Oiling your 1911

wvsig said:
I am not disagreeing with you as much as elaborating. I think there is a segment of 1911 shooters who believe a tight 1911 will be unreliable which has not been my experience owning Les Baer, Custom smithed Colts, Alchemy customs, GI, Nighthawk as well as Colts, Dan Wessons, S&Ws, SA, RIA etc....
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Tight can mean two different things. Some guns that are tight have been carefully fit and others that are tight have been improperly/incompletely fit. If you have to smack the slide out of battery or fire it 1000 times to "break in" you (the generic "you", not anyone in particular) have the latter.
 
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wvsig said:
I think there is a segment of 1911 shooters who believe a tight 1911 will be unreliable

Rattle trap loose doesn't guarantee reliability any more than tight as a drum guarantees accuracy.

But, there is tight and there is overly tight...as in poorly fitted.

And overly loose can and often does work against reliability, especially in adverse conditions. The looser it is, the larger the opening for more and larger debris to get into the works.
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I don't think a 1911 built to original specs has a problem with either reliability or accuracy.

I'm all about "building a better gun", but in my opinion if one builds one of these "better guns" and ends up with a finicky, faulty, or otherwise problematic pistol as a result, then that doesn't mean "1911s suck". What it means is THEIR 1911s suck.
 
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