To summarize briefly, this pistol still:
1. Produced Ransom Rest 3-shot groups of just more than an inch at 25 meters with most factory ammo or handloads, including a wide variety of JHP and JSP bullet types.
2. Exhibited minimal finish wear. Even after just more than one million holster presentations, it showed a bit of brightness only on the square edges of the slide and a couple of points near the grasping grooves.
3. Hadn’t rusted to any significant degree, though it had repeatedly been exposed to all kind of salt- and fresh-water moisture.
4. Continued to demonstrate virtually flawless mechanical reliability, despite being seriously abused and digesting a full 250,000 rounds. I didn’t even have to replace the original extractor until just over the 250,000-round mark. And it still used the original recoil spring and guide without a problem.
5. Hadn’t suffered any kind of catastrophic failure of the slide or frame. Though a small piece of polycarbonate at the edge of the magazine well broke off during a particularly vigorous speed-load some years back, the gun’s function remained flawless.
6. Outlasted no less than a dozen magazines, even though I make it a point to disassemble and clean them every two or three times they’re used.
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