Archive for the ‘Springfield 1911 9mm’ Category
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
46,551 rounds
14 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
Less than 3,500 rounds to go! Barring a catastrophe the SACS/Warren gun should hit the 50,000 round mark within the next couple of weeks.
For the third update in a row, there is a stoppage to report. This one occurred during the Langdon Tactical Pistol Skills class in Culpeper, ...
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Saturday, July 20th, 2013
43,274 rounds
13 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
The gun suffered another stoppage, a failure to feed a CCI Blazer 3509 FMJ. The bullet nose was pressed straight into the bottom of the feed ramp. A simple Tap-Rack solved it. The gun had recently been lubricated but it had been more than 3,500 rounds since ...
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Saturday, June 15th, 2013
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42,339 rounds
12 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
As you can see from the video above, the pistol suffered its 12th stoppage (and the first gun-induced problem in more than 9,000 rounds since the ejector was replaced by Springfield Armory Custom Shop). It failed to go completely into battery after firing. Simply tapping the magazine ...
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
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38,724 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
In addition to the KSTG match reported last week, this past weekend I also shot my first IDPA match in five years.
I even went so far as to clean the gun before the IDPA match... the first time in more than 6,000 rounds. It was just a quick field ...
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Saturday, May 25th, 2013
37,177 rounds
11 stoppages
0 malfunctions
3 parts breakages
The SACS/Warren pistol saw a good number of rounds over the past week between the class with Robert Vogel (pictured left) and regular practice.
I was only able to attend the first day of the Vogel class due to unforeseen circumstances but it was a worthwhile day of ...
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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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