The Wiry Irishman
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After a stressful week I decided to combine an afternoon of relaxation with a little reliability experiment for my 1911.
Its a Les Baer Premier II with the 1.5" and 50 yard guarantee. Here it is beforehand, right after the detail strip and clean I do every 2000 rounds:
A lot of people claim that Baers and the like are too tight to run when dirty, so I loaded up about the dirtiest thing I ever shot, 1000 rounds of 4.8gr Bullseye behind a 230gr LRN.
I went to my local indoor range, ready to enjoy a couple hours of shooting, even brought a Gatorade and a candy bar so I wouldn't get shaky if I was there for a while.
After about sixty rounds, the hammer would only drop to half cock when the trigger was pulled. It turned out this was the problem:
Luckily I had the old sear spring from my Kimber that was replaced when I got a trigger job. I fitted to the Baer and it was up and running again. I was shooting at 15 yards.
I brought my camera along to take pictures of any malfunctions that might occur, but in the remaining 940 rounds, no such thing happened.
My targets, 100 rounds per bull:
After 1000 rounds in about two hours, the gun was quite dirty, but when I racked the slide it was still nice and slick. I find this a testament to both Baer build quality and the quality of my lube. I use FP-10, and even though I brought it with me in case the gun needed some extra, I never had to put more on and it was still wet when I finished.
The floor behind me when I was finished:
And what my hands looked like:
Some dirty pictures:
Its a Les Baer Premier II with the 1.5" and 50 yard guarantee. Here it is beforehand, right after the detail strip and clean I do every 2000 rounds:
A lot of people claim that Baers and the like are too tight to run when dirty, so I loaded up about the dirtiest thing I ever shot, 1000 rounds of 4.8gr Bullseye behind a 230gr LRN.
I went to my local indoor range, ready to enjoy a couple hours of shooting, even brought a Gatorade and a candy bar so I wouldn't get shaky if I was there for a while.
After about sixty rounds, the hammer would only drop to half cock when the trigger was pulled. It turned out this was the problem:
Luckily I had the old sear spring from my Kimber that was replaced when I got a trigger job. I fitted to the Baer and it was up and running again. I was shooting at 15 yards.
I brought my camera along to take pictures of any malfunctions that might occur, but in the remaining 940 rounds, no such thing happened.
My targets, 100 rounds per bull:
After 1000 rounds in about two hours, the gun was quite dirty, but when I racked the slide it was still nice and slick. I find this a testament to both Baer build quality and the quality of my lube. I use FP-10, and even though I brought it with me in case the gun needed some extra, I never had to put more on and it was still wet when I finished.
The floor behind me when I was finished:
And what my hands looked like:
Some dirty pictures:
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