That is the dumbest article I've read in a long time.
If you take a Glock, say, and screw with the barrel or the timing or the lugs the same way people do with 1911s, it would chuck, too! Heck, I've seen them not fire if you oiled the friggin' striker!
That one was something Pistolwrench fixed, I think. In the misguided quest for extreme lockup
from the factory, lug bump is created and results in three-point-jams.
He fixed it very nicely:
The fix was really nice.
Here's my Rock Island:
Daily carry.
I found this
after a failure I could not attribute to ammo.
Fairly common on production guns.
I reprofiled it with stones
and have
tried to make it choke. It won't!
All timing is back in original 1911 (not a1!) spec.
Speaking of the a1, they messed that one up too, at the other extreme:
Yer stressing your link, son.
If you go to Google images and shop for 1911 barrels, you'll find a bunch with the link either so far forward or so far backward that it's impossible to tell whether the barrel is riding via the bottom lugs or the link. I suspect, but cannot prove of course, that it's because most of these ride the link back into battery.
Besides giving the barrel too steep a ride in to battery and therefore causing upchucks, this is a damned fine way to bust barrel links.
As long as you keep the timing the way it should be, it really doesn't matter what you do to the rest of the pistol. Just use good magazines.
By the way, I fit a "NM" barrel bushing to this pistol, along with bigger sights:
... and it does this with a bushing that is tighter than it probably should be:
Did I mention it never chokes?
I mean, c'mon guys, it started as a Rock Island. Excellent frame and slide (STI uses them!) but crap internals, mostly the cheapest cast and MIM that can be found.
Yet, they're really not too far off blueprint specs, these days anyway, and that's why I love 'em.
If you take a Kimber, Springfield, or any other production 1911 and bring it back into blueprint specs with a good magazine, it will run perfectly, too.
The 1911 has been "improved upon" way too much. Hell, ask Tuner how he learned to work on 'em. The military mucked them up.
I'll pit the 1911 against any modern pistol simply because they all work on the same principle, or danged near all of them. Sure, the Beretta 92 an a couple others drop a block to unlock, a few twist the barrels, and a couple are even gas-delayed blowback, but the swinging link and modified Browning are the two that have stayed with us and stayed the most popular.
You can't take the design out of specs and whine when it doesn't work right.
Josh