I bought it last week and shot it today, accuracy was good as it was suppossed to be about and inch at 15 yards, probably would have been better but the only thing on hand was some American Manufacturing ammo, it normally shoots O.K. A couple guy's at the club shot it and did a better than I. I purchased it at the gun shop in our area for $800.00 including tax, I could'nt pass it up and now I am glad I did'nt, I did however jam a few times after the 3rd. shot I hope with shooting it cleans up. It also could be cleaned up a little at the bottom of the grip for sharp edges on where you put the mag in. but overall I am happy with it. It does shoot better than other's I have owned, and had the features I like, and yes I like the rail on it. And tommorrow I will be out trying the 1911A1 Colt I inherited, this one is in great shape for being a pistol made in 1942. anyway thank's Allan.

Congrats on your new toy, you lucky dog.

Could you post some pictures please?

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If you don't have time to do it right; when will you have time to do it over?

Sooo........

You say yours "jammed", eh. As in, failure to feed?

I actually like the aesthetics of the GSR (even if most of my 1911 bigot homies don't....). HOWEVER, the damned thing has failure to feed problems in spades!

One of many 1911 format pistols I own.. this thing has over 800 rounds through it and dozens, scores of feed failures...I have many "smiley faces" to reflect on. I have fed this obstinant thing reloads from 1.250 to 1.270, factory RN, and three flavors of FJHP ...all with the same problem. Four different magazine brands too!

I finally sent it off to a competent smith who says that the ramp needs some tuning. I will report back when it returns. Hope he is right, and some simple refinement does the trick.

One interesting fact is that the extractor does its job. Despite complaints (more bigotry, perhaps?) about the external extractor, I have had no problem tossing cases. We will see when it returns home.

BTW, I consulted Sigarms as all this developed....their advice was that it wants to "run wet". Right. I lubed this bad boy until it was like a baby's bottom...same problem.

Interested in others experience with this expensive firearm.

You know that seems to be Sigs advice on everything, "they like to run wet" . My experience with the GSR was only brief, as I did not own it, it was a gun sent to my friend who writes articles for On Target magazine. The 2 received did not impress me for the price, but seem to have a lot of potential with some work on the trigger and a better fit of barrel. I do like the look of them though.

Did you notice where American Manufacturing ammo was made or what the headstamp was?

I got my balky GSR back from my gunsmith. He tuned the extractor, polished the ramp, and did some work on the throat of the barrel. The trigger has been acceptable; so I didn't ask him to do any refinement on that. I just wanted the darned thing to cycle reliably. And now it does. At least it did so for 200 rounds. I will drag it out for some occassional exercise and make sure its reliably lives up to its price tag.

wildon1911s,

I like the look of it too. I guess I am not a "purist" about the 1911. It seems legit to explore the format and develop variants. Although, it has been interesting observing the exchange about the GSR on this forum. As far as it "running wet" my post tune-up GSR ran through the 200 rounds without an unusually high amount of lubrication. So maybe the "run wet" advice is a "red herring"?

My GSR has been perfect. Better than my Wilson I am sorry to say. Anyways I think yall are being to hard on SIG due to everybody had to start somewhere. Look at Kimber, there whole thing when they came out was off Brownings design. They had ambi's,mag wells, ect. Don't hate Sig because they want some pie too!

I have been informed by my local Law Enforcement firearms distributor that the Sig GSR will not be available to Police agencies for another 8-9 months due to reliability issues. After reading several of these threads, I feel that it is ludicrous that after spending $900.00 for a handgun, you still have to send it to a gunsmith so it will function properly. If we are being hard on these manufacturers, it is justified. A firearm purchased for self defense should work out of the box.........period !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mmm, how does one tune an external extractor?

I probably use terminology "tuning" loosely or inaccurately. The way I understand the term "tuning" applied to a conventional internal 1911 extractor is two things. The first is the adjustment of the tension of the leaf spring that the extractor really is. Tuning can also include some polishing(?) or refinement of the head of the extractor. Since the external extractor isn't a leaf spring, the "tuning" does not include adjustment of the tension like a conventional one. But can't the head of the extractor be refined? I actually didn't ask. But it does cause me to ask also about the variables that would affect the tension of the external extractor (there is some spring involved here, right?) and how or if it can be adjusted. The other thing I assume is that the competence required to adjust the tension on an internal 1911 extractor is one motivation for employing an external extractor. The skill and experience level of the smith could be less a factor with the external extractor. I guess a REALLY badly adjusted internal extractor (like if I took my meat hooks to one) could become a substitute firing pin. Not sure about that, but having looked at them carefully, I guess it's possible. Even though I can disassemble and reassemble (except my Kimber) a 1911, I am not a gunsmith. Next time I talk to the mine, I will ask him what can be done with an external extractor. Can anyone here fill me in?