Quote Originally Posted by CptnBlues63 View Post
Nice!

I bought a Para Ordnance GI Expert 1911 a few years ago. It had problems with factory ammo though. It wasn't loading them properly. I had been buying a lot of reloads using semi wad cutters and those loaded just fine so I never bothered doing anything about it but then the company I was buying the reloads from had a deal on the normal round nose leads and I bought 1000. I got frustrated (no less than one jam up per magazine and sometimes 2 or 3) and called PO. They had me ship it to their repair depot here in Canada and it was fixed for free. It's a nice shooter with a smooth trigger and now that it doesn't jam on loading anymore, I've been really happy with it.

I have a old 1911 barrel somewhere that i used to use to test feed problems.
I got the barrel form my company arms room clerk back in 1984 it was shot out and well used.

any time some one had a feed problem we swamped out the barrel and if it chambered fine we knew it was a feed ramp problem.
Feed ramps are easy to fix with a drimel tool and polishing wheel next we used 000 steel wool and a drill at low speed on a cleaning rod/brush to polish the inside of the barrel where the case fits. total cast around $1 to fix

We rarely got issued a new 45's back in the 80's but when we did they all needed a little polishing to be reliable.