Taurus PT1911 Torture Test Part 2

By Caleb

The Taurus PT1911 went over the 500 round milestone with no mechanical issues this week. As of today, it’s fired 606 rounds of mixed 9mm ammo, with one failure to extract coming on round 606 exactly. With that one exception, the gun has run like an absolute champ, and even that failure to extract came on the last round of the magazine, which meant it didn’t really tie the gun up in a meaningful way.

At this point, I’m in kind of a weird place with this gun. It has been relatively reliable, even though the round count is still pretty low at only 606. It keeps feeding out of full magazines just fine, and only exhibits problems with extraction on the last round out of any given magazine. What usually happens is that it will fling that last round either straight back towards my face, or straight up in the air, as opposed to back and to the right like the rest of the rounds. That’s problematic, and then during the last range session, this happened:

That’s a definite failure to extract, and I had no choice but to count that as a stoppage, because regardless of the …Read the Rest

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