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Post by 5ontarget on Mar 8, 2008 12:40:39 GMT -5
Found this VERY lightly used for my birthday recently. (image borrowed from gunsamerica. Not my actual gun)  Springfield Loaded model px9151l I took it to the range recently...we need a little more time to get acquainted with each other. I only shot about 50rds. (The price of .45 seems to be going up, like everything else.) I was shooting pretty accurately, but not very precisely. Perhaps a little sight adjustment is in order. The trigger isn't bad, but I know it can be better. I can see where the trigger is rubbing a little. All in all, I'm pleased. Happy Birthday to me!! |
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Post by TMan on Mar 8, 2008 20:52:49 GMT -5
Good going 5OT. I rather like Springfield's myself, although I can't justify the price of their FBI models. Becky buys them 6 at a time and sells them as soon as she gets them. (She also got a couple of H&K MK23's, and when I went there yesterday to pick up Jenny, a guy was there buying one. She told me I could have the other one if I wanted it, but the guy said he would shoot the one he bought first, then come back and get the other one. I think they are around $2000.)
The price of 45 ammo is the reason my recent purchases have been 9mm and 22LR. I highly doubt if I'll be buying anymore pistols chambered in 45ACP.
I'm wondering why you weren't too pleased with the accuracy. I've gotten so that I really don't care about how the sights are set, as long as I'm on the paper. What I look for is a tight group somewhere on the paper. How did it group?
DA, knows a heck of a lot more about 1911's than I'll ever dream of knowing so I'll let him give you trigger advice, but I will say that these things are really easy to work on. (Not quite as easy as a Glock, but you can get great results that you can't get on a Glock. My two Glock's are good, but nothing like my 1911's.
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Post by 5ontarget on Mar 8, 2008 23:10:58 GMT -5
The accuracy was pretty good, I was near the 10ring. I was around the bullseye Left, right, high, low, a some in it. Precision was what was lacking, and I'm pretty sure I know what to blame... ME. Usually, if I'm off, I'm consistently hitting one one side of the target. I'm certainly not going to blame the gun, or sights. Not yet at least  . I need to spend some more time shooting it, and even more time just practicing my sight alignment/picture. I haven't shot centerfire pistols in a long time. If I don't get used to it, then I'll consider changing the sights/parts out. I let a friend shoot it this afternoon (he's a very good shot), and he tore the middle out of the target. Even more confirmation that it is once again, my problem, not the gun. One advantage of shooting .45, I can shoot a magazine of .22, then a mag of .45 at the same target. (it doesn't work so well the other way around) |
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Mar 9, 2008 1:47:48 GMT -5
Good Going 5on; Is this your first 1911, or do you have others ?
Don't look like you'll have much to do with this one to make it any better than it already is. Except for the Wilsons, I always detail disassemble the 1911s to smooth up the metal to metal contacts before taking them to the range for the first time. I've done a few Springfields for some I know, as well as Kimbers, Llamas, and Colts. I usually just smooth up the contact areas for better fit without doing any spring changes, stoning, or polishing, in order to retain their warranty. For my own; I've gutted a few before I ever shot 'em for the first time.
I hardly go to the range without carrying at least one of my 1911s.
Everytime I take one of my 1911s to the range it's like a test drive, to find anything which I feel could make it better before it's next trip.
I'm seriously considering going back to the standard thumb safety on a few of my pistols, or drilling a more positive detent for the plunger spring to lock into. On one of my project Colts,the wide paddle extended thumb safety might have bumped up to engage the sear, or the high ride grip safety failed to disengage while I was shooting. Either way, I opened up the lever a little more on the grip safety, when I stripped the frame, and took a little off the thumb safety's lug. My trigger became locked two times out of two hundred rounds, which is two many for such a pistol.
It was still one of the most accurate, fastest, and second loudest pistol on the range when I was shooting.
That's what makes some 1911s interesting and more personal than other pistols I own. I'm glad to see you acquire such a nice pistol with that Springfield; I know you will be happy with it and hope you have a lot of fun shooting it.
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. I need to spend some more time shooting it, and even more time just practicing my sight alignment/picture. I haven't shot centerfire pistols in a long time. If I don't get used to it, then I'll consider changing the sights/parts out. I let a friend shoot it this afternoon (he's a very good shot), and he tore the middle out of the target. Even more confirmation that it is once again, my problem, not the gun. 