"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Of course that configuration isn't a tack driver but then the M1911 was
designed for close
in use. Longer distances, use a rife.

Wes

An accurized 1911 will shoot 2" groups at 50 yards. Mine would when I
inherited it (it's a 1941 M70 Colt-manufactured military model, never shot
before it was sold through the NRA, which my uncle had accurized around
1965). But it's gotten a little looser over the years.

As soon as you accurize them, like peen the frame rails to tighten up the
slide and such,
I doubt it would pass military acceptance tests.

Sure. I don't know how they do it now, but the rails of mine were peened; it
had a bullseye trigger job; and so on. This wears out eventually and they
get loose again. I've put a lot of rounds through mine.



I considered hunting javelina with it, but my SSM Ruger will shoot groups
about half that size (the gun can, but I can't. g).

If I want an accurate handgun I pick my revolvers or my T/C Contender
depending on use.

One of the gun magazines reported at the time that the SSM was the most
accurate revolver, out-of-the-box, that they had ever tested. It can shoot a
lot straighter than I can.

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Ed Huntress