PT1911 needs a real smith for once.

I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to be looking at at least $500 worth of work on a $550 gun that you can better replace with a Rock Island 1911 for $450. It sounds to me like the PT1911 was made of substandard alloy. Having a gunsmith refit it isn't going to change that, and it will just continue to get worse until metal fatigue finally destroys it for good. You're better off just replacing it for something better and cheaper. The Rock Island 1911's have a very good track record.

Sell it and pick up what you want.

The PT1911 isn't worth the work.

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Very nice black treatment.

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What do you call wiggle room between your slide to frame fit? have you measured it yet? Is it a steel frame or aluminum?

I see more to the story there is...I was going to defend Taurus as a PT1911AR owner myself.

But Jeez...a 22lb recoil spring? Stock is 16lbs, even heavy duty is 18.5...

Quite possible that you did wreck the frame with that heavy spring in there.

As I've said Taurus problems usually originate with owner inducement, IMVHO. I'm not knocking you, but...

Yes, 16# is considered standard today and, in reality, a 14# will work just fine for standard velocity loads if the gun is right. 22# is too much spring and will cause accelerated wear to the gun over time. Regarding the other thread, if it takes a spring heavier than 16# to make your 5" gun run, something is wrong with your gun. That's from 46 years of owning and shooting many many thousands of rounds through 30+ personally owned 1911s and quite a few more owned by the US Army.

Dude, listen to reason...

You bought a cookie cutter "semi-custom" (that's nonsense) Taurus.

The money you put into it cannot even be remotely recouped should you want to sell and the pistol isn't worth the work you are going to put in it.

Why would you double the price of a low-end 1911 with custom work?

If you really want a custom 1911, build one. If you want a functional and yet nice 1911, look into other factory pistols that fit your wants/needs.

I'll tell you what, I've got a semi-custom Smith 1911SC and its the best little 1911 I've ever owned. I even sold my Springfield TRP because this one is all I need. Smith totally backs it too.

I found it barely used for 800. It's got all the fixin's and a great trigger. PLUS its light.

Don't put money into that pistol. Get it back to stock. Sell it for 400 and buy the pistol you want for 900-1200.

There are plenty of beautiful "safe queens" out there you can pick up.

The Smith line aren't "true" to the 1911 design but they function. Better yet, if you can find someone dumping their "customized" 1911, like I did, you get the work you want, for a quarter of the price.

I got a performance center Smith for cookie cutter price.

I recommend you look at 4.25" 1911's for CC.

Good luck!

Unless you are really attached to that Taurus you might consider using it as a trade for something else.

Around here for what you plan on spending for upgrades and repairs, throwing in the Taurus as part trade you could step up to a Springfield or Colt for the same money. My Rock Island is a great gun also for less than the cost of you planned expense.

I understand customizing a gun to your specs, done it plenty of times myself. You could do some extra work on some of those other models and have a better weapon (IMHO) and it would have more value to it at the end of the day.

I would vote to move on to another model.

First off ive found that my slide now has wiggle room after 2k rounds, It hasn't affected accuracy or anything else for that matter. But it was tight when i bought it. So i need the slide to frame refitted.

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why bother? if there are no reliability and or accuracy issues then why get it refitted?

and agree with the above posters the work you want is not worth it considering the base gun being a taurus IMHO.

Good choice.