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Epilogue: After I got my 1911 back from SA, I cleaned the 💩 out of it. I did find a bunch of sand-looking substance in the 2-cutouts in the slide. (See pic. of slide, substance already cleaned out.) It took about 10 toothpicks to clean this substance out. I’m wondering if it was leftover from...

I agree. I own multiple firearms, from different manufacturers, and I’ve never had problems like this before. (The only problem I’ve ever had with all of my firearms is, a Ruger Security-9 that I bought a couple of years ago. I had 1 failure to feed with it, and it never happened again.) I am...

Update: My 1911 is repaired and SA did the following: *Inspected Pistol *Reamed Chamber *Polished Chamber *Polished Throat *Polished Breech Face *Tuned Extractor *Polished Bottom of Slide *Safety Checked & Tested We shall see. Really looking forward to getting it back. Thanks for all of the input.

Thank you.

Thanks for the info.

Wow!

I have never taken a gun maintenance class but I do clean all of my firearms after I shoot them, no matter how many rounds I put through them.

Very nice collection of Springfield Armory firearms.

Excellent collection!

I guess that will have to be my next purchase next year. 😂 Very nice!

Nice guns! Thanks for the info.

I’m glad that I got the SA 1911. I was actually thinking about buying the Ruger Vaquero in .45 or .357. I do not own any revolvers and it would have been my first one. I also didn’t own any 1911s either.

Thank you for your reply. My first firearm purchase was a Ruger 9mm back in the early 90s. I think it’s a P89? Never had a problem with it. I also have a little plinker, Browning Buckmark in .22. Before I bought the SA 1911 Garrison, my last purchase was a Ruger Security 9, in 9mm, for CC. I...

I wanted to break down the 1911 before I shot it-my first 1911 that I owned. The video, in the manual, on the Springfield Armory website, shows the takedown of a 1911, but not the Garrison. I did manage to find a video online of the takedown of the 1911 Garrison, though.

Here are some pics of the ftf: