Springfield Mil-Spec Full Size 1911 : Round 2

Thanks to a friend of mine, we did some mods to the stock Springfield Mil-Spec 1911. The pistol only had roughly 75 rounds through it, thus far. But I wanted a few things changed. Early last week, parts were ordered and arrived. Saturday was gun mod day :-D.

Parts ordered:

1. Flat trigger by 10-8
2. Stainless steel rebuild kit by Ed Brown
3. Drop-in barrel bushing by Ed Brown
4. Stainless steel ambi thumb safety by Kimber

Before any work was done:

After many hours of filing:

The pistol was completely stripped down and was given a once over. Mods were done to the following parts/area:

1. Tuned sear and hammer. Now it has a solid lock and crisp break on the trigger.
2. Tuned trigger and trigger tunnel and eliminated the sloppy play of the trigger in the frame.
3. Switched to a flat mainspring housing. Along with this, we replaced it with a lighter 19# mainspring. Also removed the Integral Locking System (aka ILS).
4. Polished the stainless steel ambi thumb safety to match the finish of the slide and frame.
5. Flushed the slide lock pin to the frame.
6. Cut one coil from the plunger spring to reduce thumb safety pressure.

Already the pistol feels so much better. The new bushing took a lot of play out of the barrel and frame contact area. This should help with tighter grouping. And the trigger pull is now tuned to a 4# pull. And the flat mainspring housing has improve my grip and aim to quickly be on target.

I can't wait to take this puppy out to the range and see the difference. Will post my range finding.

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Magpul Dynamics - The Art of Dynamic Handgun DVD set

The DVD set arrived yesterday afternoon. And last night, I watched about 1 hour 45 minutes of the first DVD. This is one intense video. Magpul does such a great job of breaking down every motions and mechanics of how one should handle their pistol. Everything from admin reload to tactical reload to pushing out the pistol at a target. Check out the Magpul promo video.

I thought I knew how to grip my pistol, and have been playing around with my grips. But after watching the first DVD, I've learned a new way. Will have to test out this grip at the range.
I can't wait to get into the remaining DVD's! I'll report back.

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Springfield Mil-Spec Full Size 1911

I finally bought my first 1911 pistol. Now I know why it is one of the best pistol ever designed my John Browning. I went with a Springfield Mil-Spec stainless, full size 1911.

It feels great! And took it out to the range to break it in. The grouping was decent for being fresh-out-of-the-box. Before the range, I didn't even field strip it. Just loaded the mags with some Remington UMC ammos and away they went.

After shooting the pistol, I know what I want to mod on it. So we're going to start with these mods:

1. The stock short, curved trigger didn't do the job. So I'm going with a new flat trigger. This will give me an even trigger pull at ever part of the trigger, no matter where my finger sits.
2. The thumb safety will be replace with an ambi safety. What can I say, I'm a lefty.
3. New 19# mainspring.

Future plans:

1. Novak rear sight.
2. Dovetail front sigh.
3. Complete polish of slide and frame to remove the matte areas.
4. Commander hammer. Will have to mod the stock grip safety to accommodate the new hammer, because I don't want a beaver tail safety.

Will post pictures of before and after soon.

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The Crazies

The Crazies opened this weekend, and I went on Saturday to see it.

Don't worry, I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen it.

The movie takes place in a rural area that's pretty isolate. Small town life is such an easy going, nothing to worry, everyone knows everyone else, type of atmosphere that I can see myself living, later in life.

The Sheriff walks around with just a pistol, back up mag, and some hand cuffs. In town, he knows everyone by their first name. If he was in metropolitan city, he would look like he is a private security contractor for a major corporation. And he would only know most of the workers by their first name.

The movie quickly leads into the plot and quickly shit starts to hit the fan, and most of the town is transformed into a living nightmare. The government realizes they must contain the incident, immediately. And the whole town goes under Marshall Law. The army moves in and rounds up all residents and place them in a field hospital or M.A.S.H.

The army goes house-to-house and search for stragglers. Anyone caught running or don't comply are shot on the spot! All I have to say is, thank god we have the Second Amendment! There were a few that were armed, and they were able to escape for their freedom.

The Sheriff goes back to his headquarter and find nothing. All of the department's equipments were looted by the army. But he was able to find a revolver that was hidden in his desk. And the story continues on with him trying to save the day with his 6-shooter.

My take away from this movie: Stock up on guns, ammo, and equipments that could save your and your family's lives! And don't store it all in one spot where if someone else found them, you're going to be shit-out-of-luck! And body armor might be a good investment.

hummmm...time to shop for more stuff.

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