Took it to the range today.
I didn't find out much about accuracy due to the fact that, for me anyways, the front sight entirely filled the rear sight. So at 25 yards my focus was keeping the front sight level with the back and making sure no light peaked around the edges. As a result rounds were all over the place.
After shooting ten rounds I moved into about ten yards and pretty much just put the gun in the middle of the black - I was using a stick on action pistol 'X' rinf which is 4 inches in diameter - at 10 yards I was able to hammer them all in there which doesn't say that much about the pistol's accuracy.
I got bored with that after about 25 rounds so moved over to the plate rack. Did a couple runs at 10 and 15 - not using a timer, but not slow - and it hit okay. At 20 I started wasting bullets.
I think I'm going to have to buy another rear sight and open it up a scoosh. As I mentioned in another post the rear sight was drifted to the left, I drifted it center and as well as I could tell this seemed to be on. The sight seemed to hold nicely in the centered position, but it didn't take much effort to push it past center. As a temp fix I degreased the parts and used blue loctite. If the new sight isn't tighter, I think I'll just use green sleeve locker on it and see if it holds.
I had had field stripped the pistol to generally clean it and remove the magazine disconnector. The barrel showed little wear from the bushing, and the slide rails didn't seem to indicate a lot of use. The bore was filthy, I didn't work that hard cleaning it, but the bore still looks dark in it's first third. I think it was shot little, and I wonder if it had ever been cleaned.
As far as functioning, I cant complain. I was shooting my 115gr JHP loads which use 4.9 Titegroup, very light crimp, 1.130 OAL. They are kind of long and I anticipated problems feeding, none materialized.
I'm left-handed, and this thing has a pretty long slide stop pin, as a result I pushed the slide stop out enough to cause the only malfunctions I had. This occasionally happens to me on 1911 style pistols, I generally get a new plain jane slide stop and flatten the end until it is flush with the frame, saving the nice one in case I ever get rid of the pistol. I'll probably just flatten the one I have on this pistol.
Overall, I'm happy with this little thing.
Last edited by 26 Inf; 09-07-18 at 18:24.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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