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First post. I'm building two 1911 commanders, both 10mm. The sick one has an aluminum frame with barrel extension just because... Both are evil looking in phosphate/dull black hard-anodizing, but the nice twin also has an elegant damascus slide, and the evil one has a beefy slide from Fusion (in black, it has the lines of a Soviet limosine). Pre-build now, just waiting on the parts. So I have a few things to consider: I'm using a Colt stainless match barrel in the nicer twin (she's all steel) and I'm assuming that with good brass like Starline the lack of cartridge head support inherent in the classic Browning design won't be an issue with hotter commercial ammo and reloads. I mean, I don't much care if cases bulge and can't be reloaded so long as they extract and there are no blowouts. I assume the usual pressure signs would still be there to warn me I'm getting close to a risky situation, but I have no experience at all with 10mm---never fired one. It can't be any more interesting than my beloved 454 Casull, right? Does anybody have any ACTUAL EXPERIENCE that would suggest otherwise? Secondly, I intend to equip the evil twin with screw-in carbon steel bearing inserts on the hammer pin, and use a square-bottom firing pin stop to increase the recoil dwell. I'm thinking that stock 9mm or maybe even 45 commander springs will be all that's needed under those conditions, neh? Then I can stop worrying about recoil stop hole egging, although, frankly, if the aluminum frame ultimately can't stand up to that much evil, I'll just replace it more frequently, like once a year heh heh heh heh.
Cheers,
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First post. I'm building two 1911 commanders, both 10mm. The sick one has an aluminum frame with barrel extension just because... Both are evil looking in phosphate/dull black hard-anodizing, but the nice twin also has an elegant damascus slide, and the evil one has a beefy slide from Fusion (in black, it has the lines of a Soviet limosine). Pre-build now, just waiting on the parts. So I have a few things to consider: I'm using a Colt stainless match barrel in the nicer twin (she's all steel) and I'm assuming that with good brass like Starline the lack of cartridge head support inherent in the classic Browning design won't be an issue with hotter commercial ammo and reloads. I mean, I don't much care if cases bulge and can't be reloaded so long as they extract and there are no blowouts. I assume the usual pressure signs would still be there to warn me I'm getting close to a risky situation, but I have no experience at all with 10mm---never fired one. It can't be any more interesting than my beloved 454 Casull, right? Does anybody have any ACTUAL EXPERIENCE that would suggest otherwise? Secondly, I intend to equip the evil twin with screw-in carbon steel bearing inserts on the hammer pin, and use a square-bottom firing pin stop to increase the recoil dwell. I'm thinking that stock 9mm or maybe even 45 commander springs will be all that's needed under those conditions, neh? Then I can stop worrying about recoil stop hole egging, although, frankly, if the aluminum frame ultimately can't stand up to that much evil, I'll just replace it more frequently, like once a year heh heh heh heh.
Cheers,
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