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Why is every time I think I got this 1911 thing worked out things go south? I have been working really hard with the 1911 to get good with one again.

Tonight I had a failure to feed so bad that it tied the gun up. I couldn't get the slide to go forward or backward. It was about a 1/8 inch from being in battery but it wouldn't do anything. I finally beat it open and the round chambered smoothly and fired just fine.

I guess I might as well realize I'm stuck with Glocks and good smith & wesson revolvers.

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How many do you own? See, if own 5 or so you can lie to everyone about how you have a 1911 that has fired thousands and thousands of rounds flawlessly. The way it works is that through 5 guns you might send thousands of rounds down range intermittently between failures but you could write of the failures and then fantasize that the cumulative rounds could have been fired in one gun. The problem isn't just "the gun" it's that you don't own enough of them and you are being to honest. grin

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That sounds like an ammo issue to me not a gun issue.

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Originally Posted by firstcoueswas80
That sounds like an ammo issue to me not a gun issue.


I thought the same thing. But as soon as I got the slide back the round ejected fine. I then slid the round in chamber and it chambered fine. I then put the round back in the mag and it shot the last four rounds like owl poop. It was fine after that I shot 25ish more times.

I have been putting off ordering a smith 1911SC for a month. I guess I knew I could never carry a 1911 again. Just pizzed me off.

I have never seen a Glock locked up like that.

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Get a Sig ........


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I love the 1911's far more than any other, but no other has given me more chit grief than them, it sucks because I can point and shoot them best, but, the sombitches gotta go off! mad


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Brand of 1911?
Brand of ammo?
Is this the only time?
Factory or reload ammo?
New magazines or old highly used ones?
What do you mean by beat it open?😳
Have you had someone else shoot it, if it's a repetitive issue?

Just some thoughts.

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Originally Posted by DINK


I have never seen a Glock locked up like that.

Have you seen 'em blown up?


Simple = reliable - get a Kahr... laugh


That said, I own a few 1911s and like them. But they're not for people who know zip about handguns.. But my day-to-day carry guns are Kahrs - simply because they work and work well, every time I pull the trigger..

Only reason I carry the Ruger SR9c at times is because it has a 17 round capacity AND I'm somewhere around/near/in Murderapolis.. smile smile


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Originally Posted by gunner500
I love the 1911's far more than any other, but no other has given me more chit grief than them, it sucks because I can point and shoot them best, but, the sombitches gotta go off! mad


Does your Les Baer give you problems? Maybe I'm lucky but I never have problems from my 1911's



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I do own a Kahr that has been 100% reliable for many years.

I have shot this Ruger 1911 2500ish times and the only issue it ever had was magazine release staying depressed a couple times early on.

I carry enough crap I can't carry a rubber mallet too....lol.

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Odd.

Honestly, it sounds like an issue with a feed from magazine (perhaps the magazine is going tit's up) that had JUST the right geometry to bind. How, well, that's an interesting one.


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Very odd. BTW, owned two Khars, NEVER AGAIN. As to my 1911s, I guess it must be me. Own four of them, including an Argentine 1927, pre- Series 70, Series 70 NM and a Series 80 Commander stainless and although the Argentine does not like HPs, all the others have never given me a bit of trouble.


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The mag was less than six month old wilson 47D that was good before the jam and after the jam. The mag was stored empty also.

I got to thinking about mags. I have a glock 22 mag that has been fully loaded since 1998. It ran fine yesterday. It's back to fully loaded. I wonder if it will ever go bad.

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The Kahr I had was dead reliable, from the first round to the last. Gonna give them another look when I go CC gun shopping again, maybe an all steel one this time.


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I've shot 1911 mags loaded SINCE 1944 and they worked without a hitch. The first Khar I had would not re-cock every time and I had to send it back to get fixed. That was a 40. The next one, a 45, stovepiped with ball ammo about every fifth or sixth shot.


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Originally Posted by jwp475
Originally Posted by gunner500
I love the 1911's far more than any other, but no other has given me more chit grief than them, it sucks because I can point and shoot them best, but, the sombitches gotta go off! mad


Does your Les Baer give you problems? Maybe I'm lucky but I never have problems from my 1911's


Chit no, that LB runs like a well oiled sewing machine, so does that little LW Commander 38 Super RJM pointed me too and Mesabi sold me, they've both ran without a hitch with anything I've put in the magazines so far.


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As I mentioned, ammo type could be the issue. As mentioned in the Argintine post above, a lot of the older military guns don't necessarily like feeding modern hollow points.


As for Kahr class moments....have had two....still have one that will be going down the road...not bad, just not my cup of tea.....anyone interested? P45 with box and both mags.....excellent condition, not shot much.

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Guess I've been lucky, I've owned a basic Springfield Arms 1911 I bought new around 1990 that I can't recall ever jamming, failing to fire or failing to extract. I've put more than a couple of thousand rounds through it, mostly gun show reloads when I didn't know any better and 230 gr factory ball. It's also handled several boxes of Federal Hydrashock jacketed HPs with no problems. It gets cleaned and lubed about every 200 rounds.

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Originally Posted by DINK
Originally Posted by firstcoueswas80
That sounds like an ammo issue to me not a gun issue.


I thought the same thing. But as soon as I got the slide back the round ejected fine. I then slid the round in chamber and it chambered fine. I then put the round back in the mag and it shot the last four rounds like owl poop. It was fine after that I shot 25ish more times.

I have been putting off ordering a smith 1911SC for a month. I guess I knew I could never carry a 1911 again. Just pizzed me off.

I have never seen a Glock locked up like that.

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Sounds like you need to stick with your Glocks.


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Originally Posted by DINK
The mag was less than six month old wilson 47D that was good before the jam and after the jam. The mag was stored empty also.


Why don't you run with the mags it came with?


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