Its Me wrote:
On Monday, December 19, 2016 at 4:05:11 PM UTC-5, Poco Loco wrote:
Took my buddy, Carmen, to the range today to try out the new Ruger
SR1911. Carmen started the
shooting and withing three rounds had a stovepipe. He cleared it,
chambered another round and had
another stovepipe within a couple rounds. He had three in the first
eight rounds fired. He continued
shooting, going through 25 rounds or so, still having stovepipes and the
slide not remaining in the
open position when the last round was fired. We tried different
magazines and different ammo (we'd
been using the aluminum cased ammo), but nothing seemed to work.

I asked to shoot it, and went through three or four magazines. The gun
functioned perfectly! In
fact, I think I was more accurate with it than with the Kimber. Seems
like the sight dots are easier
to see on the Ruger. Anyway, I remembered my brother, retired cop,
telling me once about his
daughter trying to shoot a new gun and having problems. He blamed 'limp
wristing' as he had no
problem shooting the gun. This was a S&W SD9 VE.

I mentioned this to Carmen, he extended his arm a lot more and firmed up
his wrist. Lo and behold -
no problem, except that a couple times the slide still wouldn't lock
back after the last round. We
then went to loading the magazines with only two rounds just to test the
slide lock. It worked for
me 100% of the time, for Carmen about 50% of the time.

So, we deduced that Carmen needs to firm up his wrist. He will bring a
wrist brace next week. We'll
see what happens.

But, here's the question. When he shoots the Kimber, he has no problem
whatsoever. Could some of
this be due to the Ruger being new and needing 'breaking in'?

Could be. Was it disassembled and cleaned? Even a brand-new pistol can
have manufacturing "stuff" inside that can cause problem. And I have
seen some new stuff that just didn't want to run, and had to be sent back
for factory tuning to clear them up.

I picked up a new AeroPrecision M4E1 a few weeks ago. First thing I did
was to field strip and clean it, then took it to the range to run a
couple of clips through it. Ran like a top.


My Ithaca 20 feather lite had a small piece of metal from the lathe that I
had to remove on first pheasant trip. Still have no idea where it was
hiding. Had cleaned and shot it at the range before.