IMO, it's a very good pistol that was designed to be cheaply built using loose tolerances making it almost jam proof ~ an important thing in a close quarters weapon .

Thank you for the details on making it shoot better, my son has a national match grade one he bought some decades back when he asked me to teach him how to shoot .

I'd thought the poor accuracy thing was lack of close tolerance barrel bushings ~ shows how little I know .

He asked me to not buy a wheel gun when we were equipping him to study/learn/practice so I bought a Colt 1903 Pocket Automatic chambered in .32 caliber, thinking it would have significantly less recoil .

WRONG .

I went to a pawn shop and they had two, one looked like new but looking down the barrel with a bit of white paper (PO-boy borescope) showed it to be not only shot out but poorly maintained with pitting, the other one looked scruffy and had signs of external rust but the barrel and action was perfect so I pitched a ***** about how bad it looked and levered the price to my liking .

It turns out that not keeping up with your practice really is a thing, in two weeks my son was far more proficient than I'd even been, in time he took ownership of it .

Many mock the Colt 1911 .45, I think it's a pretty good tool that does exactly what it was designed to do even decades later and after minimal care .

Plus of course, when you run out of ammo you can ***** slap the hell out of the other guy with it.....

Firearms are tools, nothing more nothing less ~ don't waste time trying to impress others with your big gun, learn how to shoot it and mainatain it and always be careful, it's just like a chainsaw : useful but very dangerous if you're incautious .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better