1911 .45 ACP pistols from Armscor

[stinger 327]

As Armscor isn't selling any TCM conversions and it is apparently unsafe in singlestack designs, don't worry about it as a CA subject for a few years.


Around .45acp prices, only available from Armscor so far, made in batches so sometimes there isn't any to find, currently only one projectile choice (SJHP - pretty close to an all-purpose bullet)

22TCM is a really cool round, but it is a good thing the gun comes with a 9x19 conversion kit. It is a very nice doublestack 9mm 1911, I use it for bowling pin matches.

thanks for that info.

 

[stinger 327]

I know my FS RIA's can be dismantled with no tools, but my Compact RIA - a straightened-out paperclip with about 1/4" of one end bent 90* is needed.

Paperclip?

 

[bigfatdave]

Paperclip?

the videos will illustrate better ... but I'll try

The 4" and 3.5" RIA guns (and Citadel) have a full length guide rod that goes through a special reverse plug under the barrel. If you lock back the slide, you can see a small hole drilled through the rod top-to-bottom.
You insert your bent wire/paperclip/whatever into that hole, and let the slide go forward until it runs into the wire, and now the slide isn't under spring tension.
You can now easily line up the takedown notch and slide latch lever, pop out the assembly pin and have the slide off.
Once you have the slide off, the entire recoil assembly comes out as a unit, pinned together by your little paperclip/wire. As nothing in there needs to be spotless shiny clean, you can just spray it out with CLP or a dry-lube.

Pop the recoil assembly back in after the whole gun is clean, make sure the reverse plug's ears are lined up right, and stick the slide back on the frame. Nothing is under spring tension, so you can easily re-pin the barrel link with the assembly pin and get it into the gun without fighting the recoil spring.
Now lock the slide open again, and remove your little home-made tool, toss it in your gun cleaning kit to become lost and never seen again (mostly joking, I made some nice ones out of coper jewelry wire that don't get lost)

 

[stinger 327]

the videos will illustrate better ... but I'll try

The 4" and 3.5" RIA guns (and Citadel) have a full length guide rod that goes through a special reverse plug under the barrel. If you lock back the slide, you can see a small hole drilled through the rod top-to-bottom.
You insert your bent wire/paperclip/whatever into that hole, and let the slide go forward until it runs into the wire, and now the slide isn't under spring tension.
You can now easily line up the takedown notch and slide latch lever, pop out the assembly pin and have the slide off.
Once you have the slide off, the entire recoil assembly comes out as a unit, pinned together by your little paperclip/wire. As nothing in there needs to be spotless shiny clean, you can just spray it out with CLP or a dry-lube.

Pop the recoil assembly back in after the whole gun is clean, make sure the reverse plug's ears are lined up right, and stick the slide back on the frame. Nothing is under spring tension, so you can easily re-pin the barrel link with the assembly pin and get it into the gun without fighting the recoil spring.
Now lock the slide open again, and remove your little home-made tool, toss it in your gun cleaning kit to become lost and never seen again (mostly joking, I made some nice ones out of coper jewelry wire that don't get lost)

thank you for that info.
I got the full 5 inch Tactical. Maybe there is a u-tube film I could see this on.

 

[Aceoky]

VERY well done BFD!!! Harder to explain than to do (for me at least)