Well hey there guys thought I’d drop in for a visit, well you know me I’m a huge fan of the 1911 and you seen I’ve been trying to do some Bulleye shooting but a few weeks ago I came to the realization that my old 1911 had too much play to be accurate for this style shooting. So big decision time I needed a new 1911, now had just enough cash to go on the low price range and seeing my birthday was coming up I picked up a Springfield range officer. Now the reviews were good on it but it had a lot of injected parts in it the frame and slide are forged steel and a stainless barrel and bushing. The frame to slide fit was really tight and the bushing needs a wrench to remove it, so for me that was the important part but all the other parts were injected parts on it and I figured I could just change them out as needed. So off to the range a week later after dehorning the edges and looking for any other things that may cause issues. Now to be fair guns are made to run on full loads but Bulleye run fairly light loads and I knew the gun had to be smooth. There would be some time spent refining, recut the sear and tuned the sear spring and lighter recoil spring and got 3 lb 2 ozs on the trigger that breaks like glass. Went out and fired 200 rounds and at the end felt like just wasn’t right. So came home and start looking and measuring parts. It was doing a reverse stove pipe where the back of the case was high and jamming. Come to find out the extractor was .020 short on the front hook and that was an injected part, not even going to deal with Springfield on that. I just took the Wilson extractor from my other gun for now but this gun will out shoot me for sure and so will some young and older bucks. I enjoy the challenge and couldn’t afford a high end 1911 but if you have some skill this gun is a good building format. By any means I’m not the best shot but get my moments and at 17 yards and a 3 inch target that’s smaller than the front sight it’s hard. So here a few of my old eye targets as yes iron sights. All in all if you where going to shoot hardball it probably be fine but I’m pushing to the limits for what I want to do so there be some work to do on my end. Now for my update on this gun, I’ve been shooting it for a little while now and I know the gun is dead nuts on when I bench it but when I go one handed it would be hit or miss on the days I shot it. Done a lot of reading one Bullseye but finally ran across some videos from Brian Zins and it help me quite a bit. I only do for my own enjoyment and don’t want to join any league. Nice to know I can cast my own bullets and load my own ammo and get some good results from my efforts but can be frustrating at times which makes me want to do it better. So here are few of my good targets can’t do this all the time but when I do this makes this old man smile.
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and from today
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and this one made me happy