Taurus PT1911 Torture Test Part 1

By Caleb

Here’s the first installment in the PT1911 torture test. If you want to sit through 22 minutes of me shooting a gun, feel free to watch the video, although it’s pretty stale. Some quick notes from the testing below the jump.

This test was a basic function test of the PT1911; I wanted to establish two baseline measurements. Accuracy, and out of the box reliability. Essentially, will it run and will it shoot groups. So to the first question, I took three different types of ammo, 100 rounds of Tula steel cased 115 grain 9mm, 100 rounds of Federal American Eagle 124 grain FMJ, and 50 rounds of Hornady 115 grain Critical Defense. I had four magazines, the two factory Taurus 9 round magazines and two 9 round Metalform mags that I literally scrounged out of the house. I think they were in shooter’s bags from Bianchi Cup.

Reliability: the gun ran fine. All four magazines, all 250 rounds went through the gun without a single issue. As has been discussed all over the place in the past, 9mm 1911s often struggle with reliability issues, but at least in the initial testing there were no problems with …Read the Rest

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