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January 1, 2012
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I've had an intermittent misfire on my 15-2 when shooting double action. Backing off the grip screw, etc didn't fix it. So I bought a spring set and figured I should replace parts. That was a while ago, you know how it is. Anyway, I stripped it down last night and everything looked great, but I noticed that the cylinder aligning ball screw was backed out a couple of turns.
Everything else looked great. so I just cleaned and re-assembled it, making sure to cinch up that screw. An what do you know - it wus fixed.
So I'm at the range this morning and the guy in the next lane has a Les Baer custom 1911. So we got to talking, as you do. Apparently, the regular Les Baer is guaranteed to hold a 3 inch group at 50 yards, but if you buy the special, it's guaranteed to hold a 1.5 inch group at 50 yards. He had the special, and it cost him nineteen hunerd dollars.
We swapped guns. With Eric's 4 inch heavy barrel on the Dan, he shot a 2 inch group at 25 yards offhand out of the first cylinder full. I could tell he was impressed. Don't ever sell that that Dan Wesson he said.
His Les Baer was pretty sweet too.
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April 20, 2010
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Cool range story! Not often you can impress a Les Baer owner I bet.
That is a good find on the ball screw. If I remember right, Shoot recommends screwing it in until flush in his Average Joe thread. That screw is something we don't think of often when guys visit here with misfire issues.
-Lonwolf
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