2nd report on new SA GI (WWII)

[1911WB]

Got up to the 200 rd. mark today. the pistol is still doing great. Refresher- when I got it I replaced the extractor with a Brown. Also put in a Nowlin sear spring and a 20# mainspring which together reduced the already good trigger pull from 5 lbs to 4. The pistol is pretty well fitted. Other the aforementioned changes all I've done is lubricate, clean & shoot it. It is reasonably accurate. Today I shot a 2 1/2" group at 20 yrds. with the following load: 230 gr. Win. FMJ, 5 grns Bullseye, WLP primer, 1.255 oal. The pistol has functioned perfectly with two exceptions: rds. 1 & 101 failed to eject (the extracted empties were sitting in the chamber catywampus- both of these rds. had been single fed from mags, then the mag was released & the rd. fired); the second issue is that occasionally ejected empties graze the top of my head. The first issue might be due to my rather light reloads. When I tried the single round trick with a factory WB Win. round it ejected fine. I guess I can live with the second issue at least till I replace the ejector. All in all I can say that this pistol is the best value on a good 1911A1 that I know of. What I mean by "good" is reasonably well built, requires little to no mods to make it work right, and is reliable right out of the box.

 

[1911Ron]

I have one also and the only thing i've changed was the grips to the Houges while they are okay i want some walnut ones w/the double diamonds other than that nothing else was done. I ran an assortment of JHP thru mine and no feeding errors and this was with different shapes and brands of JHP in the same mag! Glad you like it.

 

[ruger357]

Have had one for around a year and a half. I changed the grips to wood and put in a Wolf recoil spring. Great firearm.