I Want To Love The 1911! I Really Do!!!

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I want to love my 1911, but everytime I use it I have problems. I had jamming problems that I found to be my extractor. I changed the extractor, and took it out without a problem. Now a week later I take it out and have feeding problems, and slide stop problems (The Mag Won't Stop The Slide). The Mags are Shooting Star CM, and worked fine last time. The 1911 is a1911 -A1 Springfield W/MuzzleBreak (Used) I am considering getting rid of it. What do you guys think?
 
Maybe it's a minor problem and can be resolved. If you had enough get rid of it.
I never had a problem with my Colts. Never.
 
Take advantage of Springfield's lifetime warrant and send it in for them to fix.
 
maybe the muzzle break is slowing the slide too much. If you replaced the recoil spring lately, put the original back in and try.
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I have the same problem. I have issues with .45 caliber and the 1911 platform is sexy and classic as can be, but I just don't do well with them.

It's been my opinion that the size of the .45 round makes the platforms a bit more picky. The 1911 in particular seems to require some extra work to get everything smooth and carry reliable.
 
The Muzzle Break is on the a 6 1/2" Threaded Barrel. Its not a Barrel Bushing Muzzle Break. Will Springfield warranty it if it has all those aftermarket Parts. Muzzle Break, Extended Slide Stop. I believe the slide stop is after market which might be the problem.
 
In my opinions, either you like a 1911 or you don't. Some folks will tell you replace this and replace that. Personally replacing anything in a new gun to me is BS.

Lifetime warranty is nice if you do not mind losing your gun for a few weeks. More BS.

Every manufacture has their lemons and most 1911 lovers will tell you they never had a problem with theirs but a lot will tell you they have.

1911's have been around a long time and I love to shoot them. I own two. I just would not carry them.

My Glock, XD and M&P does not need oil to function.

These are all my personal opinions.
 
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Did the gun come this way from the factory (muzzle brake), or did the previous owner have it done? Before you sell it or send it in for repair, is there any way you can put it back into a regular M1911 configuration? Do you have or can you borrow a regular barrel and bushing, along with a regular recoil spring, and a slide stop that you know works fine? It just sounds like someone's done a lot of modifying to this gun, that may or may not have been done properly, and it could be the cause of your problems. Possibly by putting it back into a regular 1911 configuration, you might get it to work right.
 
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The very first thing to do...

Check to make sure that your magazines are in good shape, clean, not dented, etc. A very high proportion of 1911 failures are magazine related, and no fault of the gun.
 
By listening to your description it sounds like your Springfield is not stock.
The worst enemy to the Government Model is the gunsmith who believes he knows better than JMB and "improves" the pistol.
The slide not locking back is either a weak magazine spring, out of spec follower, bad slide stop.
Have you tried the pistol with other magazines?
A well made Government Model is reliable as any other pistol.
The problem is "1911" has become a generic term for all Government Model clones, and all are not made equally.
Never had any trouble with my Colts and they run without oil as well.
 
Well I don't know if it helps to know that you have company, but....
I have a Springer 1911 A1 Loaded purchased new, 1000 rounds to date that has been back to the factory once for FTF and FTE issues and is having having failure to return to battery issues with the last round of every mag. I bought new mag springs and should get back to the range this week to see if that fixes it.
But, it is frustrating, especially since I read and hear about how fantastically reliable everyone's 1911 is. I'm eyeballing the XD and even have an offer on my 1911 for the same price I paid.:eek:

I'm kind of in the same boat as you; I really want to like this 1911, and I DO like the fit, feel, heft, pointability. I just wish it were more reliable.
 
I agree with what some of the others are hitting on. It maybe the add-ons that are screwing up the works. I have also heard from people that should know that weak or limp wristing a 1911 may cause problems. Something about you (the shooter) absorbing the recoil energy instead of the weapons cycling system.
 
Your problem is that you’re fooling around with inferior current-day counterfeits. I mean when you buy a Glock you get a Glock. If you buy a SIG, Beretta, H&K, and so on, that’s what you get. But If you buy a 1911 you get something that that just looks like the real thing (well sort of, sometime I wonder), rather then the genuine article. The older guns run. The stuff made now just sputters. :rolleyes:

Of course the folks that buy these guns have all kinds of excuses as to why the modern versions act up. Ya got to buy different magazines, or this or that. And they have to be broken in by firing so many hundred (thousands?) of rounds before they can be expected to keep ticking. Of course the ammunition costs come out of your, not their pockets. :uhoh:

So go find yourself a true love, even though she’s a bit older and has some mileage on her. She’ll reward you with reliable performance, just like those other makes I mentioned. ;)
 
Ditch the extended slide stop and your slide lock problems will likely evaporate. Nine times out of ten, the installation of an extended slide stop will cause slide lock failures.

Have a five inch barrel properly installed and your feeding problems will likely go away too. Far to many kitchen table gunsmiths get perfectly good 1911 pistols and screw things up with a mail order catalog and a misguided abundance of confidence.
 
You know, I went out and bought a nice Dremel last year... :eek: Uh, never mind. Just buy a nice Colt.
 
A few reasons for keeping a 1911:

You live somewhere where magazine capacity is an issue.

You want an all-metal pistol, no matter how heavy, and that's that.

You are shooting an event that requires a 1911, or strongly favors a 1911.

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I've never been able to get one that would refrain from throwing the empty cases back in my face. Very tiresome. I'm down from four flavors to just one. I'll keep the just one in case somebody discovers that Slim Whitman records make Glocks spontaneously kaboom.

I aint gived up my steel .357 wheel guns neither... and I aint gonna.
 
Sounds like either your gun has been fixed 'til it broke, or you just have a lemon.

I'll agree with old fluff and others that the original M1911 and M1911A1 are simply unbeatable for reliabilty. That said, there are new guns that work fine. My series 80 Colt Mk IV and my Kimber Sainless Target II 10mm both run fine day in, day out.
 
Springfield rolled a bunch awhile back with crap extractors & for me their mag's are on & off, but a 1911 w/ a 6-1/2 threaded muzzle-brake'd barrel, extended slide stop, etc. --might not be so much that it's a "1911's" fault.

Figuring the barrel is fit right, I don't know much about brake's, but have read the following more than once.

-Gotta experiment with recoil springs --I think they're called compensators because you have to compensate for them...

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