First 7 rds/20yds from peened rail junker mentioned above, the high shot was where slide did not quite fully close for 1 sec and then closed. No further malfs, including speed dump, hit empty ammo box 4 for 7 at 50yds. I do believe it's time to parkerize frame. Past the late issue slide, the gun all RR WWII issue including High Standard barrel whose lugs not even in same zip code as slide stop.
PS- looked up the cage code for GI slide, and it would not pass for a Vietnam rebuild, this supplier was assigned their long lapsed code in 1974...but, close enough for government work...I do know one guy stationed in Afghanistan rooted through about 1/3 of his unit's 1911s and of circa 90 inventoried, between 30 and 40 had this slide on the guns...
PPS- there was no special skill involved past using the right file for the job and having some idea as to smoking parts or using DyeChem to look for interference/high spots. Maybe knowing peened rails most likely to be lower and wider so that bottom and sides of frame rails the areas most likely to need filing, and that doing anything much to top of frame would only lower slide and have maybe center then hitting....no barrel lug or hood welding/recutting...just get the slide on...and then it shot like this where I was truly expecting a lot more problems as for function, as well as buckshot patterns only hopefully somewhere on the paper, maybe...so, maybe I should have played the lottery instead, except I just did and won.
PS- looked up the cage code for GI slide, and it would not pass for a Vietnam rebuild, this supplier was assigned their long lapsed code in 1974...but, close enough for government work...I do know one guy stationed in Afghanistan rooted through about 1/3 of his unit's 1911s and of circa 90 inventoried, between 30 and 40 had this slide on the guns...
PPS- there was no special skill involved past using the right file for the job and having some idea as to smoking parts or using DyeChem to look for interference/high spots. Maybe knowing peened rails most likely to be lower and wider so that bottom and sides of frame rails the areas most likely to need filing, and that doing anything much to top of frame would only lower slide and have maybe center then hitting....no barrel lug or hood welding/recutting...just get the slide on...and then it shot like this where I was truly expecting a lot more problems as for function, as well as buckshot patterns only hopefully somewhere on the paper, maybe...so, maybe I should have played the lottery instead, except I just did and won.
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