I hate "CliffHangers"...
I want to know what SA did to fix the problem.
Fifteen, maybe eighteen years ago, I bought an Auto-Ordnance 1911 A-1
from an ad in the Shotgun News for, I think, $240. I know it was a pretty good buy at the time. The only problem was the gun was a POS.
The mag catch stuck so far out into the mag well that it prevented cartridges from sliding out of the magazine into the barrel. Not that that mattered
anyway, because the barrel throat had tool marks in it so deep it looked like you could plant corn in the furrows. It cut grooves in the copper jacket of a
G.I ball round we tried to run through it.
I was furious and wanted to send the gun back, but my brother, the
gunsmith, the one who ordered it for me , talked me into exerting a little
time and effort into "fixing" the problems. So we spent probably two or three
hours with a set of needle files, and a Dremel tool, filing down the mag catch, and polishing out the tool marks in the throat.
That done, we went to the range and proceed to put three hundred rounds through the gun in about two hours. No failures to feed, eject, or fire.
I was pretty happy. I brought the gun home, cleaned it and put it away,
and it hasn't been fired since. I only bought it because the price was right,
and I figured I could always use a spare 1911.
I was lucky that my problems could be taken care of by myself and my
brother, the gunsmith. But then, my problem wasn't a badly milled slide,
which is what it looks to me like clipse's problem may be.
I just want to know what SA is going to do about this.
Walter