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Article: 2008 Seal Of Approval.(PISTOL SMITHING: THE INSIDE SCOOP ON PISTOLSMITHING TECHNIQUES)
- Article from:
- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Just about the entire time I've been whacking on guns I've been telling customers, "The firearms industry is the only industry I know that can sell you a product that doesn't work." When Colt was the only major company producing the 1911, the first stop for the customer, after the shooting range, was the local gunsmith where the pistol was made to feed and extract properly. We altered and opened the barrel throat, polished the heavy tool marks out of the frame ramp, tuned the extractor, changed out the ejector, crimped the lips on the magazine for early release and performed a jillion other little things designed to make the blooming thing do what it was supposed to do. ...