Something wrong with my Norinco 1911-A1?

[45shooter]

Well, I finally got a chance to shoot the Norinco with the Colt barrel/link yesterday. I fired 50-60 rounds of WWB from WalMart.

When I got home I took the barrel out and looked at those top lugs and found the middle lug was starting to get peened (just slightly) The first and the last lug seems to have no sign of peening yet but I guess it could show up later if I shoot it more.

I decided to give up on this pistol and throw it in the back of the safe. No sense to put more money into the cheap pistol. I don't want to sell it to someone in this condition as it is or will become unsafe. Maybe I'll stip it out and sell parts off of it later.

Thank you all for your comments, suggestions and input as I learned a lot from it but for now back to my wheel guns.

Live and learn :banghead:

 

[1911Tuner]

re:

Well...With only the #2 lug engaging horizontally, and with approximately 65%
vertical engagement on that one lug...it was bound to happen. If you're ever in my neck of the woods, bring it for a look-see. N/C

How did the rear lug face in the slide fare?

 

[45shooter]

Sorry to bring back this dead horse again but I was given an interesting possible solution last night at the local IDPA match.

One of our club shooter saw this post and suggested I try the pistol with Dwyer Group Gripper spring guide and link system. His reasoning was that since most of the damage looks to be caused by lack of barrel/slide lug engagement the Group Gripper will increase the lug engagement (vertically) by pushing the barrel higher into the slide as the system uses longer barrel link. Does that make sense? Is it a possible short term solution?

BTW the lugs on the slide looks and feels okay. Is the slide harder than the metal used to make barrels?

 

[Azrael256]

Band-aid...

If you want my opinion (and who doesn't?), the Group Gripper is another in a long line of gimmick products to try to squeeze performance out of sub-standard guns. You would be better served to bring a gun up to a high quality standard than to install such a thing.

Unless the group gripper can magically alter lug dimensions, you're still not getting good lug contact.

 

[Dale Taylor]

It is indeed a gimmick. [email protected]