Norinco 1911

[Lafeswede]

Fitting

Please range test any Norinco gun first. I bought mine mail order and it was the lousiest gun I ever shot! 15-20 lbs trigger pull and miserable accuracy. Like, 10 inches at 25 meters. ( it was the first gun that shot worse than I did) Cost me three times the initial cost to get it fixed. It is now a one inch shooter, but I still have enough extraction issues not to use it for national competition. It is my first 1911 gun, but not the final one,
Sail safe
Lafeswede

 

[woad_yurt]

A .45 for a dollar and a beer? I'd have grabbed it the moment it was mentioned.

 

[19112XS]

Sometimes that's all it takes to make things worse

Tuner knows of what he speaks. Bubba rolled the top edge off the feed ramp of his Nork, found he had screwed it up and sold it to me. Tuner spent quite some time bringing it back to reliability. I suggest you take the pistol out and shoot it before you buy.

 

[jar_head]

ok ill be taking the gun out this weekend to go shoot. i spoke to another friend who has shot the 1911 and he confirmed that it could have just been ammo as they were shooting reloads and every 3,4 shell stovepiped and when they filled 3 mags full of blacktalons it shot just fine. what ill do is take a box of really bad reloads and then a box of factory/carry and see what happens. either way for the cost of the pistol im sure its fine. from the sounds of things a fairly decent norinco should go for around $300-$400 so if thats the case i can spend $200 on getting it right and still save money.

which wolf spring should i look at getting to try sort out this problem? what is std lb in the norinco spring? what do the different lb do to the function of the gun? less/more recoil?

 

[chrlefxtrt]

How often does your friend "oil" said gun?
A light coat of oil on the insides can go a long way. JMHO

Also you might "buff" the ramp (not with a file mind you).

When I bought my SA GI new it didn't want to feed properly so I

1-stopped shooting Wolf thru it, still hiccupped
2-polished the feed ramp, better
3-broke in the recoil spring, better
4-gave the slide a good ol' oilin', wallah no problems since
One or all of these might help it feed better

 

[1911Tuner]

Bubba rolled the top edge off the feed ramp of his Nork, found he had screwed it up and sold it to me. Tuner spent quite some time bringing it back to reliability.

Whew! That one nearly beat me, 2XS. If I knew where to find Bubba, I'd go beat all his fingers flat with a ball-peen hammer.

Also you might "buff" the ramp

See above. I spent about 14 hours getting 2XS' pistol to run after the feed ramp had been "buffed" by Dremel Dan and his handy-dandy moto tool...6 hours of which were spent in peening the frame rails and refitting the slide. The rest was in addressing the ramp/barrel geometry to get the flippin' thing to run. It wouldn't even get through a magazine full of fresh, factory hardball, and no...it assuredly wasn't the magazines.

The pistol now greedily consumes all manner of ammunition...but it didn't come easily.

Take that Dremel out in the street and run over it with your car 2-3 times so you won't be tempted to touch your pistol with it.

 

[jar_head]

ok well when he said buff i think it was more of a clean. he doesnt play like dan!! well ill take it to the range and see how she performs but for the price i still think ill get it.

 

[chrlefxtrt]

Maybe I should have said "polish to a high sheen". Geez! It's not like I told him to take a file to it.

I used a very fine sandpaper and a "polishing" cloth. It worked wonders.
If anybody wants to know how I once filed a ramp on a Llama and accidentally got it to work again, I'd be more than happy to tell them

 

[chrlefxtrt]

jar_head: This does sound like a good gun to "tinker with" though if you so choose.

 

[chrlefxtrt]

BTW, I don't think I've used my dremel since I made a "no girls allowed" sign for my shop directed at my wife

 

[1911Tuner]

I used a very fine sandpaper and a "polishing" cloth.

Feed ramps can be screwed up with sandpaper, too...it just takes longer.

Rule to live by:

Before you cut, file, grind, sand, lap, or polish anything...be sure that you've exhausted all other possible, non-invasive cures for the problem. Polishing the feed ramp isn't a first response cure-all for feeding problems, and can very often make things worse. At the very least, it makes things much easier for those of us who have to follow up and correct the problems.

Whenever I get a call on a 1911 pistol with feeding issues...and the caller tells me: "I done done me a killer ramp and throat job on'er, and it still don't feed wurth doodly-squat." I go ahead and start takin' Excedrin Migraine a few hours ahead of time.

 

[Beowolf1911]

for less the $50 I would take any gun in good shape...... even a high point lol.