OK, just for a little fun (and since the picture thread seems to be closed), here's what an SR1911 looks like after 100 rounds of Winchester white box 230 gr loads.
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The pistol was purchased new about a month ago and to my great surprise it required a break-in period. It experienced a lot of feeding issues when using Wilson Combat 8-round magazines, but after 250 rounds things seem to be settling in nicely. For the record, this pistol has been 100% reliable with the factory Ruger magazines, but being an old 1911 guy I had a bag of Wilson mags I want to use with it, and my experience has been that EVERYTHING runs fine with Wilson magazines.
The ambidextrous safety is the Novak model sold by Ruger. This was something of a disappointment. The factory single sided safety is clearly molded (yes, it's MIM) to fit the SR1911's sear geometry and is essentially a drop-in part (mine showed no evidence of hand fitting yet mated well with the sear). The Ruger 'Novak' ambi safety is nothing more than an off-the-shelf Novak part with a Ruger sticker on it. Shame on Ruger. If they are selling this as being specific to the SR1911 then they should have them produced closer to the factory original geometry. As it was, the Novak safety required an extensive amount of fitting to work.
Still, the SR1911 is a great pistol. It's very well made, accuracy is good, the trigger is good and of course Ruger will stand behind it for as long as I own it.
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