bronko22000

Finally, after a year of pondering, reading reports and forums, I broke down and got the PT1911 last night. Man do they put the anti rust crap on them! I took it home and stripped it down and gave it a thorough cleaning with gunscrubber and then re-oiled it down. The trigger is sweet. Can't wait to try it out this weekend.

Pavomesa

Hope you love yours as much as I do mine. This is the best value gun deal on the market today!

vaughnm

Don't forget to come back and give us an update after you've shot it some!

Pavomesa

I'll give you my update right now, Vaughn............one bigjagged hole per clipful off the bench. No jams. They shoot as good as they look and that was with a box of reloads I had laying around for the last ten years.

bronko22000

OK here is the report. I went out yesterday and today. Shot a total of 400 rounds through the Taurus. Not a single hiccup. No jam, no stovepipes. It ran flawlessly.
Yesterday - At first I was a bit disappointed at the POI. Both factory and my handloads were printing 4" low and 3/4" right at 10 yds. But grouping well. Moved the target out to 25 yds, moved the sight to the left slightly. I adjusted my sight picture (rather than having the front sight dot directly on top of the rear sight dot I leveled the top of the front sight with the top of the rear. Firing all 8 rounds from the mag produced a hole a bit bigger than and inch with 2 flyers taking out the top half of the orange dot I was using for my aiming point.
Today - Pretty much the same as yesterday. The first 3 mags were shot from the rest with the proper sight picture and pretty much obliterated the orange dot. Enough of the shooting at paper. The next 3 boxes of ammo were simply playing. Someone was out shooting their shotgun and left a bunch of empth 12 ga hulls laying around. I tossed them up on the dirt bank and between 20 and 25 yds proceeded to hit them and send them flying or burying them in the bank on a regular basis.
I was impressed. Comfortable, nice trigger, accurate and reliable. Only problem is I spent the next 1/2 hour or so picking up all my brass to get ready for the next session.

bronko22000

Didn't fair out so well today. Still no malfunctions but I had a lot more flyers than before. It was probably me. I had some kind of junk in my eye that just wouldn't come out and couldn't get a clear sight picture. And the sun in my eyes shooting so late in the day. Still, Shooting at 25 yds, I can't argue with 5 mags full (40 rds) in a 5" group counting all the flyers. There was a huge hole about 1 1/2" in the target and no telling how many went through there.

Pavomesa

Sounds like a pretty good testimonial to me, Bronko. Let me give you my address and you can mail me all that nasty once fired brass.

bronko22000

No way Pavomesa. I reload too. What load do you use? My load is 6.2 gr of Herco with a 230 gr FMJ. The POI is exactly the same as the Federal factory load. I was at the local gun shop and got a Fobus holster for the 1911 and picked up 2 boxed of Fed ammo for 12.69 a box. The way I figured it, it cost me about .24 per round handloading. So I got 100 pcs of brass for about $2.

USNRETHunter

Glad to see the good range reports. I picked up my new PT1911 in stainless three weeks ago, but it has been too damn cold here in Iowa to hit the range. Today it's about 5 degrees with 40mph winds. I'm no pansy, but I'm no fool either. I agree Bronko, it was pretty grungy on receipt, mine even had some machining fines in it. But I gave it a thorough cleaning and a new set of grips (crappy plastic ones come standard) and I'm ready to hit the range as soon as the weather cooperates.

Pavomesa

Bronko - I haven't tried Herco but I like it as a pistol powder. What I am using is 6.5 grs of Unique and the 230 gr cast. It shot exactly where the sights said it should straight out of the box. I would rank this as pretty much a "factory duplication load." I've loaded up to 6.6 Unique with this but felt like it was just a wee bit hotter than necessary. In fact, I've just loaded some at 6.4 grs I want to try. I'm sure I'll end up sticking with the 6.4/6.5 load.

However, I'm also considering ordering some 200 gr truncated cone bullets. Some of the .45s I've owned over the years REALLY loved this bullet. I even had one odd 1911 government pistol that this was the only bullet it would even feed 100% of the time no matter what I tried with the round nose. Go figure.