Frames and slides on a lot of 1911s are dissimilar metals. A lot of things require a break in period and once the metals reach a certain designed spec they will not wear out further. This applies to much more than pistols. A frame to slide fit should be a channel that is designed to have the slide ride over the frame. If there is any excess material it can be knocked off in the first x amount of rounds. It can not keep wearing because you now are at the designed tolerance of slide and frame. Sometimes it’s small casting flash etc. like thousands of an inch.
Wilson, Nighthawk etc. bring a premium for a reason and I agree that they should be able to just have the shit shot out of them. But every part is machined out of the best metals are perfectly hand fit and finished.
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Put this here since we are talking Dan Wesson. I have a DW A2 5" parkerized in 45 acp. Probably got 300 trouble free rounds through it. On 1-6 I went to the range with 150 Remington Golden Saber 230gr in tow. 100% in feeding, firing, and extraction. This pistol is completely stock.
I used for today's outing some Chip McCormick RPM (railed) stainless mags, Checkmate 7-round blued with CM dimpled follower. I used the 2 8-round DW mags included with the pistol as well as 2 7-round mags that came with my Springfield Loaded that I bought years ago.
The CM RPM and Checkmate mags have parallel feed lips, often call wadcutter feed lips. The DW and Springfield have what look like hybrid feed lips. With the CM and Checkmate mags, there seem to be more of a clunk, clunk when feeding the rounds. The DW and Springfield fed smoother.....still obviously the clunk of metal.....but it was smoother. Just wondering if the hybrid feed lips made for this smoother transition.
Anyone else have observations when using various magazine when shooting the 1911?
Golden Sabers are good feeding bullets. They have a pretty good pedigree with 1911s!
The hybrid lip mags do feed smoother, but I've never had the reliability from them as I have with wadcutter lips. Wadcutter lips are also a lot more durable.
IME, wadcutter lips are the right choice for a gun with a throated barrel.
I have both. I typically don't recognize any difference in the smoothness of feeding or reliability with hybrid mags. That said, I do keep flush fit 7 round hybrid mags on hand as my carry mags because my carry 1911s don't wear magwells. Then again, I also have some CMC shooting stars that I put super 7 kits in and they are reliable as the day is long.
Typically I carry 230gr HST+P.
As far as guns needing a break in period...that's not terribly uncommon for some of the tighter fit guns. I don't believe a duty weapon should require a break in period, but at the same time, there are precious few guns I'd trust right out of the box to work how I'd like them to...that includes Glocks, M&Ps, Sigs. It'll take me a few hundred rounds to trust a gun. During that time I'll also be deciding of the sights agree with me, if I want to change the grips at all, whether or not the gun has the appropriate POA/POI.
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