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4/20/2006 8:11:06 AM EDT
How do Auto-Ordnance 1911s compare with SA?
4/20/2006 8:15:15 AM EDT
[#1]
if your just going to look at it. there same.

If you plan on using the pistol there is a world of difference.
4/20/2006 9:17:24 AM EDT
[#2]

Quoted:
if your just going to look at it. there same.

If you plan on using the pistol there is a world of difference.



OK...

So the difference is...?

4/20/2006 10:25:50 AM EDT
[#3]
Auto Ord is generally teh suck///Gravity Tester and I did make one work...but by fully gutting and retro fitting it with good parts...it's quite a shooter
4/20/2006 3:06:12 PM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:
How do Auto-Ordnance 1911s compare with SA?



I think most people would prefer a Rock Island.  I've dinked with a couple different A/O's over the years and would not recommend one.
4/20/2006 3:54:19 PM EDT
[#5]
I must be the only one who got a good one, pre-Kahr at least. After polishing the feed ramp and replacing the mag that came with it with a couple of Wilsons, it has been 100% with all but one brand of JHP.
FWIW
YMMV
4/20/2006 3:56:10 PM EDT
[#6]
AO has had quality issues since ww1 with their then new tommy gun.now kahr owns them.maby after all these years AO will shine?nawwwwwwwwwww!
4/20/2006 4:29:49 PM EDT
[#7]

Quoted:
AO has had quality issues since ww1 with their then new tommy gun.now kahr owns them.maby after all these years AO will shine?nawwwwwwwwwww!



My last A/O was a Kahr product that a buddy of mine talked me into buying.  I told Billy the guns were junk and he swore that Kahr was great and this gun would be, too.  It wouldn't even feed ball.  I sent it back and it came back just as unreliable.

I will say that I saw one of the newer Kahr pistols at a gunshow a couple months ago.  It was a tricked out factory model with a beavertail, etc.  It actually looked pretty goodf.  But the price was awfully close to the Springfield Loaded, which is what I'd get for similar or slightly more money.

Springfield has a very well deserved reputation for customer service.  Plus they hold their value and the company is very supportive of the firearms and competition community.
4/22/2006 6:13:23 AM EDT
[#8]
Get the Springfield.