When Wilson used to make the Thunder Ranch Special before Bare started building them a friend bought one. He asked me to shoot it... Now I grew up on 6-12 oz match triggers on small bore rifles... Most of my 1911s have 3.2-4.5# triggers that break like a thin glass rod. This trigger was uncontrollable. You just touched it and it went off...totally inappropriate for a 1911 let alone one that is touted as being the ultimate defensive pistol. My first round went off way before I wanted it to... Within 100 rounds the gun was doubling or tripling.
Gun was sent back to Wilson with a request for a 3.5-4.0 pound pull... Came back with about a 3# pull that quickly started doubling again...
Bob
If you weren't a reputable & reliable source, that would be hard to believe.......what time frame was that from as that is just unbelievable from any manufacturer, much less Wilson; I'd love to hear their response today. That gun obviously had sear & hammer engagement issues.MM
Yup...really happened...even worse the owner of the gun, who was a member of the combat shooting group I ran, was named...Wilson...Frank Wilson.
Time wise it was a while ago... Maybe early 2000s. Wilson didn't make the 1911s for TR very long as I recall so if you can find out when that was that would be the time period. As I recall it was between $2300-2500.00. You would think that when someone sent back a gun that the trigger pull was too light and was going burst fire they would have put a trigger scale on the remake before it was returned...
Bob
