Lesson in humility......

USMC6094

USMC6094

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I took it upon myself to do a "simple" spring replacement on my 1918 Colt 1911, its a between the wars custom so nobody get apoplectic.........
Recoil and firing pin springs were no sweat, then I got to the sear, disconnector, and grip safety spring.......hello cold sweat and head scratching, but I got figured out.
Only other issue was/is the slide stop plunger and spring....the thumb safety detent went into the new spring like it was meant to, not so with the slide stop detent, but I have a fix for it.
Tomorrow...she'll back together
 
Chdamn said:
Wait till you have the sear leaf break off of one of those so it fires full auto when you chamber a round. Lol. Good times.
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Ugh......I hope to hell I don't have to go through that lol
 
USMC6094 said:
Ugh......I hope to hell I don't have to go through that lol
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Luckily when it happened I only had one round in the mag. I was testing a build. Put it all together and function tested it about 20 times. Safety and everything worked great.

On the very last test the leaf must have broken. I put a round in the mag to make sure there would be no chambering issues, pointed it at the floor and blammo.

It ricocheted off the hard wood floor and went into the ceiling. Didn’t go through and then fell back to the floor.

My wife was sitting next to me on the couch and we both almost wet her panties.

But I know a guy that put a full mag in after a range day since it was his carry gun. He was standing by his truck and loading the mag from a box on the seat. Put 7 holes in the floor of his truck lol.
 
Chdamn said:
Luckily when it happened I only had one round in the mag. I was testing a build. Put it all together and function tested it about 20 times. Safety and everything worked great.

On the very last test the leaf must have broken. I put a round in the mag to make sure there would be no chambering issues, pointed it at the floor and blammo.

It ricocheted off the hard wood floor and went into the ceiling. Didn’t go through and then fell back to the floor.

My wife was sitting next to me on the couch and we both almost wet her panties.

But I know a guy that put a full mag in after a range day since it was his carry gun. He was standing by his truck and loading the mag from a box on the seat. Put 7 holes in the floor of his truck lol.
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:D:D

I had to laugh out loud at the end....
 
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