Joshua M. Smith
Member
Hello,
My 1911 came with a slide release window that's cut just a little low. Not much, but enough to not let the ear that's supposed to hold the release from coming out unless aligned with the take down notch from properly doing its job.
My fix thus far has been to put a bead of silver solder on the bottom of the slide stop and filing the bead so that the slide stop fits normally.
Thus far I've tried a no-name extended release, a Brownell's, and a standard GI release, hoping for a bit of difference in the ear size. I have a Wilson on the way (should be here today) as well as a McCormick. A few others are on order.
This situation is doubly dangerous as I'm a lefty and the right side of the pin is sometimes hit while I'm shooting. Though it's not bumped hard enough to disassemble the gun, it does get bumped hard enough to keep the thing from locking the slide back.
I was thinking about dropping a small bead of weld on the stop and filing that, but I warped a Brownell's slide stop by "playing around" with different methods, and that was with a butane torch. I doubt welding would be much better.
I know I can't be the first to encounter a problem like this; there's just not much on the internet about it. I think I encountered one instance of this problem, but I do believe that guns that have the problem go largely unnoticed as most are right handed and their grips would not exacerbate the problem.
Has anyone run across this? If so, have you found a solution to the problem?
Thank you,
Josh <><
My 1911 came with a slide release window that's cut just a little low. Not much, but enough to not let the ear that's supposed to hold the release from coming out unless aligned with the take down notch from properly doing its job.
My fix thus far has been to put a bead of silver solder on the bottom of the slide stop and filing the bead so that the slide stop fits normally.
Thus far I've tried a no-name extended release, a Brownell's, and a standard GI release, hoping for a bit of difference in the ear size. I have a Wilson on the way (should be here today) as well as a McCormick. A few others are on order.
This situation is doubly dangerous as I'm a lefty and the right side of the pin is sometimes hit while I'm shooting. Though it's not bumped hard enough to disassemble the gun, it does get bumped hard enough to keep the thing from locking the slide back.
I was thinking about dropping a small bead of weld on the stop and filing that, but I warped a Brownell's slide stop by "playing around" with different methods, and that was with a butane torch. I doubt welding would be much better.
I know I can't be the first to encounter a problem like this; there's just not much on the internet about it. I think I encountered one instance of this problem, but I do believe that guns that have the problem go largely unnoticed as most are right handed and their grips would not exacerbate the problem.
Has anyone run across this? If so, have you found a solution to the problem?
Thank you,
Josh <><
