It seems like the last few years, any of the newer guns I have bought I have been disappointed with, having to send several back to the factory.
Here is todays example. now this is not a new gun, but a newer used gun and I have had this one for awhile, but don't really shoot it that much, mainly because this issue with it really just bothers me, even though it is a very accurate shooter.
The gun is question is a early 2010s PARA USA Expert model 1911 in 45 ACP. I did buy this gun used, and it had a ugly set of hogue finger groove grips on it that I swapped out for a set of checkered double diamond walnut grips. I also did a series 80 delete on it, and swapped out the plastic trigger and main spring housing with aluminum ones. Overall the pistol is s pretty decent shooter grade 1911 and pretty danged accurate.
First Day Home
Group fired at I believe 25 yards. I had a set of extra Ruger rubber grips on it for a bit.
Anyway, the issue with this gun is that the beavertail grip safety is very poorly fit to the gun, and it bothers the crap out of me. I'm not sure how well this will show up in photos, but the bottom of the radius probably has 1/16 of a inch or better protruding past the edge of the frame.
Now sure, I could refit this safety or a new one, but that would require filing and blending to do it right, in which case I will have to have the gun refinished, and then I'm investing more money into something that shouldn't have been a issue in the first place in my opinion. And of course, in this example PARA doesn't exist anymore so I can't just sent the gun back to have the issue corrected.
Anyway, these is my millennial rant for the day. Maybe I'm just too picky.
A couple days ago I had a discussion on the repeater about quonset huts which I think are great buildings. My phone was on as it always is and now I'm seeing advertising on various websites for them. I've had that kind of thing happen before where something I've discussed in a phone call suddenly starts popping up.
I've never given a tinker's damn about sports but recently I find myself really getting into it. I'm watching my hometown team, Gonzaga University playing girls teams playing basketball and enjoying the heck out of it! Maybe Alzheimer's setting in?
Anyway, the Zags are currently winning, 43-52. Go Zags!
I'm seeing a few celebrities come out of the closet as conservatives. I just saw Justine Bateman on the Jessie Waters show talking about Trump killing the cancel culture and wokeness. (She was my heart throb as Mallory on family ties)
Anyway, I hope this continues where people, not just celebrities, are no longer afraid to speak their minds.
I uh.. suckered..uh... lured him (yeah, that's the ticket) in from artful bullet. I hope you'll find this a comfortable place. Like I said in our pm, not a lot of AR-15 content but it's a lot of comradery with well behaved folks. Unlike artful, we welcome political discussion here as long as it doesn't get out of control.
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