I have several pages written on the 1911 covering these subjects.
Click on the link below my signature line.

You are welcome to read them and perhaps improve your understanding
of how the pistol operates properly and when it operates improperly.
Regards, Jack F
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Are only the Police entitled to defend themselves with a handgun?
<http://www.gunsmith.fuselier.com> East Texas


Sunday, September 20, 2009, 9:45:00 PM, you wrote:

a> Tim
a> I just joined here and noticed gold cup problem. No I did not read all of the
replys and I am a Gold Cup Owner of 14 years. Few things I do know that will
help improve function as well as
a> accuracy, is get a (1) full cylender barrel bushing, (2) with the slide
forward in a forward locked position press down on the throat (chamber area) of
the barrel. If you get any play and I mean
a> any, it would be suggested that you get a 1 size bigger then your current
barrel link.

a> The reason I know this is because I remember my new 1911 out of the box shoot
a horrorable 7 inch group at 25 yds. I prformed the mentioned above, tightened
the slide to the frame and did a nice
a> trigger job while I was at it and tightene my group down to 3-4 inches.

a> Hope this all helps and if youve done this, cool... be safe.

a> MarSOC Wick



a> --- In M-1911@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Rahto" <tim@...> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a Colt Gold Cup with a bit of a problem. It seems as though it
>> starts to lose its point of impact after about 50 - 75 rounds or so, and
>> gradually starts to shoot more to the left. Groups that start out dead on
>> eventually migrate out to the edge of the 8 ring at 25 feet. A routine field
>> stripping doesn't show anything out of the ordinary. After it is cleaned, it
>> will again shoot dead on for a while and then begin to creep out to the
>> left. The gun was bought new in 2005, and probably has about 1000 rounds
>> though it. It should be a lot more, but I don't enjoy shooting guns that
>> frustrate the hell out of me like this one does.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=121893/grpspId=1705069100/msgId=
>> 20836/stime=1210204845/nc1=4767086/nc2=3848607/nc3=5349281>
>>
>> -Tim
>>
>>
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