What would you do with this 1911A1?

[Eightball]

It's a Springer. It is performing as expected.

If you complain you'll be tagged as a "whiner."

The fix is DO NOT BUY SOUTH AMERICAN GUNS.

You bought crap and you got crap. Don't whine.

Wow. THIS was helpful, and a wonderful addition to the thread.

I see it's going back to SA. Good deal; keep us posted.

 

[CWL]

I also guess barrel link is the culprit.

 

[EHL]

You know, I always scratch my head when I hear somebody bought gun after gun from companys like Kimber and Springfield and say that "they all needed work because NONE would work out of the box" therefor, they are all POS's. They must all be either the most unlucky guys in the world or they are indeed being a couple of princesses fretting about the pea.

Sorry, I can no doubt expect some lemons inevitably escaping their QC department, but for this many non-working, POS guns all to end up with the same person over and over again seems to stretch the imagination with the statistical improbability of such a manifestation of rotten luck. Either that, or sometimes problems are either imagined or even caused by the user themselves.

 

[AK103K]

Yup, I was foolish enough to keep buying them after that Loaded model I got that wouldnt feed hardball out of the box, yea, its its one of those things, I got a lemon, must be a fluke. A couple of WWII's and a Mil Spec with the sand and trigger issues, and a Champion that looked like it might work, but alas, it too started to balk shortly down the road as it was fired and had reliability issues.

Funny thing is, back in the 80''s, when Springfield was still building their guns to GI spec, and didnt have a model and/or frame of the week, they had great guns, and I never had an issue with them, and actually wish I had a couple of them back.

Kimber was a problem too, accurate and pretty, but my Ultra Carry would not go through one mag without a stoppage. Change the mags, replace the springs, send it back, its fixed...NOT. Sure was pretty though.

Even the Colts started to get annoying, with having to replace the plastic parts and having to dovetail the slides for a front sight, and all, or if it was an older gun, having to do the sights, the T&P and all the associated things that went with it. I will say this for Colt, they almost always worked, and the later ones feed pretty much anything out of the box.

Over the years, I've owned around 30+ 1911's, so its not like I'm not familiar with them. I only trusted Colts to carry and carried a Commander daily for 30 some odd years. After dealing with the last few, I gave up and bought a P220, and never looked back. Sold all but three 1911's and replaced them with SIG's. I'm on SIG number 16 now, new and used, and have yet to have to do anything but load ammo in the mags of the 10 new guns, and replace night sights and maybe a spring or two on two older police guns. Other than a couple of wore out reloads, every one of them has been 100% reliable with any factory ammo. No break in necessary on any of them yet either. Even Colt aint that good.