I can't agree with your second suggestion. Putting a longer link in a 1911
without refitting the barrel, can, if the link ends up too long, cause any or
all of the following:
1: Link failure
2: Slide stop failure
3: Lower barrel locking lug failure
4: Impaction of the upper lugs and
5: Subsequent peening of the upper barrel locking lugs and/or their matching
slots in the slide.

Manufacturing tolerances dictate that most all factory assembled 1911s have
completely wrong lower lug geometry, and trying to crutch that by fiddling with
the link is only going to compromise the reliability and longevity of the
weapon.

-TRB

----- Original Message -----
From: andreww
To: M-1911@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:45 PM
Subject: [M-1911] Re: Problems with a Colt Gold Cup


Tim
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 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 any, it
would be suggested that you get a 1 size bigger then your current barrel link.

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 trigger job while I was at it and tightene
my group down to 3-4 inches.

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

MarSOC Wick

--- 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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