The Trinity Kid
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Evening all.
I wasn't sure where to put this, and i couldn't find an answer in any existing threads, so moderators, I won't get my feelings hurt if you move it.
Anyway, I have a RIA GI -MS 1911. I've had nothing but problems with the thing. First, it refused to hold the magazine. I fixed that with a 1/2 turn on the mag release screw. Then, it's had issues extracting. That is recurring, and messing with the extractor hasn't helped. Once, it didn't quite get one case out, but instead of just a normal doublefeed, it flipped the empty backwards and back into the chamber, requiring a cleaning rod and a hammer to get it out. The finally, the recoil spring retainer has an insatiable urge to turn sideways inside the slide, on time requiring machining by gunsmith to resolve. It also has issues with feeding, though that was mostly fixed by a Wilson Combat mag.
So here's where the conversion-ing comes in. I was thinking of just buying a whole new slide/barrel/recoilspring/guide rod,, and putting that on the frame. That would hopefully eliminate the extraction issue, the weird bushingless field stripping, and the squirrelly spring retainer. Is this doable, or is the MS frame different from regular GI 1911s?
Now comes part 2 of the question. Naturally, this gun is a 45, and so would the new "upper assembly", for lack of a better term. But, say I also wanted to be able to shoot 38 super. Would it be as simple as a barrel and recoil spring swap? Or are 38 barrels a different outside diameter than the 45?
--TK
I wasn't sure where to put this, and i couldn't find an answer in any existing threads, so moderators, I won't get my feelings hurt if you move it.
Anyway, I have a RIA GI -MS 1911. I've had nothing but problems with the thing. First, it refused to hold the magazine. I fixed that with a 1/2 turn on the mag release screw. Then, it's had issues extracting. That is recurring, and messing with the extractor hasn't helped. Once, it didn't quite get one case out, but instead of just a normal doublefeed, it flipped the empty backwards and back into the chamber, requiring a cleaning rod and a hammer to get it out. The finally, the recoil spring retainer has an insatiable urge to turn sideways inside the slide, on time requiring machining by gunsmith to resolve. It also has issues with feeding, though that was mostly fixed by a Wilson Combat mag.
So here's where the conversion-ing comes in. I was thinking of just buying a whole new slide/barrel/recoilspring/guide rod,, and putting that on the frame. That would hopefully eliminate the extraction issue, the weird bushingless field stripping, and the squirrelly spring retainer. Is this doable, or is the MS frame different from regular GI 1911s?
Now comes part 2 of the question. Naturally, this gun is a 45, and so would the new "upper assembly", for lack of a better term. But, say I also wanted to be able to shoot 38 super. Would it be as simple as a barrel and recoil spring swap? Or are 38 barrels a different outside diameter than the 45?
--TK