It seems like the first cut that everyone makes on their GI milspec 1911s is the good ol flare o' the ejection port. Is this really necessary for 100% reliablity?
My springer non-GI "milspec" (now in someone else's safe) came with a stock flared ejection port, yet the brass practically dribbled out of it until I reshaped and tensioned the extractor per Tuner's instructions. Also, all of the brass ejected from this gun dinked off the slide just behind the flared ejection port and spun off it like a spring board. When I asked both of the local gunsmiths about it, the collective answer was "no one knows why 1911s do that." Heck, and one of these guys is as old as John Moses Browning himself!
btw: I watched a guy shoot his brand new para-ordnance LTC (the one with the mongo-extractor) at the range yesterday morning. Sometimes the brass flew up. Sometimes it flew sideways. Somes it just kind a rolled out. Sometimes it spun in air and sometimes it sailed like dead weight. He didn't have any stoppages, but I swear, rarely did two ejected cases' trajectories look the same!
I am asking because I am thinking of buying a springer GI milspec locally. Assuming that it functions reliably with remington JHPS and Golden Sabers, I am planning on carrying it. I don't want to modify the gun. If a flared ejection port really adds that much to reliability then I'll just wait two months and buy a Colt NRM. However, the aesthetics of the GI milspec and the feel of its short GI trigger appeal and the pracitcality of its parkerized finish appeal to me more. I could just get another non-GI springer milspec but I've already done that once and had a bad experience. Sights fell off. Grips screw bushings stripped out. I just don't want to deal with the headaches of sending a gun back to the factory.
My springer non-GI "milspec" (now in someone else's safe) came with a stock flared ejection port, yet the brass practically dribbled out of it until I reshaped and tensioned the extractor per Tuner's instructions. Also, all of the brass ejected from this gun dinked off the slide just behind the flared ejection port and spun off it like a spring board. When I asked both of the local gunsmiths about it, the collective answer was "no one knows why 1911s do that." Heck, and one of these guys is as old as John Moses Browning himself!
btw: I watched a guy shoot his brand new para-ordnance LTC (the one with the mongo-extractor) at the range yesterday morning. Sometimes the brass flew up. Sometimes it flew sideways. Somes it just kind a rolled out. Sometimes it spun in air and sometimes it sailed like dead weight. He didn't have any stoppages, but I swear, rarely did two ejected cases' trajectories look the same!
I am asking because I am thinking of buying a springer GI milspec locally. Assuming that it functions reliably with remington JHPS and Golden Sabers, I am planning on carrying it. I don't want to modify the gun. If a flared ejection port really adds that much to reliability then I'll just wait two months and buy a Colt NRM. However, the aesthetics of the GI milspec and the feel of its short GI trigger appeal and the pracitcality of its parkerized finish appeal to me more. I could just get another non-GI springer milspec but I've already done that once and had a bad experience. Sights fell off. Grips screw bushings stripped out. I just don't want to deal with the headaches of sending a gun back to the factory.