Sig GSR Very Inaccurate?

[CmdrSlander]

I can shoot many handguns accurately, I'm not some god of firearms, I just have good technique, but one particular 1911 is giving me trouble. I cannot shoot the Sig-Sauer GSR Revolution, with several types of ammo, accurately or consistently, it has turned me off SIG. I'm wondering: is it just this gun or are Sig '1911s uniquely tricky in some way?

 

[LiveLife]

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[rellascout]

I can shoot many handguns accurately, I'm not some god of firearms, I just have good technique, but one particular 1911 is giving me trouble. I cannot shoot the Sig-Sauer GSR Revolution, with several types of ammo, accurately or consistently, it has turned me off SIG. I'm wondering: is it just this gun or are Sig '1911s uniquely tricky in some way?

Has anyone else shot the gun? Is the gun shooting high low left or right?

 

[CmdrSlander]

Response

It was just shooting quite strangely, missing the target altogether right after I was driving tacks with my Kimber.

 

[LiveLife]

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[sigarms228]

Actually you are the first person I have ever heard to complain about the accuracy of a GSR 1911. There were some reliability problems with the earlier ones but that has been resolved for probably at least 4-5 years now but most everyone has raved on how accurate they are. I have one and it is the most accurate pistol I have ever shot and also been totally reliable through about 500 rounds now. Mine is in the serial number range of 16xxx .

Wondering if you bought it new or used.

Here is a couple pictures of mine. Second picture is 12 rounds I fired offhand at 25 yards and the target was kind of blurry for me at that distance and because of my eyesight I normally do not shoot beyond 10 yards because that is about the maximum distance where both the sights and target are in good focus for me.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

I owned one of the first 700+ GSRs. I bought it ANIB from a guy who had planned to use it for competition, after having a bit of gunsmithing done on it, but decided to take a different route. I'm not even sure that he ever shot it.

It was always reliable and VERY accurate, with an excellent trigger. Apparently, some of the other early models were problematic. This one wasn't. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not a 1911/.45 guy -- I prefer 9mm and .40, so I traded it away. It was a beauty, and sometime think I screwed up.

Get another shooter to try it -- and if the problem persists, call SIG.

 

[rellascout]

It was always reliable and VERY accurate, with an excellent trigger. Apparently, some of the other early models were problematic. This one wasn't. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not a 1911/.45 guy -- I prefer 9mm and .40, so I traded it away. It was a beauty, and sometime think I screwed up.

The Gen 1 GSR I had was slick... the only problem I ever had was the extractor pin walking out on me. It was dead nuts accurate. I sold it to fund my Les Baer.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

It would have to have a serious manufacturing defect (barrel rattling around in the slide, forgetting to rifle the barrel ) to be actually "inaccurate." With the Revolution Carry I had in 2007, I had no trouble putting two or three bullets close together, but unfortunately that was all I was able to get out of it.

 

[railroader]

CmdrSlander, have you shot it from a rest? If not try that. If it still shoots crappy it least you will know it isn't you. Mark

 

[LiveLife]

CmdrSlander, have you shot it from a rest?

railroader, I was going by what OP posted which indicated that shooting Kimber was like "driving tacks" but with the GSR, "was missing the target altogether".

It was just shooting quite strangely, missing the target altogether right after I was driving tacks with my Kimber.

I wonder how big was the target ... and at what distance.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

If he missed the target altogether, he can't even tell whether he was shooting groups or shotgun-like patterns!!

He needs to pull that target in, shoot closer, and see WHAT IS GOING ON!!

It cold be something as simple as screwed up sights. (I picked up a S&W 4506 a while back, that was shooting 5-6" low at 30'. Totally WRONG front sight had gotten installed, somewhere along the line.) Once I got the front sight changed, the gun started shooting like it was supposed to shoot.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

It uses a Novak rear sight which is held in a somewhat loose dovetail with a set screw. Is it possible that the rear sight has come loose and is shifting from side to side?

 

[LiveLife]

I agree, it may simply be just sight adjustment. Really interested in the target size and distance.

OP could always shoot a closer target (say 5 yards) and move back towards the distance he was shooting the Kimber to verify if it was sight adjustment issue.

(I went back and deleted my previous posts)