mljdeckard
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After many years of nagging, I finally got my dad to get a 'modern' Springfield G.I 1911. It was his compromise of moving into a serious defensive gun and being able to tell my mom he spent the minimum he could. (The last new gun he bought was over 20 years ago, when he spent the whole summer tying fishing flies to trade with the local sporting goods store.)
So he gets the gun, and now I'm in his ear about better magazines, sights, grips, etc, and an old-timer friend of his is telling him, "Don't buy ammo. We'll cast lead bullets and save you a pile of money." Now, in my owners manual for my Kimber, there is a warning to shoot only factory-loaded, jacketed 230 grain bullets. I am well aware that this is a legal butt-cover for Kimber, and reality isn't really that restrictive.
My question is, if he's going to do it, and if I'm eventually going to sample some of them too, what precautions should be in place when shooting non-jacketed ammo in a 1911, as far as lubing the bullets, cleaning, etc?
So he gets the gun, and now I'm in his ear about better magazines, sights, grips, etc, and an old-timer friend of his is telling him, "Don't buy ammo. We'll cast lead bullets and save you a pile of money." Now, in my owners manual for my Kimber, there is a warning to shoot only factory-loaded, jacketed 230 grain bullets. I am well aware that this is a legal butt-cover for Kimber, and reality isn't really that restrictive.
My question is, if he's going to do it, and if I'm eventually going to sample some of them too, what precautions should be in place when shooting non-jacketed ammo in a 1911, as far as lubing the bullets, cleaning, etc?