Opinions Wanted on Colt Frame

[DrHenley]

Well, it's settled...the Colt will stay like it it!

I Finally got up the courage to use it in an IDPA match today, and it performed flawlessly. I didn't really notice the Series-80 trigger even though it is much rougher than my DW's trigger. Now that I've decided it's a keeper, I may try a trigger job on it.

This is the Series-80 that I spent 3 years tinkering with, and I think I finally got it to the point where it's usable - still not up to snuff with my DW, but usable...

When I first got it, it was a basket case:

- Empties consistently hit me in the forehead

- Jams:
-- FTE jams - where the slide just pushed the empty back in the chamber
-- FTF jams - where the slide didn't pick up a round from the mag
-- "3 point" Stem bind jams
-- Nosedive jams
-- Stovepipe jams
-- And jams there aren't even names for...

- The point of impact was a couple of feet low at 25 yards.

What it took to get from there to here:

Polishing the feed ramp
19 lb main spring (the original 23 pound spring was retarding the slide too much)
Reshaping the ejector (to keep the cases from hitting my forehead)
Wilson Combat "Bulletproof" extractor (no amount of tweaking on the old extractor would make it work right)
New Colt magazines (HUGE difference just with the mag change)
New Colt barrel (now even SWCs will feed reliably)
New Colt bushing (the old collet style was cracked)
New Colt rear sight (the original was was too low causing the point of impact to be way way low)
Flaring the ejection port (to keep the cases from hitting my forehead)
Wilson Combat tactical mag release (so I don't have to shift the gun to release the mag)