Ive been shooting one belonging to my neighbor. We're back at 35yds on a bench using 230 gr LSWC's 5.1 gr's of Unique, cci300 primers, moderate taper crimp. The loads over my chrony are showing an avg vel of 780 a SD of 8.12 (4 subs of 8) so the loads are consistent, just not grouping very well.
With the rear sight centered the initial poi was way left and the sight had to be be moved almost 1/8" to get centered. Elevation no issue.
The sights are hard to look at with what seems like too wide a front blade and too big a white dot same with the rear but its too narrow. Hard to get a crisp line.
The SA trigger is rough with what seems like a country mile of creep, I smoothed it a little by dry firing forcing the hammer forward a half dozen times with my thumb while pulling the trigger. It did help.
I'd say the jury is out on this one. Chambers well just hate those sights and Im sure from your feed back there is hope for the trigger.
I get far better results with my 1911's off the bench at the same distance but I would expect to.
I dont see changing the loads trying both 5.4 and 5.0 grains and the grouping was about the same. By groups Im saying 8" but I think with some improvement in the sight picture I could cut that in half. Maybe.
We'll see, thanks for the straight feedback.