1911 feeding issues

[garand4life]

I'm calling Taurus Monday to ask about this... There is some pitting in the top of the slide rails. Everything moves smoothly but I am curious whether this should be happening at all.

[PegLeg45]

Looks more like peening than pitting....if you are talking about those divots in the top edge (right above the slide-stop plunger tube). I can't say 100%, but I have seen marks like that before, and they were from dropping the frame onto a hard surface while disassembled (no, it wasn't me  ). Those really should not have come from shooting, IMHO. It is hard to say where they may have come from, though. If the gun is new, it could have happened during manufacturing. If the gun is used, it could have come from something as simple as a butter-fingered person dropping it during cleaning or a home gunsmith trying to work on the ejector with a hammer and missing (?).

[tombogan03884]

It could have come from handling during manufacture as well, getting banged around in a tote full of receivers or some such.
Maybe someone got careless with the stoning or deburring process.
They are not shaped right to have been caused by shooting.

[garand4life]

This was purchased used. They don't seem to be affecting the gun but again, I wasn't sure if they would be something that I should worry about. It doesn't seem that they are going to be any kind of problem.

[CJS3]

The preening is just the price of having an aluminium frame (the AL in PT1911AL). I can't say why some 1911s are particular about their diet, while others aren't, but I can almost garantee that the prior owner sold it because of that. Polish up the feed ramp and the lower lip of the chamber, and put a few hundred rounds through it for a proper break in period. If it still gives you FTFs after that, use the Taurus lifetime warranty.

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[tombogan03884]

Or trade it for a Rock Island Armory 

[billt]

I can not think of ever seeing a 1911 that was too loose or sloppy to run, but I have seen several highly smithed guns that lost their ability to be reliable.

This is the same reason the AK-47 is considered to be more reliable than the AR-15 / M-16 platform. When tolerances are tightened, accuracy improves. Unfortunately that is usually offset with decreased reliability, especially when dirt is infused into the equation.  Bill T.

[PegLeg45]

This is the same reason the AK-47 is considered to be more reliable than the AR-15 / M-16 platform. When tolerances are tightened, accuracy improves. Unfortunately that is usually offset with decreased reliability, especially when dirt is infused into the equation.  Bill T.

+1

That can be applied to many things mechanical.