Last summer at a family get together slash shoot out. I got bit by the 1911 for carry bug. After months of research and trips to gun stores and sorting through the BS on the internet I came to the conclusion that the Dan Wesson CCO was the perfect pistol. I had made a list of what I wanted in a gun and this one was a better match. I had it narrowed down to a Kimber Compact CDP 4in barrel, Springfield Ultra Compact 3.5in barrel, and the CCO with 4.25in barrel. All with officer frames. But the finish on the DW won out. So I saved up and mailed my money to Severns Custom back in Feb and picked it up last night. Dave and Deb are great people highly recommend them!
Yesterday morning I get home and strip in down to parts, clean and inspect every piece. I am highly impressed with the quality and fit of the internals. The trigger has no play up or down and very minimal side to side. The Grip safety fits perfectly in the frame and well blended into the tangs. Ejector and extractor both sit flush to the slide which sits flush to the fame. The MSH is flush all the way around and the round butt feels good with out sacrifice to grip and doesn't jab your palm. I can't feel any movement in the barrel. The bushing is still tight and still needs the wrench to move all the way over to remove the plug. The hole to remove the slide stop is also perfectly trimmed to be the same size as the slide stop. Wish it could have been a bit bigger to leave room for error but I guess its just not going to fall off either. The thumb safety has a very positive click on and off. Easy to click off but takes both thumbs to click back to safe. After 100 rounds this did loosen up a bit not so much force is needed to reapply safe.The date the shell casing collected 6/1/2011
Waited for it to cool down to 100 degrees then hit the range. Applied some supplied oil to the rails and the barrel. I had the two Checkmate mags as well as 2 Wilson mags. First two mags were Checkmates.
No problems, except on my part. The trigger is smooth and crisp. The next 2 mags were the Wilson and each one on the 6th round looked like it got caught on something because it did not fully cycle and the new shell was almost in the chamber. I dropped the mag and the slide finished cycling the round in the chamber. Only happened the one time with each mag then didn't happen again. So after 100 rounds of WWB 230gr no problems with feeding from the gun or supplied mags. The gun does have a little more pop than I'm used to/was expecting. But then again I have been shooting reloads through a full size steel frame gun for the past year.
It was even hitting steel plates at approx 30 yards. Over all very pleased with this purchase. I only have two complaints the grips look nice but aren't very grippy thats an easy fix though. The other is the bump on the grip safety, left my hand a little sore in that one spot. But this gun will be a perfect carry gun once I put a few more hundred rounds down range. Highly recommend the CCO, and now dirty gun pictures...
