I'm pretty excited to add this gun to my collection. I'm a big 1911 fan, love 45acp, and mag swaps are neat. I really am more into the wood furniture styles, old school I guess. Anyway, wanted to share and ask a few questions.
First of all it is a beautiful gun, I'll try to get the picture here from my phone in a minute. Wood is near perfect, as far as I can tell, metal is shiny. Exactly what I wanted and I think I got a fair deal on it.
The bad, the recoil buffer has disintegrated and looked like tater chip crumbs when I took the wood off. Also, it does not want to feed. Hoping a new buffer and a cleaning will help that. I used reloaded ammo, that runs perfectly in both my 1911s. I have an original Marlin mag in the gun, tried a couple of my other mags as well, but they felt tight going into the mag well. There is no name or markings on them, but again, they function perfectly in my 1911.. My other mags are packed away, as we are redoing the house (a loooong story I don't want to talk about!). I understand I am talking about two guns, and what works in one might not work in another.
It appears the bullets, 230 gr round nose, are not riding up the feed ramp, and it appears (to me) the barrel is too far back for the ramp. It happened with all the mags I had. I pried up the tip of the bullet a little and it then loaded and fired. I am in the process of googling, but I just know someone here can save me the 1.9 million hits I'll have to wade through.
Also, where is the best place to get another buffer? MIdway, Brownells, somewhere else?
Thanks guys.
First of all it is a beautiful gun, I'll try to get the picture here from my phone in a minute. Wood is near perfect, as far as I can tell, metal is shiny. Exactly what I wanted and I think I got a fair deal on it.
The bad, the recoil buffer has disintegrated and looked like tater chip crumbs when I took the wood off. Also, it does not want to feed. Hoping a new buffer and a cleaning will help that. I used reloaded ammo, that runs perfectly in both my 1911s. I have an original Marlin mag in the gun, tried a couple of my other mags as well, but they felt tight going into the mag well. There is no name or markings on them, but again, they function perfectly in my 1911.. My other mags are packed away, as we are redoing the house (a loooong story I don't want to talk about!). I understand I am talking about two guns, and what works in one might not work in another.
It appears the bullets, 230 gr round nose, are not riding up the feed ramp, and it appears (to me) the barrel is too far back for the ramp. It happened with all the mags I had. I pried up the tip of the bullet a little and it then loaded and fired. I am in the process of googling, but I just know someone here can save me the 1.9 million hits I'll have to wade through.
Also, where is the best place to get another buffer? MIdway, Brownells, somewhere else?
Thanks guys.
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