Nate, that poor old gun is so un-tactical, it's a wonder it'll even hit the cardboard at all! You desperately need to add forward serrations, ambi safeties, braze on a couple of rails and spray paint it black. Oh, and carbon fiber snakeskin laser grips... and night sights.
LOL
About three years ago, my Chief brought me an older Auto Ordnance 1911 which was giving him trouble even with Wolf hardball. I corrected its maladies for about $80.00 in parts, test-fired it and returned it with the request to let me know if it gave him problems. No accuracy work was requested or done, although getting the lower lugs seated properly on the crosspin and installing the correct link helped it measurably. A couple of times a year, he'd tell me that he and his son had chewed through 200 rounds without trouble.
A lot of our younger officers had never shot a 1911 so after qualifying, El Jefe' left his 1911 at the range so I could cure them of that deficiency. I posted some small 5" bullseye targets, stood them off at about 15 yards and let them run a mag each through it. It was great to watch them delight in the straightforward trigger & rudimentary sights as they chewed up the targets... it was like flash powder before Aborigines. There were 8 rounds left when one of them said "OK, now YOU shoot it!" I walked back to the 25 yard line, stuck my left hand in my back pocket and emptied the mag into a cluster you could cover with your hand.
When I started teaching Glocks a few years ago, I abandoned Old Slabsides, and the fact is that I hadn't fired one in a year and a half. I'd forgotten how easy they are to shoot well; but all the old muscle memory came back and I shot it OK anyhow. As you may have guessed by now, I'm getting the itch real bad. to make matters worse... Mongo like shiny things. I feel a trade coming on.
