One word: OUCH!!!
Here’s a video on my Springfield Armory 1911-A1, Mil Spec, great to have a replica of the World War II warhorse, but I can definitely do without the hammer bite.
That’s God’s way of telling you you’ve got sausage fingers! That’s like the 3rd of your videos I’ve run into today though, good stuff.
Thanks for the vids. Glad to see you help keep the M4C crowd grounded in milsurp videos! I have the same pistol as you for the same reasons, but fortunately I don’t have the hammer bite problem. Not sure if I just don’t grip high enough, or if I just don’t have a meaty web (sts), but the GI config works for me. I’ve replaced the ILS MSH, along with the bizarre spring weights (mainspring, recoil spring, and firing pin spring) and gone to a normal steel firing pin, to get mine closer to true 1911 config, too.
FWIW, it looks to me like you have the SA “GI” and not the “Mil Spec”. Even your printed description of the pistol at the beginning of the video doesn’t match the pistol you actually shoot in the video (e.g. angled slide serrations, lowered and flared ejection port, loaded chamber indicator, etc, describes the Mil Spec model and not the GI).
Depending on when you bought your pistol, when SA first introduced the model, it did have “Mil Spec” in the name, but dropped that phrase from the name (circa 2005?) to avoid confusion with the model with the ‘improvements’.
Helpful infographic on the differences between the two models:
SA GI
SA Mil Spec
Here’s a shot circa 2004 or one with the old naming scheme on the box:
Side question…how do you set up your camera to get the shots from your perspective looking downrange? I like the way those look!
Yes, sir, this is most certainly the case. It was very kind of you to post the comparative photos. I definitely have the GI version. Apparently they called it, at one point, the GI Mil Spec. So confusing!
I’m pretty sure this one may have been in the “GI Mil Spec” crowd, not sure. Anyway to know based on serial numbers?
Side question…how do you set up your camera to get the shots from your perspective looking downrange? I like the way those look!
Kind of you to say that, for it has led to a bit of grief from the shooting community. Here’s why. I have a heavy-duty tripod with a large rotating head on it for the camera. I set it up in such a way that I can stand directly behind it and reach both arms around and shoot my pistol. However in doing that I can’t get as good a grip on it as when I’m shooting without it, hence, my grip looks sometimes, pretty bad, and as a result I get guys saying, “You’re grip is all wrong!” etc.
But I do like the view and am working on improving it.