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For an early birthday present my wife surprised me with a new Remington 1911 R1. I got the pistol on Thursday (January 5, 2012), over the past weekend I took the pistol out on 2 different shooting sessions.
Lets just say I am not impressed.
To break in the new pistol, I went to the local wal-mart and bought 100 rounds of Remington/UMC 230 JHP, this is the bulk pack of 100 rounds per box. The other box was Winchester 230 grain round nose. The winchester was also the bulk box
Our of about 100 rounds fired, I had 7 failures. The malfunctions happened with factory supplied magazines.
Saturday - The first 5 failures during the first shooting session:
4 - fails to feeds
1 - the second to the last round locked the slide back, which left the last round sitting there. For some reason the last round was sitting loose on top of the magazine, instead of being in the magazine.
Disassembled and cleaned the pistol Saturday evening
Sunday - 2 failures during the second session:
1 - fail to feed
1 - slide locked back on the second to last round.
On the fail to feeds - the round started to enter the chamber, and it was like something stopped the round from going all the way in. When I pulled the round out, the brass had a slight dent, maybe 1/8 wide, and maybe 3/16 - 1/4 inch from the end of the brass, on the bullet end.
I called a buddy of mine that does gun smith work, he said the chamber might need to be polished and the feed ramp buffed? I hope I got that right.
My concern is that if he does anything to the pistol, it will void the warranty.
Overall, I like the accuracy of the Remington 1911 R1, I like how the pistol handles, the trigger has very little creep and I like how it shoots. The second shooting session was doing a double tap - 1 in the chest then 1 in the head. The pistol came right back on target.
Now if I can just get it to work right.
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Lets just say I am not impressed.
To break in the new pistol, I went to the local wal-mart and bought 100 rounds of Remington/UMC 230 JHP, this is the bulk pack of 100 rounds per box. The other box was Winchester 230 grain round nose. The winchester was also the bulk box
Our of about 100 rounds fired, I had 7 failures. The malfunctions happened with factory supplied magazines.
Saturday - The first 5 failures during the first shooting session:
4 - fails to feeds
1 - the second to the last round locked the slide back, which left the last round sitting there. For some reason the last round was sitting loose on top of the magazine, instead of being in the magazine.
Disassembled and cleaned the pistol Saturday evening
Sunday - 2 failures during the second session:
1 - fail to feed
1 - slide locked back on the second to last round.
On the fail to feeds - the round started to enter the chamber, and it was like something stopped the round from going all the way in. When I pulled the round out, the brass had a slight dent, maybe 1/8 wide, and maybe 3/16 - 1/4 inch from the end of the brass, on the bullet end.
I called a buddy of mine that does gun smith work, he said the chamber might need to be polished and the feed ramp buffed? I hope I got that right.
My concern is that if he does anything to the pistol, it will void the warranty.
Overall, I like the accuracy of the Remington 1911 R1, I like how the pistol handles, the trigger has very little creep and I like how it shoots. The second shooting session was doing a double tap - 1 in the chest then 1 in the head. The pistol came right back on target.
Now if I can just get it to work right.
