Nightcrawler
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I must say, I love it. Was firing at paper targets at a range of...hell, I don't know, must've been 10 yards, maybe a little more. Wasn't shooting "groups" so much as I was shooting patterns. Now, I don't shoot groups much anyway, but with the CZ-97 I'm typically in the black part of the targets with all of my shots...not so much with the Colt. I wasn't doing so hot, though, and I think that that was me and not the pistol.
I improved a great deal when I stopped shooting at paper and lined up some small wood blocks and shot at those. Missed a couple times, but I was knocking them off one after another (they were about 5x3" or so, and varied).
I fired 90 rounds; forty Winchester White Box and fifty Magtech, all 230 grain ball ammunition. I was using the two Colt factory seven round magazines that came with the pistol, and I experienced no malfunctions of any kind (whereas my CZ-97 occasionally jammed on hardball while it was being broken in).
I'm digging the single action only trigger. While the CZ-97 can be carried locked and cocked, it still has a DA/SA trigger that, while being very smooth, isn't quite as nice as the crisp let-off of the Colt. I am going to need to get an ambi safety put on there. Probably not one of those extended safeties you see on Springfield loaded models; but a shorter, standard safety, just ambi. (On a Springfield loaded I handled once, the safety on the left side of the frame, when in the "fire" position, touched the top of my trigger finger on my left hand, and it bothered me.)
Also, those checkered grips are going to get replaced with some nice Hogue Pao Ferro (or whatever they call it) smooth laminate walnut ones.
The mag release button has loosened up some. I think half the problem with it is the angle my trigger finger pushes the button at. I'll have to work on it, because the tip of my finger started to hurt from pushing that button. If worse comes to worse, could I get an ambidextrious or reversed magazine release installed?
All in all, I'm quite happy with my purchase. I recommend the new rollstamp Colt Government Model to anyone interested in an M1911A1 style pistol.
I improved a great deal when I stopped shooting at paper and lined up some small wood blocks and shot at those. Missed a couple times, but I was knocking them off one after another (they were about 5x3" or so, and varied).
I fired 90 rounds; forty Winchester White Box and fifty Magtech, all 230 grain ball ammunition. I was using the two Colt factory seven round magazines that came with the pistol, and I experienced no malfunctions of any kind (whereas my CZ-97 occasionally jammed on hardball while it was being broken in).
I'm digging the single action only trigger. While the CZ-97 can be carried locked and cocked, it still has a DA/SA trigger that, while being very smooth, isn't quite as nice as the crisp let-off of the Colt. I am going to need to get an ambi safety put on there. Probably not one of those extended safeties you see on Springfield loaded models; but a shorter, standard safety, just ambi. (On a Springfield loaded I handled once, the safety on the left side of the frame, when in the "fire" position, touched the top of my trigger finger on my left hand, and it bothered me.)
Also, those checkered grips are going to get replaced with some nice Hogue Pao Ferro (or whatever they call it) smooth laminate walnut ones.
The mag release button has loosened up some. I think half the problem with it is the angle my trigger finger pushes the button at. I'll have to work on it, because the tip of my finger started to hurt from pushing that button. If worse comes to worse, could I get an ambidextrious or reversed magazine release installed?
All in all, I'm quite happy with my purchase. I recommend the new rollstamp Colt Government Model to anyone interested in an M1911A1 style pistol.
