Posted: 6/30/2010 7:55:35 PM EDT
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I built a 1911 a while back and it's taken a while to get to the range report.
I was out doing a demo today and finally had a chance to shoot it at 15 yds offhand. I'd taken it out previously only to learn I needed a lower front sight to raise the POI. (frustrating) In the time in between I tweaked the trigger down to around 3.5lbs and it feels really nice now. I built two, one for an Army buddy, and mine is on the left. 
Link to the original youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCmcapwq0E |
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Wow. Great job. What's your build sheet? I took a pair of Firestorm 1911's from the Phillipines and surface ground markings off the slides. I had to recut the front cocking serrations in the process. I then blended the rear of the slide to the frame and fit Ed Brown beavertails and blended those to the frame. I fit and blended Ed brown 25LPI MSH's and took dremel chainsaw sharpening stones and opened the mag wells. I added hex grip screws from Wilson simply because they don't get damaged and look like hell as easily as bladed ones. I ordered custom fit EGW bushings which ended up requiring a little metal removal in the slide to fit. I used the stock barrels and extractors< no problems there but I've since experienced Wilson's extractor and would have gone with that- the geometry is very much improved. The frames were shipped to EGW for 25lpi machine checkering which left a bump I then had to blend into the frame near the trigger guard because there was a little extra metal where it normally shouldn't be when a high cut job is finished. Internally I used 10-8 performance flat triggers, STI EDM sears, Ed Brown hammers, EGW slide stops, a stock sear spring (after the SVI titanium seemed way too weak), a EGW titanium hammer strut and titanium MSH plunger, Wolf 18lb mainsprings with some coils removed since they came over-length with more spring pressure than OEM, a Nighthawk disconnector, Fusion Novak clone tritium sights, and vz blasted black canvas micarta grips. I took a couple Cominolli frame saver guide rods and modified them for GI style length, then added springco 16lb recoil springs and Cylinder and Slide recoil plugs which are "GI style" meaning they have a depressed stamping that grabs a coil on the spring so they don't fly as often when disassembling the pistol. I also fitted a EGW raised shelf mag catch in effort to get a little more optimized magazine fit in the gun. After a range trip I had to order a .150" front sight to replace a .200", bringing the gun into proper zero. The gun got melonited by Flame Metals in Rogers Minnesota I think cost on the project was probably in the arena of $1300 meaning it probably wasn't worth it given comparable guns dealer cost at about $1600 (albeit not melonited and with maybe a MIM'd part or two), but I got a really nice gun out of it and I really am attached to it given the amount of invested time working with files and sandpaper and stripping the gun 60 times fitting various parts. |