One Piece Or Two Peice Guide Rod Ambi Saftey Or Single

[johnny1gun]

Trying to finish up my RO. What a learning experience. I have heard not to buy ambi safeties because they work themselves out. Ive also heard just buy a one piece guide rods. That two piece will come loose. Would love to here what the Enos universe thinks of these things since i have no experience with either. This gun is for competition only. Thanks for the help and Merry Christmas!

[snake32]

all of my 1911/2011's have ambi safety's with no issue. i only have 1 with a 2 piece guide rod and it is lock tited together once again with no issues.

[blue edge]

Ambi safty & One peice guide rods

[a matt]

all my 1911/2011 have ambi and one piece guide guide rods and work great. but im a lefty/

[gunfixer]

My 1911 and 2011's have 1 piece (Tool-Free on the Double-Stack)

and Ambi's.. I like 'em allot and have never had a problem w/ these features..

[steel1212]

I like single sided safeties, less prone to breakages. As for the guide rod you want a one piece design.

[LPatterson]

My competition 1911 style guns have 2 piece guide rods for ease of disassembly in the field. Most of them have ambi safeties so I can keep the safety on during transfer to WHO. I have had a safety break but I also had what I though was a 1 piece tungsten guide rod come apart. Most 1 piece GR's are going to take some sort of takedown tool but the choice is really yours.

[limited 10]

I like Dawson's "tool-less" FLGR...

[warpspeed]

Ambi Safeties over single side

One piece FLGR over two piece

9mm over 45 ACP

223 over 308

#8 over #7.5

And the Chicken came first.

[Joe139]

I use a ambi safety (Infinity wide) and a Dawson one piece guide rod in my 2011,Just my opinion.

Edited December 26, 2011 by Joe139

[twodownzero]

Ambi for weak hand shooting, 1 piece guide rod.

[pskys2]

For a carry gun there's a valid reason to go with a standard safety, not extended/ambi/or paddle type.

For a Match Gun FWIW I like an Ed Brown Ambi and, I know I'm departing the norm, a Standard Length Recoil Spring Guide.

For me it's a matter of how the front sight tracks. I tried all the different variations of Full Length Guide Rods for a decade and came back to the Original as the extra weight up front did little for me to help in recoil and invariably led to a slight dipping of the muzzle. I couldn't get the dip out regardless of weight of recoil spring, as usually the lighter the recoil spring the less the muzzle will dip.

So I settled on less weight up front and then played with different weights of Recoil Springs until I found the right combo, Std Guide/14-15# Spring in a .45 1911.

I use the same set up for a .40 2011 LImited Gun also.

[johnny1gun]

For a carry gun there's a valid reason to go with a standard safety, not extended/ambi/or paddle type.

For a Match Gun FWIW I like an Ed Brown Ambi and, I know I'm departing the norm, a Standard Length Recoil Spring Guide.

For me it's a matter of how the front sight tracks. I tried all the different variations of Full Length Guide Rods for a decade and came back to the Original as the extra weight up front did little for me to help in recoil and invariably led to a slight dipping of the muzzle. I couldn't get the dip out regardless of weight of recoil spring, as usually the lighter the recoil spring the less the muzzle will dip.

So I settled on less weight up front and then played with different weights of Recoil Springs until I found the right combo, Std Guide/14-15# Spring in a .45 1911.

I use the same set up for a .40 2011 LImited Gun also.