1911 Specialist Break-in question? 10mm

[Rmiked]

What does that evidence look like? I only have 100 rounds thru it but have cleaned and lubed 3 times; 0 rounds,50 rounds and now 100. There are no marks on the barrel lugs or interfacing frame slots. I don’t see anything unusual on lower lugs (at link) where the barrel strikes the barrel bed or the lower lug strikes the vertical impact surface. I assume eventually there should be some wear pattern. I watched a Bill Wilson video with his personal 1911 and he was showing wear pattern on lugs. But he had 60,000 rounds thru his😄

[fixer]

FYI my DW did this.

Never bothered me because it cycled fine during live fire.

[JTMcC]

No DW specific input, but I had (still have) a new out of the box 3 1/2" Colt product that malfunctioned like clockwork (it was alarming for a bit considering the short Colt 1911 reputation), failed to go "completely" into battery & many, many stovepipes (well lubed all the time) till I had close to 200 hardball rounds thru it and has been rock solid reliable every since with various bullet profiles (I do the normal 3 1/2" Colt spring changes).

[gunner1976]

My 9mm specialist did the same thing for the first couple hundred rounds and the Wilson Combat mags with the heavier springs made it worse, it'll loosen up eventually.