.......that runs like a champ!
Here is my Auto Ordnance 1911 that I bought five or six years ago. I've done a few things to it just to get it to conform to my own preferences, but the basic pistol is just the way it came from the factory.



I did replace the original small WWII-type sights with MGW 3-dot sights in consideration of my old eyes, swapped in a G.I. surplus stamped and welded short trigger, and I replaced the trigger and sear leaf spring with one from Cylinder and Slide to bring the trigger pull down to about 4-1/2 to 5 pounds. The other changes were mainly cosmetic - Pearce rubber grips, and I swapped the recoil spring plug with one from Cylinder and Slide that is like the pre-WWII ones that have little divots punched into the front sides that screw on to the recoil spring (to keep you from launching it into orbit if your thumb slips while stripping or reassembling it). But everything else is just the way it left the factory, including the Series-80 firing pin safety.
Yesterday I took my early Colt 1991-A1 and the Auto Ordnance to the range. You would expect from the purchase price that the Colt would shoot rings around the Auto Ordnance, but that's not what happened. The Auto Ordnance will feed my preferred Remington 185 grain HTP JHP's all day long from the Checkmate 7-round mags with the flat metal and dimpled followers, and Wadcutter feed lips. All the Colt wants to run is 230 grain ball from Hardball mags.
So, does anyone else have what the snobs would refer to a "junk gun", but that runs like a clock?
Here is my Auto Ordnance 1911 that I bought five or six years ago. I've done a few things to it just to get it to conform to my own preferences, but the basic pistol is just the way it came from the factory.



I did replace the original small WWII-type sights with MGW 3-dot sights in consideration of my old eyes, swapped in a G.I. surplus stamped and welded short trigger, and I replaced the trigger and sear leaf spring with one from Cylinder and Slide to bring the trigger pull down to about 4-1/2 to 5 pounds. The other changes were mainly cosmetic - Pearce rubber grips, and I swapped the recoil spring plug with one from Cylinder and Slide that is like the pre-WWII ones that have little divots punched into the front sides that screw on to the recoil spring (to keep you from launching it into orbit if your thumb slips while stripping or reassembling it). But everything else is just the way it left the factory, including the Series-80 firing pin safety.
Yesterday I took my early Colt 1991-A1 and the Auto Ordnance to the range. You would expect from the purchase price that the Colt would shoot rings around the Auto Ordnance, but that's not what happened. The Auto Ordnance will feed my preferred Remington 185 grain HTP JHP's all day long from the Checkmate 7-round mags with the flat metal and dimpled followers, and Wadcutter feed lips. All the Colt wants to run is 230 grain ball from Hardball mags.
So, does anyone else have what the snobs would refer to a "junk gun", but that runs like a clock?
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