re: 1911's

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Bought a new LB Premier ll hard chrome with the 1.5 inch guarantee, years ago.

They come in a plain card board box, or did back then.
Was swimming in a plastic bag of oil.

Wiped it off and tried to rack it back.
Would not budge !!!! Tried a few more times and started to think it was locked up ???
Finally racked. To say it was tight is a major understatement.

Great shooter though.

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With 1911s (any pistol really), reliability and accuracy are generally tradeoffs, because a big part of accuracy (along with quality parts) is fitment/tight tolerances.

Getting accuracy AND reliability requires good parts and excellent fitment so the tight tolerances are perfect tight tolerances. That's what you pay all the $$$ is for.

My 1.5" Les Baer has about 20k through it without a single malfunction, yet it's very difficult to break the action by hand. That's not a good thing for a combat/defense gun since you need to be able to manipulate the weapon system, but it's pretty remarkable if you think about it.

I figured a few thousand rounds would break it in, but nope. One thing you can do, and what I'll do when I have time, is run it hard with gritty toothpaste or other material on the rails. Keep doing that until it gets to the point where you can operate it by hand, then stop.