With Colt offering more 1911’s like the ones from talo and the Rail Gun that are being carried as is or lightly customized, I am curious what type of accuracy you guys are getting from your stock Colt 1911 barrels at 25 yards?
For those that have a Colt 1911 with a stock barrel, please post the results of your 10 shot groups at 25 yards. If possible use a NRA B8 target.
Pics of the target are appreciated.
While I have no target to show you, I sent a stock colt to Clark custom for build into a bullseye gun. The have a solid fixture to test the accuracy of the factory barrel to see if it will meet standard or be replaced. They kept the colt barrel in the build and provided a 2 inch group 50 yard test target. Hand held group ( one handed iron sight bullseye) at 25 yards by me ( on my best day) ran 2 1/2 inches
I’m no expert but the dangerous North American Can is not safe at 25 yds. with any of my Colt 1911s.
How old are these barrels? not in rounds, but in year built?
All of my Colts have been around 3-4’’ guns (off hand). Interestingly enough, I have not noticed any difference between the NM and standard barrels. I probably don’t posses the skill necessary to see the difference. YMMV
I would like to know also.
Also please indicate the number of rounds fired to achieve the “group.” In my mind less than 5 doesn’t count and 10 is a better indicator.
Colt barrels are some of the most accurate barrels out there.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of a properly fitted Bushing to bring it out.
General statements like this do not even begin to answer the question asked.
What is your group size at 25 yards with at least 10 shots fired?
My info mentioned above stands. A 2 inch group at 50 yards of 10 shots with the colt factory barrel. I bought the base gun lightly used (colt 1991 series gun standard barrel) and put perhaps 200 rounds through gun prior to sending it off.
When I benched the gun at 25 with target wad cutters group ran between 1.5 and two inches, which is similar to my personal benched groups with my les Baer premier II with 1.5 inch build.
To compare I recently picked up a colt wwI repro with the tiny gi sights and the fit is pretty loose- rattles a bit when shook some side to side play in slide and a bushing easily removed by hand. Groups with 230 ball at 25 ran 3 inches.
These groups I shot were 8 shot groups, simply using one full mag as my yardstick
Thanks for the additional info on the WWI.
Any chance Clark did anything to fit the barrel in the 1991 like weld up the lugs?
Looking forward to other results.
Sounds like some good shooting.
I’ve been very happy with the stock barrel in my rail gun. I have not benched it yet but but I have had numerous experienced 1911 shooters comment on how accurate it was. I was all set to put a Kart in it when I sent it to MARS but Steve talked me out of it. He felt the factory barrel was a shooter.
If you could find time to put 10 rounds down range at 25 I would love to know what kind of accuracy you are getting with that Rail gun.
Dave - I have a barrel fixture, and a hand full of Colt 1911s w/ NM barrels that have a “lapped fit.”
Would be happy to do something for you. Which do you want? How many rounds in a group?
I will be using 200g LSWCs over 4.9g of Bullseye.
Which are you questioning, the accuracy of the barrels or the accuracy of the pistols? Those are 2 different tests.
I am most interested in how the barrels perform in the pistol.
On the bullseye gun they did some fitting but I saw no evidience of welding up the lugs
Shot these two groups yesterday. All shots were from 25 yards, rested hands and pistol on shooting bench and seated.
The six shots with the greasy black ragged holes in the 5 and 6 scoring rings were 230 grain handloaded rounds, about 775 fps.
The 5 shots in the black 7 to 9 rings were factory 230 gr. Speer hollow points.
As you can see the target was the 25 yd NRA slow fire pistol.
The yellow Best Buy card is standard credit card size shown for reference.
The gun was a new Colt series 70 repro with factory barrel and bushing. Barrel and gun has about 500 rounds through it, so it’s practically new.
Very nice, and thanks for the info and pic. Good shooting, too!
Thanks Dave. I think the gun is capable of better accuracy. My eye sight is not like it used to be. At 25 yards the black bullseye was a blur, so I wasn’t really sure which part of the blob I was really aiming at. I tried to aim at the center of the blob.