OMG - First Cleaning of 1911

[ronaldrwl]

It took me 30 minutes to reassembly it. I must have been doing it wrong, that was way to hard. At the next club shoot, somebody has got to show me the right way. There must be tricks the manual didn't include which basically gives the DCR instructions:

Step 1: Dissemble
Step 2: Clean
Step 3: Reassemble

[jake]

I hate those manuals that include instructions for three or four different variants of the same firearm in the "if you have X, do Y, if you have A, do B" style. Come on, you're selling me this thing for $800, print a separate manual for each model and don't be so cheap.

[theGinsue]

Oh man. I am so with you guys on this one.

One would think that even if they put aside the fact that you're spending in the hundreds for the items, they'd at least consider that it's a firearm and proper disassembly/clean/reassembly could be a safety issue; ya think?!

[Irving]

When I borrowed my grandpa's Colt 1911 to check it out, I had to go onto Youtube to learn how to field strip it. I've done the same thing for my M&P, just haven't actually completely stripped that gun yet.

With my CZ, I've had it completely disassembled, except for the trigger group, and did that just from Googling how to take it apart. If I left it up to the manual to tell me what to do, my gun would never have been cleaned and stored in a safe with an action lock still on it.

[Graves]

Soon enough you'll become a real 1911 owner and detail strip it




It's really not as bad as it looks.

[Hannu]

Soon enough you'll become a real 1911 owner and detail strip it




It's really not as bad as it looks.

Completely agree. It takes 2,5-3 minutes to assemble that, if it is built & fitted properly.

It is matter of technique, not force However, different guns need different things - bb/reverse plug, full lenght/short guide rod...

[bjl913]

Just take your time and avoid slipping when you put the doohicky back through the thingamabob and its supposed to snap back with the thingamajig tube or you'll scratch the racky-behind thingy real obviously.

It's called the dummy scratch.

PS: I wrote the manual.

Foxtrot is right.... get /w a long time 1911 shooter and he will show you! not even kidding!!!

[bjl913]

Soon enough you'll become a real 1911 owner and detail strip it




It's really not as bad as it looks.

Not even kidding anybody, if I cant do this to a gun, its not worth carrying! I try and learn on friends guns that are dirty like (insert board member name you hate here's) girlfriend...

I tell them to give it to me for 3 days. The always cry as to how clean it is! I cry as to how confused I was, but they dont know that! haha

[Irving]

I want to detail strip my M&P like that, and just let everything soak in a bucket for a few hours.

[Daniel_187]

My first 1911 was tighter then a snare drum and was a PITA to put back together