Improving on the 41 would be akin to thinking a Wilson Combat Super Grade needed more tweeking.
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The Model 41 is one pistol I’ve always liked... but never owned.
Improving on the 41 would be akin to thinking a Wilson Combat Super Grade needed more tweeking.
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Improving on the 41 would be akin to thinking a Wilson Combat Super Grade needed more tweeking.
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I have had to put a drop of oil on the first round and then no problem.
That is truly sad for me to hear.My brand new mid-80s 41 shot high with the rear sight at limit, the bore was visibly skewed on the 5.5 heavy barrel. Sent it off to SW, it arrived back with a bent barrel tang. I expressed dissatisfaction with this, was told that a scientific whack with a hammer was the fix for this issue, case closed. They don’t spend as much time and care with these as we would like to think. The gun went on to help earn high master, and yes, I did polish the ramp and deburr the chamber lip which was shaving lead. I acquired a 7 3/8 comp barrel which I keep irons on, the 5.5 started wearing an ultra dot shortly after SW fixed it. It’s a great gun, enjoy it, it’s meant to be shot.
I regularly shoot an informal bullseye match at my club. The model 41 is the most common gun on the line. Most of us shoot the more economical ammo.Got to the indoor range (at the gun club I belong to) this morning. I only had an hour as I had to get to work this morning. I think it went pretty good. I'm pleased the way the Model 41 ran. I took 4 different brands of 22lr.
I took Remington Golden Bullet, CCI Stingers, Blazer Lead Round nose and an older partial box of Federal Auto Match. I shot free hand or without a rest from 10 yards.
I had a couple failure to feeds that I believe were ammo related. I shot 4 mags only because of the time.
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The first was mag was the CCI Stingers i believe this is the fastest velocity ammo I shot and I had one failure to feed. I was please the way it grouped.
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The next mag was the Remington Golden Bullet. Every round fed and fired fine. Thought it grouped OK too.
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The next mags the federal Auto Match and I and I had 3-4 failures to feed. To be fair this was old ammo I had laying around the garage. It seemed like a couple of the rounds were under powered maybe cause of age and that when I had the failure to fee the next round.
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The last mag was the Blazer Lead Round nose. It had no failures. It didn't group as well but could have just been me.
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All in all very pleased the way the Model 41 shot. I really liked the trigger unlike a lot of guns that need work to get a good trigger. The 41 seemed easy to get and hold on target.
Thank you again for all the info!
Some use a mixture of automatic transmission fluid mixed with cheapo gun cleaning solvent that has the banana oil smell to it. it is supposed to be self cleaning.Really pretty Model 41!!
...... I have had to put a drop of oil on the first round and then no problem. I have not had any problem with ejection.
I have found that my 41 is very accurate with the ammo I used as in Fed Auto Match and it did well with Rem Golden bullet. Even though Rem GB is supposed to be HV, it may not actually be fully HV.