Left side.jpgMy first post on this forum. I've been a 1911 user since buying my first one in 1976.
I bought the Auto Ordnance because it is most similar to the Colts. New Colts can no longer be purchased in California, and used ones are going for prices far higher than new ones in the other states. So, I took a chance on the Auto Ordnance, and now am doubting the wisdom of that choice. I've noticed some issues with my Auto Ordnance 1911. I've taken it to the range 3 times and have a total of only 101 rounds through it. This week will be it's 4th trip to the gunsmith in the 2 months I've owned it. Experience has shown that 1911s tend to get better once "broken in", so I'm going to keep trying with this one for now.
1) In just 101 rounds I've had 4 Failures To Chamber. These have taken place with magazines and handholds that work flawlessly in my Colt pistols.
2) On one trip to the range the first round fired, then no further ones would, due to extremely light primer strikes. This was found to be a problem with the series 80 type firing pin block, which the gunsmith corrected.
3) Even after a trigger job I'm getting widely varying trigger weights. I bought a digital trigger scale and weighed 20 dry-fires with my Colt Government Model, which has a trigger action i consider to be perfect (trigger job done by the same gunsmith 6 months ago). I then did the same with the 1911. I compared the variations in the trigger weights. The results confirmed that trigger pull is excessively inconsistent (wide variations).
Is anybody else finding such frustrations? What did you do to get past it all? I try to be positive, remembering a time when Colt's quality control was seriously lacking and new Colts needed multiple trips to the gunsmith before working correctly.
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