustyVermonter
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I bought a Springfield Armory GI 1911 a while back and have only shot maybe 200 rds through it so far, I was shooting point of aim at about 15ft for my first few mags and accuracy seemed ok, but then I went back to about 25-30ft and I could not even for the life of me get on paper, not once. I thought maybe I was just having an off day but then I picked up a 4in .357mag and was able to group shots closely together, and then I picked up my uncles Kimber 5in 1911 and was able to get decent groups with that also. I was getting pretty frustrated with it so my uncle told me to put it down for a while and let him shoot it, and while he's not a champion pistolero or anything he's still a way decent shot who I've never seen shoot off the paper, but he could not get much more out of this gun than I. I did however note that the trigger is really hard to break and maybe it need one of those thousand round trigger jobs, or maybe a whole new trigger alltogether, I don't like to blame problems I have with a gun on the gun but to me something seems off, has anybody else had this issue with the SA GI 1911? Also, and please excuse my terminology here, I will explain this the best I can, the frame rail that the slide rails ride on, has what appears to be marring on the inside right of the rail, it is not identical to the left rail, and seems as though it has been shaved off at an angle and showing silver. I thought that maybe it got damaged from limpwristing it left handed, and letting the pistol recoil a little sideways to the right. Any tips or suggestions would be helpful, especially if you have this model. As it stands right now, I would not trust this gun in any kind of self defense scenario, and feel that I would fair better with my LCP as it shoots more accurately. This is my only 1911 and I love the way it looks and feels, but my overall opinion of this one sucks, which is disappointing because I paid almost $700 for it Thanks