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1911 build help...filed the sear too short
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<blockquote data-quote="1911user" data-source="post: 1228005" data-attributes="member: 543"><p>A buddy had something like that happen with a brand new Auto Ordnance 45 about 20 years ago. He found out the hard way that they were having quality control and perhaps financial issues at the time. </p><p></p><p>He started with a full mag. The first trigger pull resulted in a double (2 rounds downrange). Before I could say anything, he pulled the trigger again and it tripled (3 shots downrange with the last one over the berm; hope it didn't hit a cow). He took the pistol apart later that day. It was full of used, crappy, unfitted, junk parts.... He trashed those and replaced them with good Wilson parts and the pistol has worked great since then. </p><p></p><p>Unsolicited advice: when you do get around to firing this homemade 1911, start with only snap caps in the mag and make sure the hammer won't follow just from dropping the slide and loading the snap cap. Do that 20-30 times before even thinking about testing with live ammo. From there, only load 1 live round in the mag each time for the next 25-50 rounds. For each mag, first load a snap cap (or dummy round) then load the 1 live round. That will show if the pistol is going to double (or worse) without spraying bullets everywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1911user, post: 1228005, member: 543"] A buddy had something like that happen with a brand new Auto Ordnance 45 about 20 years ago. He found out the hard way that they were having quality control and perhaps financial issues at the time. He started with a full mag. The first trigger pull resulted in a double (2 rounds downrange). Before I could say anything, he pulled the trigger again and it tripled (3 shots downrange with the last one over the berm; hope it didn't hit a cow). He took the pistol apart later that day. It was full of used, crappy, unfitted, junk parts.... He trashed those and replaced them with good Wilson parts and the pistol has worked great since then. Unsolicited advice: when you do get around to firing this homemade 1911, start with only snap caps in the mag and make sure the hammer won't follow just from dropping the slide and loading the snap cap. Do that 20-30 times before even thinking about testing with live ammo. From there, only load 1 live round in the mag each time for the next 25-50 rounds. For each mag, first load a snap cap (or dummy round) then load the 1 live round. That will show if the pistol is going to double (or worse) without spraying bullets everywhere. [/QUOTE]
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