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Thanks for your reply Bullseye. I've known from the beginning that the parts in each piston fitted up slightly different but this was the most extreme difference I'd seen. Everything on the first pistol came out well including the safety which had a good tight fit. I learned from the first pistol an...

Over the past year and a half I've done trigger jobs on several late model Mark II's and Mark III's and have never had any problems. Normally I install a VQ sear, Clark's oversized hammer pin & bushing set, Clark trigger, stone the stock hammer hooks to about .018 and polish a few parts and can get ...

Welcome kc I, like you have done a lot of reading on this forum and not much posting. As to your question, yes you will need a Mark II bushing to go with the Mark II hammer and you can get it from Clarks Custom Guns http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/22pts.htm#ruger part # CLK-515 either in SS or Blue d...

Just another though to reduce felt recoil and frame damage a shok buff on the recoil guide and using a small radius firing pin stop th slow down the rearward travel of the slide. On my full size 1911, I use a 14# spring with a shok buff and the small radius stop and ther is very little muzzle jump ...

Len wrote: Me, I just like the .45 as I grew up during WWII and it just sicks in my memory and besides it makes big bangs. I shoot some factorey but hanload most of my range ammo and .45 empty cases are readily found laying around at the range after you throw out the 9mm's and the .40's which seem ...

Well, I've been reading this forum for several months now and never registered until today and but because of this topic I had to. I bought a SA 1911 loaded in 9mm about 4 weeks ago and am well pleased with it. I've put about 2000 rounds through it and have not had the first problem. The only thing ...