Kahr/Auto Ordnance pakerized milspec 1911

[brownie]

I pick it up this afternoon. I wanted another milspec carry with the little nub front sight like my SA milspecs carried back in the day. Got this one in parkerized with the plastic grip panels. A no frills workhorse I can bang around and sweat all over without worrying about it being scratched or finish damaged etc.

If I'm going to a bar b que, I'll take the Ed Brown. For daily carry, the AO, once it's been run hard and found reliable achieves the goal of a no frills gov model that's carried daily.

I sold the Ruger sr1911 lw cmd, the front sight was just too much of a distraction for me in the way I've run a 1911 since 81.

[sdmc530]

LOVE that look!

[pitor]

Nice pistola Brownie. Hope it turns out reliable.

[brownie]

Okay, picked it up, some initial observations at the shop.

1. Covered in oil, including the firing pin channel.
2. Seemed a little gritty on the cycling. Slide to frame fit, a very little play when in battery, very little.

Got it home and field stripped, observations.

1. The series 80 fp block was different but not all that much trouble to depress and remove the firing pin. Soaked in oil, the spring is very tight in the channel. FP is a 38 super pin [ most all come that way today, not unexpected ] I may swap out for the 45 pin.
2. Barrel bushing was TIGHT in the slide, almost needed to go get the bushing wrench. Bushing was as tight on the barrel.
3. Break cleaner douche of parts, fp channel
4. Gun slick applied
5. Back together, the series 80 plunger took some figuring out how to depress it and depress the fp back into the channel at the same time.
6. Running the slide manually letting the gun slick get worked throughout the rails, in just several cycles, I could hear and feel the slide gliding much smoother on the rails.
7. Loaded 3 mags with 230 ball for feed testing. Flawless feeding and ejection on all three.

The throat on the feed ramp is quite wide and opened up to accept HP's, not mirror finished, but a LOT better than I expected from this one. Really happy to be back to the old slab sides with minimal ww2 fixed sights that I carried professionally for decades. Tomorrow I may get to the range, but range report to follow. Based on what I felt on feeding and seeing their extraction, this one will likely run very well.

More to follow, thanks for the remarks guys

[pony up]

"I sold the Ruger sr1911 lw cmd, the front sight was just too much of a distraction for me in the way I've run a 1911 since 81." Quote Brownie.

Brownie, would you be willing to illuminate this front sight preference? Particularly of interest is how you run a 1911 in that regard. I for one, and perhaps others, am trying to develop a more natural point and shoot with my 1911's. Am I on the right track? Your mil-spec looks just like the one I carried from 1958 to 1962. Congrats Thanks Dennis

[brownie]

Originally Posted by pony up

"I sold the Ruger sr1911 lw cmd, the front sight was just too much of a distraction for me in the way I've run a 1911 since 81." Quote Brownie.

Brownie, would you be willing to illuminate this front sight preference? Particularly of interest is how you run a 1911 in that regard. I for one, and perhaps others, am trying to develop a more natural point and shoot with my 1911's. Am I on the right track? Your mil-spec looks just like the one I carried from 1958 to 1962. Congrats Thanks Dennis

I carried milspecs for decades on the street using any number of skills that don't require a set of sights be on the gun. I ignore the sights unless I need more precision that COM on a man.

Thus the higher the profile of the front sight, the more it becomes a distraction, something I'm not used to seeing with a gov 1911. To develop the natural pointing of the 1911 gov model, consider the length of the slide a finger. You're not pointing/aiming the gun, your pointing that finger [ visualize it mentally ] but it's in your peripheral vision, you're eyes are focused on the threat.

I'd say start by mentally thinking metal on meat, pull the trigger, then refine COM with that method. Find your own comfortable range so COM is easy if you point the finger/slide and center it [COM ] on the threat. Try not to look at the gun, the idea is to eventually be able to shoot where you look, with no direct visual input on the gun, only on the threat.

If you think of it like a finger, just point it, you've already got the proprioceptors ingrained with your real finger to point and hit anything you point at.

Don't hesitate to ask further if that sounds like giberish.