Captaingyro
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I just bought a used 1911. It's a Colt's Mark IV Series 70 that's been accurized.
It has a Kart barrel and adjustable rear sight by STI. It's tight all around (requires a bushing wrench to take down), and the action is silky smooth. The trigger is much better than stock, but still has just a little bit of creep. It's obviously been shot and carried, but well cared-for.
I had a couple of competent gunsmiths check it out, and had a chance to shoot it before I bought it. It's a very accurate shooter (hit a prairie dog popper at 70 yards a couple of times), and function seems absolutely normal.
So what's wrong? Maybe nothing, but I just disassembled it for cleaning, and noticed that there's a notch gouged into the rear of the plug. The notch is about the width of the lug, and about three millimeters deep. It almost appears that at some time in the past the plug was hammering against the lug during recoil, but there's no polishing on the lug to indicate that it's been repeatedly hit.
So what do you think could be going on? The plug appears perfectly normal other than the notch, and the gun functions and shoots well.
It has a Kart barrel and adjustable rear sight by STI. It's tight all around (requires a bushing wrench to take down), and the action is silky smooth. The trigger is much better than stock, but still has just a little bit of creep. It's obviously been shot and carried, but well cared-for.
I had a couple of competent gunsmiths check it out, and had a chance to shoot it before I bought it. It's a very accurate shooter (hit a prairie dog popper at 70 yards a couple of times), and function seems absolutely normal.
So what's wrong? Maybe nothing, but I just disassembled it for cleaning, and noticed that there's a notch gouged into the rear of the plug. The notch is about the width of the lug, and about three millimeters deep. It almost appears that at some time in the past the plug was hammering against the lug during recoil, but there's no polishing on the lug to indicate that it's been repeatedly hit.
So what do you think could be going on? The plug appears perfectly normal other than the notch, and the gun functions and shoots well.