I have an STI Trojan in .40 S&W. It's a competition/range-only gun mainly because it misfeeds my reloads regardless of which magazines I use. I can't trust it for self-defense and besides, that's why I have an XD. I'm honestly wondering if it's the caliber since the 1911 seems to work better in other calibers.
9mm is most tempting just due to cost, but is there something better?
Should I convert my 1911?
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
Anything other than 10 mil, 357 SIG, or 9x25 will require a new slide.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
Call STI and see what they say about the malfunctions. They might have helpful ideas/options for converting it too.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
I wouldn't be able to use it for 9mm with just a barrel & spring swap?HTRN wrote:Anything other than 10 mil, 357 SIG, or 9x25 will require a new slide.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
9mm is a lot smaller than 40. Extractor may or may not grab. Certainly wouldn't be that reliable.SoupOrMan wrote:I wouldn't be able to use it for 9mm with just a barrel & spring swap?HTRN wrote:Anything other than 10 mil, 357 SIG, or 9x25 will require a new slide.
I voted 10mm, though the suggestion of 357 Sig is somewhat interesting.
I don't know what your malfunction/feed issue is, but all the folks I know who shoot .40 out of a 1911 load very long and use 10mm mags.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
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3 And as the ages passed men in their ignorance and arrogance didst forget the word of the Lord and began to profane the 1911. The tribe of the gamesman did place recoil spring guides and extended slide releases upon the 1911 and their metal smiths didst tighten the tolerances and alter parts to their liking, their clearness of mind being clouded by lust.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
This can be translated as the thing barely working to begin with, and any little change can throw it off.PawPaw wrote:Thou shalt not muckest with the design of John.
3 And as the ages passed men in their ignorance and arrogance didst forget the word of the Lord and began to profane the 1911. The tribe of the gamesman did place recoil spring guides and extended slide releases upon the 1911 and their metal smiths didst tighten the tolerances and alter parts to their liking, their clearness of mind being clouded by lust.
But I guess we know who was the 4th vote for .45ACP.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
10mm would be the easiest, but I do have an irrational fondness for the .38 Super.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
Either his or mine.Netpackrat wrote:This can be translated as the thing barely working to begin with, and any little change can throw it off.PawPaw wrote:Thou shalt not muckest with the design of John.3 And as the ages passed men in their ignorance and arrogance didst forget the word of the Lord and began to profane the 1911. The tribe of the gamesman did place recoil spring guides and extended slide releases upon the 1911 and their metal smiths didst tighten the tolerances and alter parts to their liking, their clearness of mind being clouded by lust.
But I guess we know who was the 4th vote for .45ACP.
Like anything else, you find good ones and bad ones, but with the exception of a Gold Cup that wouldn't feed anything reliably, mine have all worked pretty well. Maybe I just got lucky.
But I do know that I wouldn't trade one of my 1911s for a round dozen of anything else on the market today.
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Re: Should I convert my 1911?
I've known guys who keep fixing something until it's hopelessly broken. I've never had a problem with a 1911, assuming that it starts out close to GI specs.Netpackrat wrote:This can be translated as the thing barely working to begin with, and any little change can throw it off.
But I guess we know who was the 4th vote for .45ACP.
I don't know who the 4th vote was, but I'm of the opinion that the .45 ACP is God's own cartridge, along with the .30-06 and the .22 Long Rifle.
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