Posted: 10/31/2004 7:26:25 AM EDT
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I got to shoot the for the first time yesterday. Nice feeling little piece, the beveled MSH really makes this baby 1911 a keeper for me! Kimer's baby OACP & previous SA Micro's all cut into my palm. Recoil was certainly not uncomfortable despite the alloy frame & obviously much shorter slide. I was shooting PMC 230gr cheap stuff FMJ. The Micro also has a ramped barrel, a nice addition for sure. I shot from about 15-18 feet, nothing major. Groups were initially off to the right & averaging about 4" or so. I wasn't trying any sort of bullseye effort but did want some grouping idea of what it'd do. Groups did tighten up after about 50-60 rds. The point-of-impact also changed from 3" off to the right of the bullseye to pretty close to point-of-aim. Could be the gun breaking in, could be me adjusting, could be both in whatever porportion. The gun had a couple failure to go into complete battery. The gun is actually pretty tight, it'll loosen some as I shoot another couple hundred rds thru it & oil it real good. I bought with the gun two 7rd Chip McCormick mags, both worked as well as expected. I've also discovered it's a bitch to shoot a gun with bifocals! PITA! This gun will, maybe, replace my USP compact .357Sig as my main carry piece. It's a damn sight smaller & in .45acp to boot. Hard combo to beat, even for an H&K. The Micro is still a few hundred rds away from even being considered to be a carry gun though. It does have a kinda cool recoil spring set-up, a double captive spring system so parts won't got flying all over creation during a detail strip. Which reminds me, I have to learn how to do that with its ambi safety. Was it worth it? So far, yes. YMMV. |
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Shot it again today, 150rds total. Accuracy is much improved over the first time but that may be my getting used to it as well. This session had only one failure to feed in the entire session, not bad & it should get better. No sharp edges on the gun, it balances well & is nicely accurate for a tiny 3" barrel. I'd buy it again, something I can't say about all of my past purchases. Kimber owners have nothing on this gun! SA did an outstanding job on this design. |