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Posted: 6/6/2001 5:58:17 PM EDT
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My MkIV Series 70 National Match Gold Cup has a little over 4000 and still going strong. Heard the weak collet bushing story years ago and you are the first, first hand account I've experienced.
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Posted: 6/6/2001 6:04:48 PM EDT
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You have hit on one of my favorite gripes.
My first handgun was a Series 70 which I purchased in 1971 when I was in the Army. It had the 4-finger bushing. It was totally unreliable. Constant failure to come to battery. I practically learned to be a gun smith on that piece. I polished all metal to metal contacts, got emery cloth and polished the ramp, the inside of the slide, polished the o.d. of the barrel, "broke" the edges on the locking groves, tried different recoil springs -- everything and it still hung up. I started having nightmares about malfunctions. Then finally I bought a simple GI bushing and it never hung up again. Boy, was I p*****. I had even called Colts and they couldn't imagine what was wrong. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???? This firearm was stock, in no way a target piece. Reliability should have been #1. |
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Posted: 6/6/2001 6:07:31 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Liberty Ship: You have hit on one of my favorite gripes. My first handgun was a Series 70 which I purchased in 1971 when I was in the Army. It had the 4-finger bushing. It was totally unreliable. Constant failure to come to battery. I practically learned to be a gun smith on that piece. I polished all metal to metal contacts, got emery cloth and polished the ramp, the inside of the slide, polished the o.d. of the barrel, "broke" the edges on the locking groves, tried different recoil springs -- everything and it still hung up. I started having nightmares about malfunctions. Then finally I bought a simple GI bushing and it never hung up again. Boy, was I p*****. I had even called Colts and they couldn't imagine what was wrong. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???? This firearm was stock, in no way a target piece. Reliability should have been #1. |
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Posted: 6/7/2001 7:40:04 AM EDT
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I got a series 80 Gold Cup when they came out in stainless back around '85-'86. It was a Christmas present from my Dad. I was a college student at the time, so I didn't really get to shoot it that much(no money for ammo, didn't have a reloading press yet) I'm not sure of the exact round count, maybe 2 thousand or so, but a finger broke off of the collet bushing in '90 sometime during the summer. Match grade bushing was installed and never looked back. I lost the front site that same day and had a Millet installed. That lasted until last year, and now I have a dovetailed front site-much better in my opinion.
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Posted: 6/7/2001 8:14:49 AM EDT
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Heard that story years ago, I keep spare parts anyway, and feel better about the solid bushing. The real horror story seems to be the Officers model...when the little lug breaks off the bushing plug ( I have yet to see it happen )
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Posted: 6/7/2001 8:19:15 AM EDT
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Speaking of bushings on the 1911 - have any of you tried (or know anything about) the various bushing recoil compensators out there? Are they any good?
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Posted: 6/7/2001 8:30:00 AM EDT
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Don't waste your time with the bushing comps. Worse than useless.
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Posted: 6/7/2001 9:02:09 AM EDT
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Quoted: Heard that story years ago, I keep spare parts anyway, and feel better about the solid bushing. The real horror story seems to be the Officers model...when the little lug breaks off the bushing plug ( I have yet to see it happen ) |
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