Archive for the ‘Springfield 1911 9mm’ Category
Friday, May 17th, 2013
35,257 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
Thirty five thousand rounds in the can ... who ever would have guessed?
As you can see, I got to practice quite a bit this week. But in addition to the big round count I also spent some serious time dry firing this week: three and a half ...
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
32,893 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
The pistol is back from SACS and has already seen one long day of practice.
The whole trip to the mothership and back took sixteen days. As Springfield customer service always does, they covered overnight shipping in both directions. According to the work order, Springfield recut the slide ...
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
31,818 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
2 parts breakages
In case the photo above didn't clue you in, the SACS/Warren gun suffered another small part breakage. After firing round number 31,704 successfully, the gun failed to fire on the next round. A quick glance at the gun showed a piece of metal stuck between the new ...
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
30,297 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
The gun has passed the 30,000 round mark but suffered one more (minor) stoppage... the first in eleven thousand rounds.
During practice the gun experienced a failure to fire. The hammer dropped but there was almost no mark whatsoever on the primer. The round fired normally on a second ...
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
27,995 rounds
10 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Somewhere, in some pantheon of gods and demons, there is clearly a supernatural being bent on preventing me from doing a decent reload with this 1911.
Thanks to joshs volunteering to be my shooting partner one day, I was able to ascertain the leading problem with my reload technique: ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
25,466 rounds
10 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
Perhaps my sense of humor is just a bit too dry. For those who didn't get the joke from last Friday: The SACS/Warren pistol is running just fine and broke the 25,000 round mark. Contrary to popular belief, Todd Green carrying a 1911 was not the 2012 disaster predicted by ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
... 25,000 rounds, that is!
Details to follow this weekend.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
23,864 rounds
10 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
After an almost two month hiatus, the SACS/Warren gun finally got a trip to the range today. It was a very short practice session (less than 150 rounds and less than ninety minutes) but it gave me a chance to assess the gun's condition. The first 31 ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012
23,512 rounds
10 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
The past three weeks have been much more about carrying than shooting.
We spent an entire week at a cabin in Western Maryland, devoting most of our days to either hiking or lying on the couch. The 1911 in its 5 Shot S.M.E. holster worked great under both ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
22,046 rounds
10 stoppages
0 malfunctions
1 parts breakages
As hoped, last week allowed for three separate practice sessions and more than 1,800 rounds through the SACS/Warren gun.
Happily, there is nothing to report in terms of function. The gun went bang over and over. It's been more than 2,000 rounds since the gun has been cleaned, ...
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