VaughnT --
I certainly understand your desire to have your pistol spiffed up, but I'm not sure I understand what's wrong with it as it is. To me, "reliability" means feeding and firing rounds, not tightness of parts fit. Having a tight fit between the slide stop and the hole in the barrel link serves no purpose. Not for accuracy, not for reliability. What's important for accuracy is that the lower lugs of the barrel stand up firmly and evenly on the slide stop pin when the slide's in battery. If you can push the barrel hood down while the slide's in battery, accuracy will suffer. The link just serves to pull the barrel down out of engagement with the upper lugs when the pistol cycles.
Does the pistol have reliability problems? What's wrong with the rear sight? If you want a custom gun because you want one, go nuts! Sometimes, though, I think people lose track of how well stock 1911's really work, and are made to feel as if their pistols are inadequate because of all the hype over slicked-up guns.
-MD
I certainly understand your desire to have your pistol spiffed up, but I'm not sure I understand what's wrong with it as it is. To me, "reliability" means feeding and firing rounds, not tightness of parts fit. Having a tight fit between the slide stop and the hole in the barrel link serves no purpose. Not for accuracy, not for reliability. What's important for accuracy is that the lower lugs of the barrel stand up firmly and evenly on the slide stop pin when the slide's in battery. If you can push the barrel hood down while the slide's in battery, accuracy will suffer. The link just serves to pull the barrel down out of engagement with the upper lugs when the pistol cycles.
Does the pistol have reliability problems? What's wrong with the rear sight? If you want a custom gun because you want one, go nuts! Sometimes, though, I think people lose track of how well stock 1911's really work, and are made to feel as if their pistols are inadequate because of all the hype over slicked-up guns.
-MD
