Troll much?
Sorry, but you're full of doo-doo. I, as well as every other 1911 aficionado of my acquaintance (at least 40 or 50 guys with each having at least 30 years experience in military, law enforcement and/or competitive shooting), don't buy Wilson Combat pistols to be "safe queens." Most of us are not only college-educated, many with post-grad degrees, but also are retired military or law enforcement. Now "Cooter Boolit" -- sit down, shut your pie-hole and stop making statements that do nothing but display extreme ignorance of the topic at hand.
When Bill Wilson recommends firing a certain amount of rounds through his pistols, I'm gonna pay attention. If you think that a pistol from a maker who recommends shooting it for a certain amount of rounds before considering it to be "broken-in" is BS and something you simply cannot countenance, fine, but don't try and convince folks who know better otherwise ...
WHAT THE..??? Sit down and shut my pie hole...????????? Folks that know better...????? REALLY...????? The only troll i see in here is you.!
Yeah, i DO know better, thru experience...!!!! I didnt try to convince anyone... you`re the one trying to pull that stunt off by quoting something from a manual, i was just disagreeing with 500rds break in with MY OWN OPINION on the subject. Not everyone is going to agree with you, mainly because you`re a follower instead of a leader by preaching someone else`s gospel, and certainly not from anything you`ve learned on your own. Bill Wilson isnt the king of 1911 building either. He`s a very small time builder. There are better gun makers out there building 1911`s that DONT need 500rds to break them in, and they shoot bullseyes all day long.
And by the way... let me tell you something mister, i`m in my 60`s, with 40+yrs experience, and i`ve worked over more guns than most, and a heck of ALOT of 1911`s over the years. Have you ever once had one of YOUR guns that YOU worked over, in a published magazine...???? I highly doubt you did, but i surely have. If you want to listen to what BILLY WILSON says, GREAT, DO SO, go pay attention to BILLY all day an night, which is what someone like YOU should do. I dont really care what BILLY WILSON says. So go over to his site and fan him up if you like, and MAYBE, he might start paying you to fan him up, or is he already doing that for you. YOU come in here to insult my intelligence tells me all i care to know about you. I pretty much figured out that your one of those armchair commando`s that preach`s what others have said and done or are doing. Maybe you should try to lead instead of follow, then you`ll figure out that 500rd break-in`s are an excuse for shiddy gun building. If people didnt build their guns out of inferior metals, that wear down so quick, they would need to build them so tight and have to use 500rds to loosen them up...!!!! And further more, anyone that carrys around a $3,000 dollar 1911 safe-queen pistol for self-defense is just carrying it around just to brag about how much money they wasted and then try to impress people that just dont know anything. You go ahead and use that $3,000 BILLY WILSON pistol for a self-defense shoot, and when you dont get it back from the police after you kill somebody with it, go buy $3,000 dollars worth of crying towels. I`ll spend $300 dollars on a self-defense gun that will shoot bullseyes @ 7yds/10yds all day long, (which is MORE than satisfactory for self-defense) and when the police take it after a shoot, i`m hardly out anything. Ok lets see now, i could have 10 self-defense shoots before i will have wasted the money on one BILLY gun, and $300 dollar SD guns that hold far more ammo, and lets say, ALOT LIGHTER TO CARRY. Something to the tune of, work smarter not harder.
I STILL say, 500rds to break in ANY gun is pure BS... if you need that many rounds BEFORE it shoots halfway decent, the gun wasn`t built that good. All i see with BILLY type guns is all flash, and its not coming from the muzzle either. Everytime BILLY sells a gun, he`s laughing all the way to the bank... so it must be that you own a BILLY gun due to how i offended you, then you came in here to try to belittle me. There are 1911`s out there that shoot as good or better than BILLY`S pimp pipes, for half the price. If your buying the BILLY gun for all the glam looks, i dont need to explain myself any further.
You have YOUR opinion, i have mine, and mine came from what i`ve learned, you, not so much... have a GREAT day OLD DOG...!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rant....done...!