I think your old spring still worked, in any case you should change the recoil sring as son as you start getting failures to return to battery while feeding. Especially compact pistols require more frequent length recoil spring changes than standard pistols. Then if you like me use a shock buffer, if it has become torn a few hundred rounds after installation, that means that your recoil spring should be replaced.
Originality can't be restored, so put "originality" at the top of a priority list. If JMB didn't put it on the 1911 you don't need it.
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