bountyhunter

Here is my recommendation: don't buy any new SW revolver unless you can give it a DETAILED bench review before buying. I would NEVER special order (pre pay) a gun because then you are stuck with it. What would be a detailed bench review? What should I look for? I'll go from the most prevalent defects I see on new SW: 1) Barrel cylinder gap. Ideal is .004 - .007, limit is .010". I have seen some .015. 2) Breech face gap /square to frame. Measure gap from rear of cylinder to breech face ALL THE WAY AROUND not just at the top. I believe the spec is .062 - .064", absolute min for me is .060". Install fired brass in all cylinder slots and measure gap to verify you still have at least .004" gap or so. ALSO: hold gun sideways and eyeball gaps above and below cylinder to frame. Check for square. 3) Drag marks on side of hammer. Eyeball if hammer is "centered" in frame. 4) Pull trigger slowly, check for any drag or hesitation in the hammer or is it smooth. 5) Barrel alignment: eyeball top lines on barrel center and see if they align with frame center. Also: see if rear sight has been cranked to one side. If barrel is not aligned, forget it. 6) Cylinder carryup. Install fired brass. Very slowly DA pull while tip of left finger just touching cylinder for slight resistance. Cylinder lock underneath must lock into the notch before hammer falls. Repeat SA doing a slow cock to verify stop locks in before hammer cocks. 7) Cylinder lockup. install fired brass. cock hammer, pull AND HOLD trigger and then gently try to rotate cylinder. There should be no perceptible wobble side to side. Check all six locations. 8) Side plate fit. Check the seam that the side plate fits to the frame. Some are so tight you will see "ridging up" near the top left. 9) Cylinder end shake. Hold gun tightly and see if the cylinder has any front to rear movement (unloaded). That's all I remember, might be something I forgot.

Here is my recommendation: don't buy any new SW revolver unless you can give it a DETAILED bench review before buying. I would NEVER special order (pre pay) a gun because then you are stuck with it.

Almost certainly. There always has to be at least one guy who knows what he's doing and "oversees" the min wage monkeys.

Correct. Exactly what I have seen. I used to think that SW sent all their defective guns out here to California to punish the state for their idiotic gun laws, but now I think it's just a quality problem in general. IMHO, SW did away with QC in favor of letting customers do it for them and send the guns back under their "lifetime warranty". And they aren't the only ones. QC is expensive, time consuming, reduces product output and requires skilled and experienced people. None of those things are allowed in today's business model.

If my old posts were available, you would see I have been ringing that bell for a long time.... not just on 929 but all new SW guns including PC. Barrels not straight, hammers dragging on frame, trigger problems, B/C gaps too wide and my pet peeve: sideplates so tight it takes dynamite to remove them. That's why I stopped buying new SW products some time back.

Recklessly drinking tea will do it.

I have use Chip McCormick ten round .45 mags in my .40 Trojan, they work. Junk mags like Promag will not.

I have duputryn's syndrome on both hands which means both pinkies are curled all the way into the palm. I have to grip using three fingers and thumb and it is possible to shoot that way.

Nope. Need a new slide.

Reminds me of when I was shopping for my Chevy Cavalier. You go on line and it does a "dealer search" and gives you dealer address and phone number which has the exact model car you are searching for........ except they don't. They don't bother to ever update their inventory and even if you call, they are too lazy to walk across the lot and see if there is actually a car there. Customer service? Extinct species.....

Both Springfield and Kimber USED to offer their 1911's in .40, but only tooled up to build once or twice a year. I don't know for sure if they still build them or just collect money and let people wait forever....

Yeah, makes san Francisco rent look cheap......

The standard mag for a .45 1911 is seven rounds. The eight round mags are "increased capacity" and some have dubious reliability. I would recommend a seven shot .357 revo like a smith-wesson 686. For a defense gun, point-and-pull is all I would have.

Be careful with slide lube. I had my 9mm start short stroking and feed jamming when our range temp got down into the 40's before. I typically use a blend of FP-10 and Slide Glide but when it's that cold, grease will drag too much.

You see comps a lot on the Ruger MkII's set up for open. IMHO, it's for looks and the extra weight on the end of the barrel. I put one on my Ruger because all the other guys did..... and quickly learned not to shoot lead ammo as it loads up the comp horribly. But porting is not the same as a compensator and I am about 100% confident that porting a .22 rimfire will do absolutely nothing except lighten your wallet.

Yep, the Packers had the smell of death upon them all day long.

The correct answer is: "What? Dear, this is when you need a nice gay man friend to do these things with you......."

Yeah, the mudslildes will be coming soon to a hill near you.

Thought everybody would want to laugh: out here in sunny, warm California where we just got done with a "summer" that lasted about seven months and broke all heat records... we are now freezing to death. It was 45 degrees AT 6PM here ...... overnight lows will be low 30's and upper 20's. BTW, a "normal" winter day for us (yes I know, winter is still a month away) was a daytime high of low 60's and overnight lows in mid 40's. We don't get any normal weather any more... it's all "ten over" or "ten under"..... or maybe 20 under in this case.

The AFTEC aftermarket extractor is a spring loaded pivoting extractor that increases the range of travel the extractor can move to accomodate the smaller 9mm case diameter. I have not personally tried it on a 1911 or 2011 but it is similar in concept to designs that do work well with conversion barrels like Beretta, Glock, SIG, Browning etc. It should be able to work.

What is commonly called muscle memory, although muscles actually can't remember. From practice, your brain lays down wiring to do the function without conscious direction. When you got into that mode, performance improved.

I thought we already had a thread where I posted pictures about the differences in the breech face cuts between 9mm slide and .40 slide. The bottom line is the case's rim diameter of the 9mm is around .035" smaller than .40 which means there is an air gap of maybe .018" around the rim of the 9mm case to the .40 breech face. IMPORTANT: the 9mm case is tapered which means as it pulls out of battery, it can turn. it will lose extractor tension unless the extractor can pivot (move) far enough to keep it pinned to the breech face and fixed extractors can't move that far. If a fixed extractor is bent far enough to hold tension to the breech face, it has way too much tension when the case is centered. This situation makes extractor function very iffy.

Depends. On guns with a pivoting extractor, you probably can just use the conversion barrel (I have on a SIG226, Glock 35). On guns with a "fixed" extractor like the 1911 and Springfield XD, you will have extraction problems. Guess how I learned that.....

Yep, it's what's left of the standard safety on mine after I chopped and rounded it. I had the exact same problem, never understood why most 1911 safeties are the size of a couch cushion.

I have the same problem (Large hands long fingers) and a 1911 feels like it rattles loose in my hand. I put a 2011 grip adapter on mine to make it the size of a double stack 1911 and it made it fit much better.